DIRECTV demonstrated its first live MPEG-4 AVC/DVB-S2 HD transmission via satellite at the 2005 International Consumer Electronics Show. The new standard in transmission and video compression was ...

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I'd like to call it H.265, because it sounds cool, but its full name is High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC). It's the new successor to Advanced Video Coding (AVC), also known as H.264, which is one of ...