The Joint Video Team (JVT) — a cooperative effort of VCEG (the ITU’s Video Coding Experts Group) and MPEG (the ISO’s Moving Pictures Experts Group) — has completed the technical design of the MPEG-4 AVC video codec. Garry Sullivan, the chairman of JVT and VCEG, told News.com:

Completing the technical design is a key milestone towards [...]

Sharp says that they’ll be selling 3D LCD displays in 2003. These displays will use a scaled-up version of the technology that is currently used in the J-SH07 cell phone that Sharp currently sells in Japan.
It will be interesting to see whether the limitations of this technology will affect its ability to escape “gimmick” status. [...]

With this release, the Ogg Vorbis QuickTime codec is compatible with QuickTime 6. Ogg Vorbis for QuickTime is available for Macintosh and Windows. | QuickTime Components Project home