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 […]
Zetacast was pleased to support Samsung at the 110th meeting of MPEG and 19th meeting of JCT-VC, held from 17 to 24 October 2014 in Strasbourg, France. This meeting started to consider the eventual successor to the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard, by including a brainstorming panel discussion to explore use cases, requirements and […]
It’s September, so as usual Zetacast was in Amsterdam to participate in IBC, the International Broadcasting Convention. A total of 55,092 people from 170 countries visited IBC this year, the largest ever level of attendance. Zetacast’s Ken McCann presented a paper at the IBC technical conference, describing the collaborative work on HEVC verification testing that had […]
Zetacast supported Samsung at the 109th meeting of MPEG and 18th meeting of JCT-VC, held from 30 June to 11 July 2014 in Sapporo, Japan. This meeting marked the completion of work on version 2 of the HEVC standard. HEVC v2 comprises three amendments to extend the functionality of HEVC v1, which was completed in […]
On 3 July 2014 the DVB Steering Board approved a new version of TS 101 154, the DVB specification for the use of Video and Audio Coding in Broadcasting Applications based on the Transport Stream. This specification was prepared by the DVB TM-AVC group, chaired by Zetacast’s Ken McCann. The new specification has been passed […]
Zetacast supported Samsung at the 108th meeting of MPEG and the 17th meeting of JCT-VC, held in Valencia from 27 March to 4 April 2014. This meeting finalised the work on Range Extensions of HEVC, to extend colour sampling from 4:2:0 to 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 formats and to extend data representation to greater than 10 bit […]
DVB World was held in the picturesque city of Prague on 10-12 March 2014. Zetacast’s Ken McCann gave a presentation that explained the main features of High Efficiency Coding (HEVC) and described how it is being incorporated into the DVB suite of standards. His presentation included an update on “McCann’s Law”, a prediction that the […]
On 10-11 March, Zetacast supported Microsoft in the second EU Innovation Convention organised by the European Commission DG for Research and Innovation, in collaboration with DG Connect, as part of the Innovation Union Initiative. The event was hosted by Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, Commissioner for Research and Innovation, and attracted over 2,000 policy and decision makers, academics and […]
Zetacast helped to represent Samsung at the 107th meeting of MPEG and the 16th meeting of JCT-VC, held in San José in California from 9 to 17 January 2014. MPEG is the Moving Picture Experts Group of ISO/IEC, more formally designated ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11, which has been developing various standards for the coded representation of video, […]
Zetacast is a founder member of the Digital Interoperability Forum (DIF), formed in 2003. To mark ten years of activity, we worked with other DIF members to create the event “Celebrating a decade of innovation, investment, competition and consumer choice – and a look to the future”, on Wednesday 27 November in the Bibliothèque Solvay […]
