Tide Tide

If you have spent any time watching game streams or uploading your own recordings, you have probably noticed a quiet war happening behind the scenes. It is not about which game is more popular or which streamer has the better microphone. It is about how much data you can push through a pipe without making the picture look like a pixelated mess. For years, the standard was H.264, a codec so old it was born when the PlayStation 2 was still new. Then came H.265, which gave us b