IBC 2021 was initially postponed from September to December, then the in-person event was cancelled altogether. The IBC Partnership Board made this decision following growing concerns about the COVID-19 situation in The Netherlands, which deteriorated in the weeks immediately prior to the planned 3-6 December conference and exhibition in Amsterdam. IBC20201 proceeded as a purely […]

Zetacast participated in the 134th meeting of MPEG, which was held online as a virtual meeting from 26 to 30 April 2021. It had originally been planned to hold this meeting in Geneva, but this plan had to be changed due to the difficulty of holding physical meetings during the COVID-19 pandemic. The development of […]

Zetacast participated in the 133rd meeting of MPEG, which was held online as a virtual meeting from 11 to 15 January 2021. It had previously been planned to hold this meeting in Cape Town, South Africa, but the plan had to be changed due to the difficulty of holding physical meetings during the COVID-19 pandemic. […]

Zetacast participated in the 132nd meeting of MPEG, which took place from 12 to 16 October 2020. Due to the difficulties caused by COVID-19, this was held online as a virtual meeting. This was the first meeting of MPEG following the re-organisation of its working groups (WGs) and advisory groups (AGs). Some of the activities […]

IBC 2020 was cancelled, amid coronavirus uncertainty and safety concerns. For the first time in decades there was no September trip to Amsterdam for Zetacast. A virtual IBC event was created in its place – but it really wasn’t the same as a physical event with over 56,000 participants. For information on the IBC 2020 […]

Zetacast participated in the 131st MPEG meeting, which took place from 29 June to 3 July 2020. Like MPEG 130, this was held online as a virtual meeting. A major outcome of the meeting was the finalization of Versatile Video Coding (VVC) standard, which will be published by ITU-T as H.266 and by ISO/IEC as […]

Zetacast was pleased to support Samsung at the 128th MPEG meeting, which was held in Geneva in October 2019. At this meeting MPEG promoted ISO/IEC 23094-1 Essential Video Coding, informally known as MPEG-5 EVC, to the Draft International Standard (DIS) stage of ISO/IEC standardization. The goal of MPEG-5 EVC is to provide a standardized video […]

As usual in September, Zetacast was in Amsterdam for IBC, the International Broadcasting Convention. In this year’s conference, Zetacast’s Ken McCann chaired a Tech Talk on Encoding Immersion. As we strive to immerse our audience using ever finer detail, new video coding tools are required to represent the information efficiently. This session included three papers […]

Zetacast was pleased to support Samsung at the 127th MPEG meeting, held in Gothenburg from 8 to 12 July 2019. At this meeting MPEG promoted ISO/IEC 23094-1 Essential Video Coding, informally known as MPEG-5 EVC, to the Committee Draft stage of ISO/IEC standardization. The goal of MPEG-5 EVC is to provide a standardized video coding […]

Zetacast paticipated in the 126th MPEG meeting, which was held in Geneva from 25 to 29 March 2019. This meeting further developed the new standard known as MPEG-5 Essential Video Coding (EVC). MPEG-5 EVC aims to provide a standardized video coding solution to address business needs in use cases, such as video streaming, where HEVC […]