Zetacast was pleased to support Microsoft at the third meeting of the Steering Committee of the Game Console Voluntary Agreement (VA), which was held in Brussels on 1 December 2016. The Steering Committee includes representatives from the European Commission together with the three game console industry signatories: Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony Computer Entertainment. The 2016 […]
As usual in September, Zetacast was in Amsterdam for IBC, the International Broadcasting Convention. A total of 55,796 people from more than 160 countries visited IBC 2016, the highest ever level of attendance. There were 1,800 companies exhibiting and ultra high definition displays were everywhere, with High Dynamic Range (HDR) as the most prominent new […]
Zetacast was pleased to support Microsoft at the second meeting of the Steering Committee of the Game Console Voluntary Agreement (VA), which was held in Brussels on 3 June 2016. The Steering Committee includes representatives from the European Commission together with the three game console industry signatories: Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony Computer Entertainment. The first […]
Zetacast participated in the 114th meeting of MPEG, held in San Diego, California, from 22 to 26 February 2016. This was the first meeting at which the investigation of High Dynamic Range (HDR) video was fully transferred to the Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC), the combined activity of MPEG and ITU-T Study Group […]
Zetacast was pleased to support Microsoft at the first meeting of the Steering Committee of the Game Console Voluntary Agreement in Brussels on 3 December 2015. The Steering Committee includes representatives from the European Commission and the game console industry signatories: Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony Computer Entertainment. The Voluntary Agreement contains industry commitments on minimum […]
Zetacast participated in the 113th meeting of MPEG, held in Geneva from 19 to 23 October 2015. A workshop on Future Video Coding Applications and Technologies was held during this meeting, with the aim of gathering information to guide future codec standardisation beyond High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC). The workshop included presentations on new video […]
As usual in September, Zetacast was in Amsterdam to participate in IBC, the International Broadcasting Convention. A total of 55,128 people from more than 170 countries visited IBC 2015, the largest ever level of attendance. There were 1,800 companies exhibiting and impressive looking Ultra HD displays were everywhere, with High Dynamic Range (HDR) as the […]
Zetacast welcomes the European Commission’s announcement on 22 April 2015 that it will recognise the industry voluntary agreement on minimum energy efficiency levels for game consoles. This decision should benefit both consumers and the environment, by achieving the policy objectives set out by the EU’s Ecodesign Directive more quickly and cost-effectively than mandatory requirements. It […]
Zetacast was pleased to support Microsoft at the European Commission’s “Workshop on Spectrum Sharing by Using Geo-location Databases”, held in Brussels on 20 March 2015. Due to the increasing demand for spectrum in many sectors, there is a growing need to use spectral resource more efficiently. The use of spectrum sharing techniques such as TV […]
Zetacast participated in the 111th meeting of MPEG, held from 16 to 20 February 2015 in Geneva. This MPEG meeting issued a Call for Evidence to investigate the potential for tools that could improve the performance of High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) for video content with high dynamic range. There are three possible categories of […]
