Why the New H.266/VCC Video Codec Is a Big Deal
by Brendan Hesse from Lifehacker on (#55FW8)

The new H.266 video codec is a pretty big deal. You can't play with it yet-tempted as you might be to go install Handbrake and bask in video encodes that are half the size of your already-optimized H.265 videos-but its very existence will speed up the eventual transition to 8K HDR video. And that's a good thing,...