Video coding is just about to get a whole lot more efficient. Fraunhofer HHI has officially released the H.266, or Versatile Video Coding (VVC), standard, which offers improved compression up to a rate of 50 percent over H.265 (HEVC). What it boils down to is a new,...
Internet service providers are having their network capacities put to the test as more people take to telecommuting (or are simply stuck at home) during the current pandemic. This has resulted in some throttling, and not just by video streaming services like Netflix....
I rarely have latency problems in games, but lately I’ve noticed 100-plus pings and red Discord bars more often. I can’t prove the exact cause—Comcast just sucks sometimes—but an obvious hypothesis is that increased internet usage caused by COVID-19...