> so I decided to try out the proposal that appeared the most interesting: the Samsung+BBC proposal (A124), which claims compression improvements of around 40%.

> so I decided to try out the proposal that appeared the most interesting: the Samsung+BBC proposal (A124), which claims compression improvements of around 40%. At first I read this and couldn't believe it. A 40% improvement! Wow! But reading the rest of the article, it's disappointing to see that it's not a practical %40... Makes me wonder if GPUs could be used to do the encode and speed it up enough to make it practical (maybe within a few generations of GPUs..). After all, you have to aim for where computers will be by the time this becomes a standard, not where they are now.