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, December 22, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Access Advance LLC, the global leader in video codec patent pool licensing, today announced that Hisense Group Holdings Co., Ltd. has joined the HEVC ...

Recap: Support for the AV1 codec has grown considerably since its launch in 2018. Large and small platforms quickly adopted the format to minimize bandwidth consumption while preserving image quality.

It has become a hot topic that Dell and HP are intentionally disabling the H.265 (HEVC) hardware encoder and decoder on some laptops. This has resulted in issues such as video playback issues in ...

BOSTON — Access Advance LLC today announced significant expansions of both its HEVC Advance and VVC Advance Patent Pools during the second and third quarters of 2025, underscoring continued industry ...

Major laptop vendors have quietly removed hardware decode support for the H.265/HEVC codec in several business and entry-level models, a decision apparently driven by rising licensing fees. Users ...

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 are quietly turning off the built-in hardware support for the HEVC video standard on a range of newer laptops, particularly those built for business customers in the US. It’s a move that ...

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.

Access Advance LLC, an independent licensing administrator for leading video codec patent pools, today announced that Xiaomi has joined the HEVC Advance Patent Pool and the VVC Advance Patent Pool, as ...

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 ...