Five years ago this week… An evaluation team set up by MPEG and the ITU’s Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) proposed a successor to HEVC. Slated for arrival in 2020, JEM (Joint Exploration Mode) was said to offer significant performance gains in compression compared to HEVC. JEM was architecturally similar to HEVC, but MPEG’s decision to proceed with a successor while it was still wrangling over IP spats seemed tantamount to an admission that its performance improvement over H.264 had been unable to meet the rising demand for ultra HD, OTT content and 5G applications. — Ahead of Dish Network’s official Q4 2022 results filing, the US satellite operator has disclosed in a preliminary 8K that net pay TV subscriber losses reached 268,000…