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HEVC was the first available codec that could handle 4K and especially HDR well, so HEVC is universal in HDR-capable devices. That caused very rapid and nearly universal HEVC support in consumer electronics (TVs, streaming media players, mobile devices); its adoption was much faster and more...

Well, Theora might work well in the Ogg container, but it is also a fork of the nearly 30 years old VP3 codec (as in five generations before the venerable VP8, with AV1 itself effectively VP10; the first versions were mostly prototype VP10 code from Google). As a codec, Theora's quality is well...

A very important thing to remember: Security that succeeds 99.9% of the time is a catastrophe Hack attempts that succeed 0.1% of the time are a catastrophe "Never failing" versus "Not always failing" is a profound asymmetry which truly defines the game.

It would be nice if things would work out that way. But the point of the article is that companies who thought they had properly licensed the technology are now getting sued post-facto for prior and ongoing use now that they have incorporated the technology in their business. That's the whole...

This graphic could be useful: It shows which companies are inside and outside the various patent pools. Note Nokia and Interdigital, who were called out for being litigious, aren't affiliated with a patent pool. So a company who in good faith pays the pools their fees isn't covered, and any...

If it is an issue in the production truck, as stated, it would have impacted any OTA broadcasts as well. All distribution (OTA, cable, sat, streaming) is downstream of the production truck, and all use the same feed.

A minute or so? For a concert, sure. But not for sports. It is really annoying to hear your neighbors celebrating a goal you don't get to find out about for another 50 seconds. A truly humongous amount of technical innovation has gone into getting broadcast latency of streaming down to the...

Simple? Are you referring to drop or non-drop ;)? Time code could have been simple, but the way we introduced color TV in a way backwards compatible to black and white involved reducing our nice integer 30 frames per second broadcasts to 30/1.001 ~29.97 frames a second, which has made all kinds...

The broadcast truck is where they make the broadcast. This is upstream of the public internet. These things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Production_truck

Bad enough weather can disrupt watching Dish. TV has a 99.999% uptime, which is very impressive. But with so many channels, those 0.001% of failures still happen every day.

You're entirely right if this was a downstream problem. But if it is a technical failure in the production truck, buffers etcetera don't apply. Something broke that prevented them from actually combining all the live inputs into the video feed. A good production truck will have redundancy; if...

You're getting downvoted by people who don't understand what you mean. It isn't any different with how OTA works if it is a production truck issue.

Showing things when they happen is pretty much the definition of "Live TV." If this is a production truck issue, that means that there wasn't a live feed coming out of the truck. The truck is where they take input from dozens of cameras at the stadium, the talking heads, the graphics, and...

Compared to who else's 1080p60 HDR streaming sports service?

As Adam Smith, the moral philosopher who defined capitalism said: Capitalists tend to kowtow to Adam Smith, but it's not clear how many have read him. Or at least didn't read his warnings as a how-to guide.

The takeaway from this may be that "general purpose AI models fail in a highly competitive market where bespoke AI is likely a significant factor." Given the size of the sport betting market, there is no way that we're not already seeing a good number of bets made with AI assistance, and those...

Porting those emulators over would be pretty trivial. They're already running on the same instruction set on lower power hardware in a Windows fork. All the 1p games already run on Windows. But all 3p Xbox One and up games on Windows would be a project. "The hardware is already there" may be...

Good point. If Sony (and Microsoft?) have locked in their SoC RAM prices with TSMC for their next gen, we could see the consoles selling for less than a good GPU. Apple could also be in a very competitive position for a few years for the same reason. It's the spot market where things will be the...

That's really a huge problem with VR. The experience is that you're looking out in a 3D space you can maneuver in. Which is basically a mouse or a game console rendering something in 3D. VR just replaces the thumb stick or mouse with your head for controlling what the view is looking at. And...

Sony had quite a lot to do with Homecoming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man:_Homecoming#Development