NHK and Mitsubishi Develop 8K HEVC Encoder

NHK and Mitsubishi Electric announced that the companies have jointly developed the world’s first HEVC encoder for Super Hi-Vision 8K Ultra HDTV.

ITU Gives Thumbs Up to H.265 Video Compression Standard

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) announced that one of its technical study groups has given first-stage approval to the H.265 (ISO/IEC 23008-2) High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) video compression standard.