I was refering to the future: when the silicium will have hit its "best" (in a mass production context) and the video/audio compressed format of this future wou

I was refering to the future: when the silicium will have hit its "best" (in a mass production context) and the video/audio compressed format of this future would not be able to be "software decoded" in real time by such "best silicium" CPUs: only a specialized hardware block would be able to decode such video/audio compressed format in real time. The danger is this block only implementing the decoding of a non-royalty free/patent encumbered format à la mpeg, presuming the "intellectual property" was not globally fixed and still toxic like nowdays.