Hulu Joins Netflix and Amazon In Promoting Royalty-free Video Codec AV1 (fiercecable.com)

Posted by msmash on Tuesday July 4, 2017 @07:04AM from the together-at-last dept.

theweatherelectric writes: Hulu has joined the Alliance for Open Media, which is developing an open, royalty-free video format called AV1. AV1 is targeting better performance than H.265 and, unlike H.265, will be licensed under royalty-free terms for all use cases. The top three over-the-top SVOD services (Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu) are now all members of the alliance. In joining the alliance, Hulu hopes "to accelerate development and facilitate friction-free adoption of new media technologies that benefit the streaming media industry and [its] viewers."

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AV1 is interesting by Anonymous Coward · 2017-07-04 07:38 · Score: 2, Funny

but I'm going to wait for AV2
Re:go away by Luthair · 2017-07-04 09:28 · Score: 4, Funny

I like my movies encoded in RealMedia, they're warmer and the buffering adds to the experience of watching digital video.