Hulu ramps up its personalization efforts, starting with launch of Like / Dislike buttons . Hulu says it’s working on several product changes to make its service more personalized to viewers. It recently launched an enhanced recommendation engine that now accounts for not just what you watch, but also when. And today, it’s introducing the first of what will be many more ...

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Inside MPEG's Ambitious Plan to Launch 3 Video Codecs in 2020 . The pace of innovation is getting faster and the demands on video codecs are getting greater. MPEG's three-part plan answers questions of royalties, ...

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Choosing an x264 Preset . All codecs and encoding tools have a configuration option that controls the quality/encoding time tradeoff. With x264 (and x265) the preset controls ...

Engineers solve 50-year-old puzzle in signal processing . Something called the fast Fourier transform is running on your cell phone right now. The FFT, as it is known, is a signal-processing algorithm that ...

Optimizing the CDN for Live Streaming . As streaming services battle for a limited number of viewers and shrinking attention spans, live events, which are a proven driver of audience ...

People Think Netflix Killed Blockbuster. Now a Brand New Report Says These 7 Other Things Mattered More . Netflix killed Blockbuster, right? That's been the conventional wisdom for a decade, as Blockbuster went through bankruptcy and withered down to single remaining franchise in Oregon.

But there's more to the story, as journalist Ben Unglesbee just reported in a 7,000-word analysis on the industry ...

High Schools Need to Get Over It and Embrace Esports . Do esports belong in high school? In a rapidly growing number of high schools, gamers are the new jocks. School districts are scrambling to approve ...

Engineers solve 50-year-old puzzle in signal processing . Something called the fast Fourier transform is running on your cell phone right now. The FFT, as it is known, is a signal-processing algorithm that ...