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Re:The Fight for Patent-Unencumbered Media Codecs Is Nearly Won by upofadown on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @06:54AM (#16114307)
The new North American ATSC-3 TV standard also uses HEVC so that particular royalty will be charged on a TV purchase in that part of the world. Dunno how much it will end up adding. The current practice seems to be to pack in as much chargeable intellectual property into these "industry standards" as is humanly possible.
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Re:The Fight for Patent-Unencumbered Media Codecs Is Nearly Won by 2bitencryption on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @04:40PM (#16119360)
wait, is there really forward progression in broadcast OTA television in the US?

I've always thought that cable television and modern broadcast television was all still mpeg-2. HEVC would be a huge leap forward in tech (and backward in openness, I suppose?)

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Re:The Fight for Patent-Unencumbered Media Codecs Is Nearly Won by freeone3000 on Thursday January 11, 2018 @10:22AM (#16124431)
Side-step in openness. All MPEG-2 has in its favor its the patents expire earlier.
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