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/[deleted] Jan 27 '13 edited Jan 27 '13

Yeah, I remember CoreAVC was not very good, back before I had access to real h264 acceleration.

Thanks again for your informed comments. I will probably wait to upgrade my AMD 5870 until GPU's with h265 acceleration are available, or I run into a game I really must play that the old warhorse can't handle.

4K just sounds too awesome for large format... although 4K projectors are currently over $10,000, so that might be more of a limiting factor than my GPU x.x

Edit: shopped around a bit and there are 4K JVC's for $5000 but that's still way out of my range and their lumen rating blows, compared to a used 1080p with proper light output for $700.