People all over the world are celebrating the start of 2014 by pledging to lose weight, quit smoking, and spend less time waiting for YouTube videos to play. Okay, that last one is mostly Google’s ...

YouTube teams up with several hardware makers such as Samsung, Sharp, Toshiba and ARM to adopt the new codec VP9 for the 4K content. YouTube may soon embrace the 4K resolution on its network.

Google's VP9 video codec is getting a major boost today. While Mozilla, Google's own Chrome browser and a few video players like FFmpeg started supporting VP9 over the course of the last year, what ...

In a bid to kickstart Google's new royalty free VP9 video format, YouTube will demonstrate 4K streaming technology at the forthcoming 2014 International CES. The 4K format (also called UltraHD) has ...

YouTube has begun rolling out VP9 codec support to videos uploaded to the website to improve video compression and speed. The Google-owned company announced the changes on Monday. Google says the ...

As smartphones and tablets support screen resolutions higher than full HD and monitors for PCs support 4K, demand for higher resolution contents of full HD or higher is gradually increasing. However, ...

Internet's biggest video provider to stage 4K demos at CES with Google-owned VP9 codec with LG, Panasonic and Sony The move could set the stage for an industry fight over which next-generation codec ...