DVB, Europe’s broadcast industry body, has dreamt about 8K video every night since the Versatile Video Coding (VVC) standard was finalized in July 2020. A year later, that dream isn’t quite a reality, but at least the DVB Project has made progress this week after approving three video codec candidates to spearhead its ambitious 8K and 4K roadmaps. AOMedia’s AV1 and China’s AVS3 join MPEG’s VVC as DVB’s three choices with which it will work to develop draft specifications and explore intellectual property rights policies. However, there is no mention of EVC (essential video coding) nor LCEVC (low-complexity video enhancement codec) which have both previously been mentioned as being on DVB’s radar. Has the open standards organization given up on…