Access Advance LLC and Alibaba Group today announced that Alibaba has joined the Access Advance Video Distribution Patent Pool (VDP Pool) as a Licensee, securing a license to the pool's comprehensive ...

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Can we go back to basics? We habitually add to Daily Links, typically under "Software Patents", reports about the EPO granting and sometimes invalidating (mea culpa!) software patents which relate to ...

Compare top noise cancelling headphones in 2026, focusing on Sony XM6 ANC, Bose comfort, and AirPods Max ecosystem, with clear insights on sound, codecs, price, and battery. Bose - Official website ...

You don’t notice good video compression—until it’s not there. For years, people have streamed high-resolution video without thinking about the tech behind it. But when companies clash over which ...

On March 23, 2026, Dolby filed a lawsuit against Snap, the developer and operator of Snapchat, alleging that Snapchat's video conversion, encoding, and decoding processes infringe on Dolby's patents.

Streaming codec adoption used to be an engineering abstraction governed by RD curves, BD-Rate tables, and road map slides that no one outside of R&D ever considered. Over the last 15 months, codec ...

B&H has posted up Part 01 of a new series called Everything You Need to Know About Video Codecs. If you have ever wondered about how codecs work and why they are needed, then this video does a pretty ...

Being able to wirelessly connect headphones and speakers to your phone or computer is a magic many of us take for granted. It wasn't that long ago that the idea seemed impossibly futuristic. These ...

This tool recursively searches a directory for video files using codecs that are considered less than state-of-the-art (anything other than AV1, HEVC/H.265, or H.264/AVC). It outputs a CSV with the ...