New video coding standard delivers major advances in image quality; ITU standard opens new opportunities for entertainment & video telecommunication.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-23 December 2002-ITU: New video coding standard delivers major advances in image quality; ITU standard opens new opportunities for entertainment & video telecommunication(C)1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:12232002 Geneva - The technical design of a new video compression standard was agreed this week in Japan.

Known as H.264/AVC, it has been developed by a group of the world's leading technical experts, and promises dramatic improvements in video quality. The new standard is likely to find use in a wide variety of applications from mobile phones to High Definition TV and is destined to revolutionize video picture quality over networks such as the Internet, 3G Wireless and the PSTN. The new standard is the achievement of the ITU and...

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