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== Applications ==
{{Further|List of video services using H.264/MPEG-4 AVC}}
The H.264 video format has a very broad application range that covers all forms of digital compressed video from low bit-rate Internet streaming applications to HDTV broadcast and Digital Cinema applications with nearly lossless coding. With the use of H.264, bit rate savings of 50% or more compared to [[MPEG-2 Part 2]] are reported. For example, H.264 has been reported to give the same Digital Satellite TV quality as current MPEG-2 implementations with less than half the bitrate, with current MPEG-2 implementations working at around 3.5 Mbit/s and H.264 at only 1.5 Mbit/s.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Wenger|title=RFC 3984 : RTP Payload Format for H.264 Video |newspaper=Ietf Datatracker |date=February 2005 |url=http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3984#page-2 |page=2|doi=10.17487/RFC3984 |display-authors=etal|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Sony claims that 9 Mbit/s AVC recording mode is equivalent to the image quality of the [[HDV]] format, which uses approximately 18–25 Mbit/s.<ref>{{cite web|title=Which recording mode is equivalent to the image quality of the High Definition Video (HDV) format?|website=Sony eSupport|url=https://ca.en.kb.sony.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/41994|access-date=December 8, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171109054553/https://ca.en.kb.sony.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/41994|archive-date=November 9, 2017|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
To ensure compatibility and problem-free adoption of H.264/AVC, many standards bodies have amended or added to their video-related standards so that users of these standards can employ H.264/AVC. Both the [[Blu-ray Disc]] format and the now-discontinued [[HD DVD]] format include the H.264/AVC High Profile as one of three mandatory video compression formats. The Digital Video Broadcast project ([[Digital Video Broadcasting|DVB]]) approved the use of H.264/AVC for broadcast television in late 2004.
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