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<span style="font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;
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height="63" width="105" align="left">If you've
been waiting with bated breath for the successor
to the H.264 video codec, wait no more! On the
other hand, if you think you couldn't care less,
let us phrase that a bit differently: a new video
standard known as High Efficiency Video Coding
(H.265) should provide high-quality streaming
video, even on low-bandwidth networks. This new
video format was approved last week by the
International Telecommunication Union, the United
Nations agency for information and communication
technology issues. And if you're like many public
libraries, your network is probably getting
slammed right now by streaming video, so this
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://news.techeye.net/internet/un-telecommunications-agency-backs-h-265">UN
Telecommunications agency backs H.265</a>
(TechEye/Nick Farrell) "Official endorsement by
the International Telecoms Union (ITU) is seen
as important to getting worldwide adoption for
the standard. The ITU said that the codec would
pave the way for 'the next wave of innovation,'
such as faster movie downloads and
higher-quality video streaming. 'HEVC will lead
to a brand new era of innovation with video
broadcasting, one that spans the entire
communication technology spectrum, including
Ultra HD (4K) TV and mobile devices,' said the
ITU in a statement."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.slashgear.com/new-h-265-video-format-approved-high-quality-video-at-lower-bitrates-27266856/">New
H.265 video format approved: high-quality
video at lower bitrates</a> (SlashGear/Craig
Lloyd) "The hope is that H.265 will enable
services to stream full 1080p HD video using
half as many bits as required normally, which
should make streaming HD video much easier,
especially on data connections using smartphones
and tablets. As far as 4K goes, it's said that
4K streaming could be easily possible with a 20
Mbps internet connection using H.265."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.fiercetelecom.com/story/itu-gives-first-stage-approval-new-mpeg-successor-hevc/2013-01-28">ITU
gives first-stage approval of new MPEG
successor, HEVC</a> (FierceTelecom/Dan O'Shea)
"The high efficiency coding standard has been in
the works for some time, and resulted from
collaboration between the Motion Picture Experts
Group and the ITU's Video Experts Group. It will
succeed H.264/MPEG-4, and the ITU's progress
comes at a key time for the market. That's
because mobile video has been exploding in
recent years, increasing bandwidth availability
concerns even as the industry adopts 4G."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/25/h265-is-approved/">Paving
the way for high-quality video on
low-bandwidth networks</a> (TechCrunch/Ryan
Lawler) "While there will likely be
software-based encoders available by the end of
the year, the codec won't see mass adoption
until it gets embedded into chips and hardware.
It could be 12 to 18 months, maybe longer,
before the first devices with H.265 hardware
acceleration make it to market. Once those
initial devices do make it to market, however,
we can probably expect a quick ramp up in the
amount of content that begins to take advantage
of H.265."</li>
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fact:</em></strong></small><br>
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;">H.264/MPEG-4
was used for less than 10% of video transmissions
before Apple chose to use it for the iPad. Now 84%
of streaming video is published in H.264 format.
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