Discover what happened in the now infamous Game of Thrones season 8 'The Longest Night' episode (S8E3), which rather than delighting fans, greatly disappointed them by being so dark and full of artifacts, as to be nearly unwatchable. Mark and Dror dive in to the encoding science to explain how this terrible debacle happened.

E15: Low latency video streaming is all the rage, but fury has no match then when a streaming video game is slowed unacceptably. The Video Insiders talk to a technology leader about the technical requirements needed to meet the consumer expectation for video games that are streamed over the open Internet.

E14: Mark and Dror discuss a new AV1 patent pool, an interesting trend toward smart encoders that are silicon-based, new streaming services that are set to challenge the existing OTT incumbents, and the rise of HEVC.

E13: Mark and Dror talk with Ian Nock in this episode of The Video Insiders about HDR and why it's not as simple as it should be to deliver the full UHD experience.

E12: The Video Insiders discuss questions that are top of everyone's mind, like: What really is OTT? HEVC vs. AV1. AVOD vs. SVOD business models.

E11: The ultimate video insider Tom Vaughan joins Mark and Dror to discuss whether video codec and video quality evaluations should be performed using objective or subjective measurement techniques.

E10: There is one company that is in the center of nearly every video workflow that is in operation, and that is Intel. Mark & Dror speak with Nagesh Puppala at Intel about the cloud, AI, and future directions for video processing.

E09: Mark & Dror learn something shocking about HEVC support on devices running the THEOplayer SDK.

E08: Mark & Dror talk with Leonardo Charliogne, Chairman of the MPEG committee, about 40 years of digital video development and what the future holds for video standards.

E07: The Video Insiders talk with a pioneering software development company who is at the center of the microservices trend in modern video workflows.