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I specifically bought a new Roku Ultra 2020 for 4k AV1 decode support as I knew AV1 would be big, especially if I move to an area with poor broadband. As far as

I specifically bought a new Roku Ultra 2020 for 4k AV1 decode support as I knew AV1 would be big, especially if I move to an area with poor broadband. As far as I know that is the first device that supports that. I love it-plugging in my headphones for private listening works very well. https://www.engadget.com/roku-ultra-dolby-vision-streaming-player-130015662.html https://www.engadget.com/roku-ultra-dolby-vision-streaming-p... From what I am reading between the lines: Youtube wants to dump H.265 because of patent royalties. Roku has a lot of 4K streaming sticks with H.265 support but no AV1 support. Roku picked a fight over it because maybe those customers would leave for Google devices? I no longer will get YT updates for my AV1 device. Is this correct?

judge2020 5y ago
'YouTube' and 'YouTube TV' are separate apps - as far as I know, YouTube TV is no longer on the store (as the contract expired) but the YouTube app contract is still in place and thus still available on the store. The regular YouTube app's fate is unknown at this time but you should be able to use it at least until December (ctrl f this blog post for the source on that).