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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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