Considering just picture compression, MPEG-4 does slightly better than MPEG-2, but not sufficiently better to warrant obsoleting the latter. MPEG-2 is well established in broadcast production and ...
Digital video currently follows the MPEG-2 standard, but improvements in image processing technology are set to move MPEG-4 to the forefront of video compression. Millions of DVD disks, satellite ...
RealNetworks on Monday said it will support a new open standard for digital video and audio in a surprise move that could pave the way for greater interoperability in the notoriously fragmented ...
Is MPEG-4 video technology the next big thing? Apple Computer's Steve Jobs thinks so. On Tuesday the company released a public preview of QuickTime 6, Apple's proprietary media player. What was ...
Imagine watching Gladiator— not in the movie theater but over an Internet protocol (IP) network on a Web-enabled device. Very possibly you conjure up an image of herky-jerky video, but consider that ...
The Motion Pictures Expert Group has issued a new video standards draft that promises to deliver twice the video quality at the same size, or alternatively, identical video quality at half the data ...
Apple Computer has rejected proposed licensing terms for the emerging MPEG-4 video standard, leaving the future of its QuickTime multimedia technology in limbo. At a company-sponsored conference ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. If you can't see the horse racing on Channel 78, your old TV or set-top box probably doesn't support the new MPEG-4 broadcast standard.
Coming so soon after MPEG-1 and MPEG-2, MPEG-4 raises a number of questions. Will it replace MPEG-2? Does it make existing equipment obsolete? How does it affect the broadcast industry? To answer ...