If you're looking to extend your PC to be able to play video files in the HEVC format, you may have to shell out a little change. As initially spotted by Michael West on Twitter, Microsoft is charging ...

Three licensors of the Via LA HEVC Patent Pool (M&K Holdings, Gensquare, and Tagivan II) have filed a patent infringement suit against Microsoft in the Landgericht Duesseldorf court in Germany, ...

SANTA CLARA, California-- April 9, 2018 -- Ittiam Systems, a leading provider of advanced video and visual analytics solutions, announced that it has licensed its i265 HEVC Codec to Microsoft Azure to ...

Plenty of patents are involved in HEVC, the leading technology contender for compressing 4K video. Several big names still haven't signed up for an effort to ease licensing. Stephen Shankland worked ...

BOSTON, Dec. 24, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Access Advance, an independent licensing administrator, today announced that Microsoft, a global technology leader, has become a Licensor and Licensee of the HEVC ...

This legal dispute could end up being expensive for Microsoft: The Via Licensing Alliance (Via LA), which manages and exploits a large patent portfolio with a focus on audio and video standards, has ...

On April 5, 2016, the Alliance for Open Media announced three new members; AMD, ARM, and NVIDIA, and that the AOMedia Video codec, also called AV1, would be developed as an open source project. As you ...

BOSTON – (December 23, 2021) – Access Advance, an independent licensing administrator, today announced that Microsoft, a global technology leader, has become a Licensor and Licensee of the HEVC ...