{"id":122407,"date":"2021-02-15T06:54:44","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T06:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=122407"},"modified":"2021-04-05T06:00:51","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T05:00:51","slug":"av1-video-compression-standard-will-become-mandatory-for-android-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/tv\/av1-video-compression-standard-will-become-mandatory-for-android-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"AV1 video compression standard will become mandatory for Android TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The AV1 codec, developed by the Alliance for Open Media with contributions from Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla and Netflix, is increasingly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flatpanelshd.com\/news.php?subaction=showfull&amp;id=1613043929\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">claiming<\/a>\u00a0to be a universal standard.\u00a0Its development\u00a0began\u00a0several years ago &#8211; and we were satisfied with the result.\u00a0You don&#8217;t have to pay for using AV1 &#8211; at the same time, according to various sources, it is 20\u201340% more efficient than the currently widespread HEVC.<\/p>\n<p>However, Amazon, Apple TV +, Disney +, Netflix and other major platforms are still using HEVC (H.265).\u00a0Switching to a new codec is still a costly affair.\u00a0Now the process will be accelerated thanks to Google.\u00a0The company has required AV1 to support all Android TV boxes released since April 2021.<\/p>\n<p>AV1 is really advancing on all fronts.\u00a0This video compression option will recognize 2021 Sony TVs with Google TV, although the company is not a member of the Alliance for Open Media.\u00a0AV1 support is also provided for the 2021 Philips TVs based on Android.\u00a0As for the LG and Samsung models, they began to implement AV1 on them back in 2020, as Samsung\u00a0announced a\u00a0year earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AV1 codec, developed by the Alliance for Open Media with contributions from Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla and Netflix, is increasingly\u00a0claiming\u00a0to be a universal standard.\u00a0Its development\u00a0began\u00a0several years ago &#8211; and we were satisfied with the result.\u00a0You don&#8217;t have to pay for using AV1 &#8211; at the same time, according to various [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/tv\/av1-video-compression-standard-will-become-mandatory-for-android-tv\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10402,"featured_media":122408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[641],"tags":[779],"class_list":["post-122407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}