No. HEVC provides similar image-quality at half the bitrates as H.264, so that'd automatically make it much more appealing for e.g. streaming-services -- think of Netflix, YouTube, Twitch, Justin.tv and so on and so forth. On the other hand, HEVC would provide much higher image-quality if you used the same bitrates as for H.264, which would make such content much more appealing to end-users. I, for example, am often annoyed by the banding and compression-artifacting with e.g. Netflix, but if they switched over to HEVC and just used otherwise the same bitrates I'd be getting much clearer picture. Basically, HEVC allows you to save in bandwidth or storage or allows you to improve quality. All of these are very good reasons to upgrade from H.264
Most people have hardware where you can't tell the difference between HD and Full HD video. If you want to save bandwidth you watch the lower resolution version. H264 has become the MP3 of video. Only cinephiles and audiophiles will know the difference.
I propose the next planetary mission consist of twins, like the Voyager probes, the first probe does the preliminary survey, while the second focuses on the points of interest discovered by the first. I'm not a rocket scientist but different flight paths should allow one probe to arrive months or even years ahead of its twin.
Pluto is -233 degrees Celsius right? Therefore if there was an alien civilization living on the surface, they would need to use materials that could withstand the awesome cold there. If we went there would a spacesuit not freeze solid and shatter like glass? What materials could stay in one piece in this cold? I think that an alien with Helium II blood could live there, but what could sustain it?
Or they could light a fire and roast marshmallows around the forge. Seriously, lifeforms might exist at such cold temperatures, but a race of ice giants belongs to myth. Thinking beings require warmth and calories to burn.
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No. HEVC provides similar image-quality at half the bitrates as H.264, so that'd automatically make it much more appealing for e.g. streaming-services -- think of Netflix, YouTube, Twitch, Justin.tv and so on and so forth. On the other hand, HEVC would provide much higher image-quality if you used the same bitrates as for H.264, which would make such content much more appealing to end-users. I, for example, am often annoyed by the banding and compression-artifacting with e.g. Netflix, but if they switched over to HEVC and just used otherwise the same bitrates I'd be getting much clearer picture. Basically, HEVC allows you to save in bandwidth or storage or allows you to improve quality. All of these are very good reasons to upgrade from H.264
Most people have hardware where you can't tell the difference between HD and Full HD video. If you want to save bandwidth you watch the lower resolution version. H264 has become the MP3 of video. Only cinephiles and audiophiles will know the difference.
Don't forget the Soviet version the Tupolev Tu-144, which had its first test flight before the Concorde.
Are there any sites that still use Flash to serve useful web content?
I propose the next planetary mission consist of twins, like the Voyager probes, the first probe does the preliminary survey, while the second focuses on the points of interest discovered by the first. I'm not a rocket scientist but different flight paths should allow one probe to arrive months or even years ahead of its twin.
Pluto is -233 degrees Celsius right? Therefore if there was an alien civilization living on the surface, they would need to use materials that could withstand the awesome cold there. If we went there would a spacesuit not freeze solid and shatter like glass? What materials could stay in one piece in this cold? I think that an alien with Helium II blood could live there, but what could sustain it?
Or they could light a fire and roast marshmallows around the forge. Seriously, lifeforms might exist at such cold temperatures, but a race of ice giants belongs to myth. Thinking beings require warmth and calories to burn.
It could be an optical illusion like the Face on Mars or it could be like Saturn's hexagonal storms.