In addition to the financial burdens of HEVC licensing, the risk of lawsuits from patent holders can deter companies from ...

In context: The H.264 video compression standard, also known as AVC, has been around since 2003. Even though it's been superseded by newer codecs like H.265 and AV1, it remains the most popular option ...

The takeaway: For years, the industry has touted AV1 as the codec capable of sidestepping the royalty and litigation thicket surrounding HEVC. Now, a new lawsuit from Dolby Laboratories against Snap ...

BOSTON, MA / ACCESS Newswire / March 24, 2026 / Access Advance LLC today announced that Dolby Laboratories Inc., a holder of patents administered through the Access Advance Video Distribution Patent ...

Access Advance LLC today announced that Sharp Corporation, CB Cline, SK Planet, and Telechips, Inc have joined the Access Advance Video Distribution Patent Pool (VDP Pool) as Licensors, further ...

DALLAS, Jan. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Velos Media is pleased to announce the renewal of Acer's license to Velos' portfolio of fundamental high-efficiency video coding (HEVC) patents. Velos Media has ...

HP and Dell has disabled support for the High-Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard in some of their laptops, Ars Technica reports. HEVC is a codec that enables the compression of large videos into ...

Some Dell and HP laptop owners have been befuddled by their machines’ inability to play HEVC/H.265 content in web browsers, despite their machines’ processors having integrated decoding support.