He added an update an hour later that read: “We’re coming back, though it may take a bit of time for everything to be fully back to normal.” The outage appeared to have affected more than 14,000 users ...

You don’t notice good video compression—until it’s not there. For years, people have streamed high-resolution video without thinking about the tech behind it. But when companies clash over which ...

The takeaway: For years, the industry has touted AV1 as the codec capable of sidestepping the royalty and litigation thicket surrounding HEVC. Now, a new lawsuit from Dolby Laboratories against Snap ...

Streaming codec adoption used to be an engineering abstraction governed by RD curves, BD-Rate tables, and road map slides that no one outside of R&D ever considered. Over the last 15 months, codec ...

Vivo has confirmed that the upcoming X300 Ultra will support the APV codec. This follows in the footsteps of the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra, which was the first device to support the feature. The APV ...

Samsung has confirmed that the Galaxy S26 Ultra is the first phone to support the APV codec. This codec enables “visually lossless” video capture quality, even after repeated editing. Samsung will ...

NBC 5 Responds to an Instagram user who lost access to his account. He believes he was banned by mistake, but he couldn’t reach anyone at the social media company for help. He’s not alone. A ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. HP and Dell has disabled support for the High-Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard in some of their laptops, Ars Technica reports. HEVC is ...

Some Dell and HP laptop owners have been befuddled by their machines’ inability to play HEVC/H.265 content in web browsers, despite their machines’ processors having integrated decoding support.