What just happened? Acer and Asus have suspended direct PC and laptop sales in Germany after a court ruling handed Nokia a significant win in a patent dispute over HEVC video compression technology.

DALLAS, Jan. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Velos Media is pleased to announce the renewal of Acer's license to Velos' portfolio of fundamental high-efficiency video coding (HEVC) patents. Velos Media has ...

Access Advance LLC, the global leader in video codec patent pool licensing, today announced that Hisense Group Holdings Co., Ltd. has joined the HEVC Advance Patent Pool as a Licensee. Hisense joins ...

BOSTON, MA AND SAN FRANCISCO, CA / ACCESS Newswire / December 15, 2025 / Access Advance LLC and Via Licensing Alliance announced today Access Advance's acquisition of Via's HEVC/VVC program, a move ...

Facepalm: Users experiencing issues with certain videos not playing on Dell or HP laptops running recent CPUs might not realize that both companies have recently disabled H.265 video encoding and ...

HP and Dell has disabled support for the High-Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard in some of their laptops, Ars Technica reports. HEVC is a codec that enables the compression of large videos into ...

HP and Dell have cut support for hardware-accelerated High-Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) playback on select laptops, a change that has left some users unable to view HEVC content in browsers such as ...

Some Dell and HP laptop owners have been befuddled by their machines’ inability to play HEVC/H.265 content in web browsers, despite their machines’ processors having integrated decoding support.

H.265/HEVC comes as the successor to H.264/AVC which tries to offer the same level of picture quality as AVC, but with better compression. It becomes gradually the standard codec for 4K videos and ...

MOHALI, India, Oct. 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Scintillation Research has conducted an independent, non-commissioned study on HEVC technology and prepared a detailed report on HEVC essentiality analysis ...

What happens when a trusted tech brand makes a decision that fundamentally alters how its products are used? For Synology, the answer is unfolding in real-time, as its recent move to eliminate ...