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Submission + - First Look: H.264 and VP8 Compared - StreamingMedi (streamingmedia.com) 4

Submitted by TheReal_sabret00the on Saturday May 22, 2010 @06:50PM

TheReal_sabret00the writes: VP8 is now free, but if the quality is substandard, who cares? Well, it turns out that the quality isn't substandard, so that's not an issue, but neither is it twice the quality of H.264 at half the bandwidth. See for yourself.

Submission + - Opera: 'Dramatic' rise since Microsoft's ballot (techradar.com)

Submitted by TheReal_sabret00the on Friday March 19, 2010 @06:34AM

TheReal_sabret00the writes: "A multitude of browsers will make the web more standardised and easier to browse".

According to Opera, the increase represents a doubling from normal download numbers on average – and the impact in some countries has been larger still.

Poland (328%) Spain (215%) and Italy (202%) top the list of increases, with the UK's 85 per cent actually one of the smaller changes.

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