Tidal was in the high-resolution music streaming game long before such newcomers as Amazon and Apple, and its format of choice has historically been MQA, a lossy but incredibly efficient high-res ...

Early this year, Sony, Universal and Warner Bros. movie studios chose Dolby Digital Plus as their preferred means to deliver surround sound for their UltraViolet common file format (CFF) downloads.

Google's plan to open-source the VP8 video codec it acquired when it purchased a company called On2 hasn't exactly been a secret, and the company's finally made it official today as part of a new ...

Renesas Electronics Corporation has developed and will start supply of a multi-format video codec hardware IP product that supports low-delay processing for automotive information terminals that ...

Glenn S. Pedersen, senior business developer at TV 2 Sumo in Norway, converted from Windows Media to Silverlight in late 2008. Pedersen says the response from TV 2’s viewers was "very positive. We ...

Protocom has chosen to hard-wire the video and ADPCM (adaptive-differential pulse-code-modulation) audio-encoding capabilities of its $19 (100,000) GoldenReel PR828 device, along with the incremental ...

Apple first introduced its own lossless audio compression format, Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC), in 2004 with iTunes 4.5. This Thursday—seven years later—the company made the code for its encoder ...

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.—SMPTE has joined with Avid to publish a new standard for the VC-3 codec in Interoperable Master Format (IMF). The VC-3 standard, a codec implementation that Avid provides under the ...