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"...Netflix doesn't need...ten years of drafting standards..." When do you think standards work started on HEVC? When do you think NHK were first demonstrating
by josephlord 12y ago
"...Netflix doesn't need...ten years of drafting standards..."
When do you think standards work started on HEVC? When do you think NHK were first demonstrating UHDTV?
They were both being worked on by 2004 and much of the research work will have preceeded that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Video_Coding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Video_Coding
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_High_Definition_Television https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_High_Definition_Televisi...
- te_platt 12y agoGood point. And I'm sure Netflix engineers had a certain amount of internal bureaucracy to deal with as well. The point I was trying make was just that it's easier now to make a change like this than what had to be done in previous iterations.
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