I'll take your pitchfork and brandish it at least ... >>This could simply mean Google is requiring chips with hardware VP9 support Shouldn't we expect reasona

I'll take your pitchfork and brandish it at least ... >>This could simply mean Google is requiring chips with hardware VP9 support Shouldn't we expect reasonable backward-compatibility? Your second point seems valid. To be honest though ... youtube is the weak link in most of my set ups. Can't access ad-based youtube via Sonos (and no, I won't pay for premium because of how I feel about Google right now), scrapes here with Roku, etc. Google is slowly becoming obsolete in my house. n=1