On2 has press claiming that VP8 is "40% less complex" than H.264, which presumably means that it can be decoded more efficiently than H.264 by some benchmark or

On2 has press claiming that VP8 is "40% less complex" than H.264, which presumably means that it can be decoded more efficiently than H.264 by some benchmark or another. There's probably some sort of marketing spin to this, but if it's true that VP8 is as efficient or more so than H.264, then Google opening up the IP to write VP8 decodes would probably mean that a lot of hardware vendors would start writing support for it.