Clarifying HEVC licensing fees, royalties, and why vendors kill HEVC support

In addition to the financial burdens of HEVC licensing, the risk of lawsuits from patent holders can deter companies from seeking HEVC support. The space is crowded with pending and settled lawsuits, ...
Electronic Design

What’s the Difference Between NRZ, NRZI, and Manchester Encoding?

What's the difference between NRZ, Manchester (Phase Encoding or PE), NRZI, and RZ, coding. What's the difference between unipolar and bipolar signaling. How clocking is determined to extract data ...
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Meet Ziv Chen, Our News Editor

Ziv has been deep in the iGaming trenches for over 20 years, long before most people could spell "geolocation compliance." With a background in marketing and business development at some of the ...
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Dennis Welch

Veteran political reporter Dennis Welch joined Arizona's Family in June 2012 as the station's political editor. In this role, Welch oversees all aspects of our political coverage across the station's ...
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Alex Welch

Alex is an Audience Writer at TheWrap, based in Los Angeles. He has been covering the entertainment industry since 2013. Before joining TheWrap in 2025, he worked as a critic and reporter for A.frame, ...