Not surprising based on my experience. BR hardware/software is a nightmare to maintain. Lots of new multimedia tech really sucks in terms of the overall experie

Not surprising based on my experience. BR hardware/software is a nightmare to maintain. Lots of new multimedia tech really sucks in terms of the overall experience. In the codec realm, I find myself going all the way back to MPEG1 for a side project. Getting 100% of the patents/royalties out of the equation does wonders for compatibility. ISO is still getting me on the standards docs, but that's a one-time cost. Not every application/customer on earth demands the bleeding edge in efficiency or quality. Especially in the information theory arena - you are always trading something else important. It's usually latency, memory & compute, which are very powerful dragons when trying to scale real-world applications.