New High Speed Video Format Set To Save Streaming Costs While Delivering Fast 8K – ChannelNews

A brand-new high speed, high quality video format could save consumers, broadband costs while delivering faster streaming of content for providers such as Netflix, Foxtel, and Binge, it also opens the door for 8K streaming by TV networks.
The new format will also make it possible for people with slow connections to stream footage in higher quality than before, without pauses for buffering.
Called both H.266 and Versatile Video Coding (VVC) the new format, which is backed by several big players including Apple, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Ericsson, Intel, and several leading TV brands was announced by Germany’s Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute overnight.
It hopes that in time, smartphones and other cameras will be able to automatically record and play back footage in the format.
At this stage, the codec will not be available until new processors have been manufactured with the codec built in.
In the interim, recordings will need to be re-encoded to take advantage of the extra compression made possible by the new video structure.
Developers claim that H.266 is designed to require half the bitrate – the amount of data transmitted per second – as today’s standard H.265.
The H.265 codec itself halved the bitrate requirement of its predecessor H.264, which is still widely in use.
“H.265 requires about 10 gigabytes of data to transmit a 90-minute ultra-high definition

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