AV1 and the Video Wars of 2027

Re:AV1 and the Video Wars of 2027 by ksec on Monday August 20, 2018 @01:20AM (#17797870)

Author’s Note: This post imagines a dystopian future for web video, if we continue to rely on patented codecs to transmit media files. What if one company had a perpetual monopoly on those patents? How could it limit our access to media and culture? The premise of this cautionary tale is grounded in fact. However, the future scenario is fiction, and the entities and events portrayed are not intended to represent real people, companies, or events.

If this were from a personal blog of an Mozilla employees I would have been perfectly fine with it. Instead it carries the name of Mozilla, and most of the story are simply fiction.

I don't know why the title is 2027, and 2027 was never mentioned again within the article. And for those who knows, 2027 is the year all AVC / H.264 patents expires.

I sometimes wish we could extend H.264 and create a new codec in a way, we will have a better codec that is patents free by 2027.

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Re:AV1 and the Video Wars of 2027 by totallyashill on Monday August 20, 2018 @06:30AM (#17798851)

Except the point where the evil monopoly buys the patents and keeps refreshing the patent pool, thus locking things like H.264 away forever.

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Re:AV1 and the Video Wars of 2027 by ksec on Monday August 20, 2018 @10:33AM (#17800201)

If that was valid we would never had a patent free MPEG-2 and MP3 codec by now.

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