New Patent Pool Wants 0.5% of Content Owner/Distributor's Gross Revenue for HEVC

Posted by mmcclure on Wednesday July 22, 2015 @07:46PM
from the blog.streamingmedia.com dept.

http://blog.streamingmedia.com/2015/07/new-patent-pool-wants-share-of-revenue-from-content-owners.html

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Re:New Patent Pool Wants 0.5% of Content Owner/Distributor's... by A-F1V3 on Wednesday July 22, 2015 @07:52PM (#9933136)

Daala can't get here fast enough.

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Re:New Patent Pool Wants 0.5% of Content Owner/Distributor's... by mmcclure on Wednesday July 22, 2015 @08:15PM (#9933236)

But seriously, if this actually comes to pass, HEVC is dead in the water. No matter how terrific the gains may be, usage terms this egregious will drive a lot of adoption for Daala or VP9's successor.

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