Samsung is being sued by MPEG LA, a licensing body that holds the patents for the HEVC codec among others. According to the complaint (via Business Wire), Samsung was both a licensor and licensee from ...

In the recent WWDC keynote, Apple touted their new and improved codec, HEVC (H.265), claiming the same quality with half the file size, or better quality with the same size. OK, but the real question ...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Access Advance LLC (“Advance”) is pleased to welcome HP Inc. (“HP”) as a Licensee to the HEVC Advance Patent Pool. The PC industry continues to experience widespread HEVC ...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Access Advance today announced that Amazon, a major consumer electronics maker, along with Dell and Lenovo PC, two of the leading world-wide PC makers, have joined the HEVC ...

A court decision in Germany has temporarily blocked Acer and ASUS from selling certain PCs directly in the country, following ...

At the center of the case is the widely used video compression standard HEVC, also known as H.265. Nokia owns several standard-essential patents tied to the ...

NEW PROVIDENCE, N.J.—Content distributors might play follow the leader after Apple made the announcement that in June 2017 that it would be using HEVC-encoded video to the HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) ...

It’s easy to imagine the deployment of HEVC as a case study in business and technology schools about how not to launch a technology. Not only do you have a launch cycle that clearly limited adaption, ...

There’s a codec race underway between HEVC and AV1, and recent events are making it even more interesting. Today, HEVC, the incumbent codec, is supported by more than 2 billion devices including ...

If you own a Windows PC as well as a recent iPhone, the U.S. government wants you to open the Windows Store today and make sure that you have the most recent version of the HEVC video codec. The U.S.