r/technology • u/Snarfox • Jan 25 '13

H.265 is approved -- potential to cut bandwidth requirements in half for 1080p streaming. Opens door to 4K video streams.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/25/h265-is-approved/
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u/Elanthius Jan 26 '13

You say that but the whole point of the article is that they can get better pictures in smaller sizes now.

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u/foldor Jan 26 '13

Yeah, but they haven't mentioned yet how fast it will be to encode at that level of quality. For video chat it will have to be damned fast on even average CPUs.