Started almost 6 months ago, we have seen a lots of major events happening in data compression community. c10n.info has a come a long way in this period and the next year will definitely be a lot more exciting than the last one.

Doom9 has published their annual video codec benchmark.

HDBEAT: Local Channels in MPEG-4 HD on DirecTV starting today for New York and LA

And you thought H.264 was a superior codec

Quantized Indexing is a newly introduced entropy coding method claiming better speed and compression efficiency. Ratko V. Tomic recently announced that source code for QI has finally been released.

We now have an MPEG-4 standard for lossless coding standard

Matt Mahoney announced release of PAQ7 at comp.compression. This is a complete rewrite of PAQ6.

Via /. I bumped into this ad hoc commentary on data compression programs

Press Release: Linear Acoustic president Tim Carroll to address SBE to discuss thorny subject of managing HDTV multichannel audio levels.

TechNewsWorld: Some of the world’s largest electronics and media companies joined together to work on high-definition television and audio standards for home entertainment networks.