We have grown accustomed to “HD Everywhere” by consuming high-fidelity content in most aspects of our lives. State-of-the-art audio and video codecs such as MPEG AAC and H.264 have set our ...

Audio codecs are one of the fundamental building blocks of modern media systems. The first and still most prominent MPEG audio codec is mp3, which first appeared on the market in 1998. Since then, ...

It's quite rare to find headphone jacks in smartphones these days. The good news is that wireless earbuds don't cost much now. But it's not just the driver setup and advanced tech that makes a pair of ...

With the rise in popularity of wireless headphones and earbuds, a lot of technical terms have come along with them. From wireless charging to Bluetooth multipoint, wear sensors, ANC and transparency, ...

CODEC is one of those newly invented words that's only been in the dictionary for a few years, yet what it represents may be one of the most important pieces of ...

[Editor's note: John Honovich publishes this and other information on network video at IPVideoMarket.info.] CODECs are a critical element of choosing, designing and using video surveillance systems.