The Fight for Patent-Unencumbered Media Codecs Is Nearly Won

Re:The Fight for Patent-Unencumbered Media Codecs Is Nearly Won by clouddrover on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @07:33AM (#16114470)

I think Apple's hand will be forced by major content providers. Hulu, YouTube, Amazon, Facebook, and Netflix all want AV1. YouTube and Netflix in particular want to adopt AV1 quickly. Netflix has been talking about supporting AV1 by the second quarter of this year: