The Market Significance of Apple's Adopting HEVC: Here's What I Think

At the recent World Wide Developer's Conference (WWDC), Apple announced that the next versions of Safari, iOS, and tvOS will support HLS with HEVC encoded video. This puts Apple firmly in the HEVC camp, with the Alliance for Open Media camp (Amazon, Cisco, Intel, Google, Microsof

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