Netflix carried out A/B testing prior to rollout to understand the overall streaming impact of enabling AV1 Film Grain Synthesis. It showcased a smoother and more reliable Quality of Experience (QoE), ...

Cropped frame comparison: Regular AV1 stream (Left), AV1 FGS stream without grain synthesis during decoding (Middle), and AV1 FGS stream with grain synthesis (Right). The DVB Project has published … ...

Sometimes, it’s the imperfections that make something better than it would be otherwise. For movies, that's often film grain at work, and Netflix just figured out how to make it even better for you.

Evan Rachel Wood has said she wasn’t asked to return for Practical Magic 2, despite “happily” offering her services. The 37-year-old, who was just 11 when she appeared in the Halloween cult ...

Netflix's new AV1 Film Grain Synthesis tech boosts image quality It also reduces file size and improves streaming performance The tech has been rolling out to movies and TV shows since March 2025 ...

Whether you think he’s an outsider genius who never got his due, or agree with the characters on Seinfeld that the Wood-directed 1959 film Plan 9 From Outer Space is “the worst movie ever made ...

Black Ops 6 turned out to be the biggest release in the franchise's history, so we're curious to see what Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 brings to the table when it arrives sometime later this year.