With the release of the iPad, among other things, HTML5′s been pitted against Flash as the saviour of web video. It might be! (Or not!) Either way, a crucial arguing point is that it’s more efficient. So, uh, is it?
Appropriately following our explainer on why HTML5 won’t save the internet (yet) and the embedded discussion about video codecs and the future of internet video, MPEG LA – who licenses the H.264 codec – has announced they’re going to continue H.264′s royalty freeness for free internet video through 2016.
Don’t be fooled by its thoroughly Eighties body (if this was a clutch bag, it would have been in Melanie Griffith’s paws as she trundled over to Manhattan on the Staten Island ferry in Working Girl) – Canon’s new iVIS HR10, out over here this summer, is utterly Noughties by nature, as it records everything in either MP4 or H.264 format.
