Consider the progress we have made since the early origins of digital video when MPEG-1 was introduced. Video codecs for digital broadcast and distribution all descend from that common heritage.

The iPhone maker becomes the last of tech's biggest companies to endorse compression technology designed to go easy on your data plan. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

Unlike other video conversion software, Videos Smaller is offered with clear intent. The Videos Smaller mostly focuses on reducing the size of the video. Before we begin, I would like to mention that ...

Because video clips are made up of sequences of individual images, or “frames,” video compression algorithms share many concepts and techniques with still-image compression algorithms. Therefore, we ...

PACIFIC PALISADES, CALIF.—For this month’s blog, I thought we’d go over mezzanine video compression. It’s become a hot topic again, especially in the area of moving real time video over IP networks.

Even though nowadays you are mostly trying to directly stream the video content, there are still big advantages of just downloading it to your phone. For starters because in many countries unlimited ...

To wrap up our recent series of articles on VESA video compression codecs, this month we will look at the use of video compression on digital display interfaces, using the DisplayPort 1.4 standard as ...

Anyone who was lucky enough to secure a Gmail invite back in early 2004 would have gasped in wonder at the storage on offer, a whole gigabyte! Nearly two decades later there’s more storage to be had ...