Abstract
Conference Title: 2017 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE) Conference Start Date: 2017, Jan. 8 Conference End Date: 2017, Jan. 10 Conference Location: Las Vegas, NV, USA After adjusting for coding gain between the H.264 and HEVC codecs, a comparison is made between the two codecs' robustness to packet loss. A counter-intuitive finding arises that the less efficient codec is less affected by packet loss than the more efficient codec, even at very low levels of packet loss. The findings will be of interest to those designing portable devices that can display up to 4kUHD video.