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Allegro DVT Launches Industry’s First SHVC Compliance ‘Test Suites’

Allegro DVT launched the industry’s first “test suites” for decoder manufacturers to gauge compliance with the HEVC Scalability Extension (SHVC) standard, it said in a Monday announcement. The test suites are composed of multiple test sets to check spatial, bit-depth…

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and color gamut scalability, plus "various combinations of these scalability features,” it said. The company expects SHVC “to play a major role especially in the context of the upcoming ATSC 3.0 standard,” which will introduce new features, such as Ultra HD, high dynamic range and support for mobile devices, it said. SHVC’s “layered” coding can be used to achieve backward compatibility “and less bandwidth congestion in the backbone network while ensuring efficient support for portable and mobile devices,” it said.