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It would encourage competition by allowing other actors to create alternative solutions and get money from it. Competition can be good for consumer if new form
by cryptonym 4y ago
It would encourage competition by allowing other actors to create alternative solutions and get money from it.
Competition can be good for consumer if new format technically superiors can emerge. Might be harder if this market is locked by huge companies that don't want to pay and push an inferior but artificially free solution.
That's an argument, not my opinion, I don't know what to think about this issue.
- mort96 4y agoPreventing interoperable media codec standards is consumer harm. The status quo, which AOM is fighting against, is insanely harmful to the consumer.
- WastingMyTime89 4y agoIs it really? Because all the members of AOM are posting insane profits including on their media part and media codec is an insignificant part of a smartphone price. Honestly the whole thing looks mostly like a play from big players to pay less on the encoding side. It’s mostly irrelevant to consumers.
- JoshTriplett 4y agoSmartphones are hardly the only thing that cares about codecs. So does anyone embedding a video online, anyone building video editing software, any browser engine, any video call system, anyone building tools that play with video (e.g. AI/ML and every random "make you look like a cat" system), and a thousand other things that want to innovate around video.
- kasabali 4y ago> Competition can be good for consumer if new format technically superiors can emerge. Industry has had its chance and they choose to nickel and dime everyone to the degree that noone who uses HEVC can be sure they're not infringing someone's patent even if they've payed up every single patent pool. AOM is others response to this ridiculous status quo, within the same pate t framework. So if you don't hate the game, don't hate the new players, either.