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November 1, 2021 | 14:00

Inscryption Review

Welcome challenger. Why not sit down, and play a little game?

October 27, 2021 | 12:05

SilentiumPC Regnum RG6V TG Case Review

Budget in price, mainstream in aspiration.

October 21, 2021 | 09:43

AOMedia launches open-source AV1 Ultra HD codec

Claims a 30 percent improvement.

March 29, 2018 | 11:51

MPEG announces HEVC codec, halves video bitrates

MPEG has announced the HEVC codec, which halves video bitrate without harming quality.

August 15, 2012 | 10:57

Microsoft drops DVD support from Windows 8

Windows 8 will not include DVD playback, Microsoft has confirmed, unless users buy the Media Centre Pack.

May 4, 2012 | 10:39

Google targets JPEG with WebP

Google has launched a new VP8 implementation, this time aimed at still images.

October 1, 2010 | 08:31

MPEG LA to offer free H.264 licences

The MPEG LA has revoked its deadline, meaning H.264 is now free for streaming services.

August 27, 2010 | 10:12

WebM codec 'outperforms' H.264

Tests of Google's WebM video codec by a videoconference firm show it beating H.264.

August 25, 2010 | 10:16

VLC 1.1.0 adds GPU acceleration

The latest release of the VLC Player brings hardware decoding of H.264 video to some platforms.

June 23, 2010 | 10:33

WebM support confirmed in Firefox 4

The next version of Firefox - possibly due later this month - will support Google's WebM codec.

June 10, 2010 | 10:51

Sonic Solutions announces DivX buy

Sonic Solutions has announced a $323 million deal to buy video compression specialist DivX.

June 3, 2010 | 10:34

Intel hints at WebM acceleration

Intel has hinted that if Google's WebM codec takes off it could add acceleration to its Atom processors.

May 28, 2010 | 10:31

Mozilla offers grant to develop Ogg

The Mozilla Foundation has put the Wikimedia Foundation in charge of a $100,000 grant to improve the Ogg Theora and Vorbis media codecs.

January 28, 2009 | 13:04

Intel says video encoding belongs on the CPU

COMPUTEX 2008: Intel and Nvidia are still sitting in a tree in their war of facts and friction. Intel says video encoding is better on the CPU.

June 4, 2008 | 14:47

DivX support to be added to the PS3

DivX and Sony are officially partnering up to get support for the popular video codec in the PlayStation 3 in the near future. Good news all round!

November 14, 2007 | 11:26

DTS Demonstrates Master HD Audio

COMPUTEX 2007: We sat down (on a towel) and DTS showed us a demonstration of Master HD: the new lossless codec used on HD media.

June 12, 2007 | 15:03

Doubts over HD DVD support in Vista

HD DVD drives will work just fine in Vista, but Microsoft has confessed that users may have to buy 3rd party plugins for movie playback. Is this Media Center all over again?

March 16, 2006 | 12:40

Changing the definition

The US is way ahead of Europe when it comes to tomorrow’s entertainment technology, but that doesn’t mean you can’t build it for yourself.

May 17, 2004 | 01:00

MSI MPG Velox 100R Chassis Review

October 14 2021 | 15:04