[opendtv] Re: TV Technology: Successor to HEVC Good News for Hi-Resolution Video
- From: "Craig Birkmaier" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "brewmastercraig" for DMARC)
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2020 09:06:26 -0400
On Jul 8, 2020, at 11:22 PM, Manfredi (US), Albert E
<albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Announcements like this one perhaps explain why MPEG is no longer needed?
Many codecs have been developed outside of MPEG, even if some have been
adopted by MPEG in one of their standards (and others never were). There are
also alternatives to MPEG-2 TS, for synchronous delivery of video packets.
Hard to keep up with the speed of innovation, though. Thinking back at an old
Pentium 100 I had, that ultimately couldn't keep up with H.264. We seem to
keep going through the same cycles.
MPEG has not been needed for a very long time. Yet MPEG-2 still dominates in
broadcasting and many MVPD systems. Part of this is due to MPEG-2 being in the
tight place at the right time, And part due to the amortization of the deployed
base. Interlaced 625 line “ITU-601” Is still commonplace in Europe.
It should be no surprise that these codecs keep evolving to improve efficiency
as memory and computational power continue to follow Moore’s Law. THis has also
been driven by the desire of the video manufacturers to push higher resolution
acquisition and display standards. But we may be close to the end of this
story. The audio industry went through all of this many decades ago; “good
enough” eventually stalled the development of “higher resolution” audio
standards.
The other major story here is that the companies that utilize these standards
have joined together to create an AFFORDABLE solution, rather than the MPEG era
royalty pools.
h.264 has dominated video streaming, and it looks like 266 may well be the
successor.
Regards
Craig
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