Headlines of the last 12 months in the video encoder world have somewhat been dominated by three letters – AV1. That has led to a whole lot of discussion about the codec wars that are taking place with the Alliance for Open Media on one side and HEVC on the other.

On May 9th 2018, I took part in a panel discussion at the TV Connect Conference addressing this particularly after the big launch of AV1 from the Alliance for Open Media back before NAB in March, and its coming out party at NAB in April. Hell I went along to the launch party myself, and I have the stickers and T-shirt to prove it.


See how it transpired and add what you think...