Leading players across the HEVC ecosystem have been shaping up lately with early deployments and announcements, although it will not be until 2014 that the full codec will be available, along with commercially available encoder and decoder families to choose from. Early deployments have naturally featured the available encoders and connected TVs or set tops that already support HEVC after its ratification in January 2013, such as France Telecom Orange with Samsung 2013 smart TVs and encoders from French H.264 and HEVC specialist ATEME. Apart from these early deployments the smart money is on HEVC making its greatest early splash for content delivery over LTE mobile networks, where the appeal will be for handling the explosion in video, whether or…