Then it's internal politics at play. Or perhaps image codecs are not as important to Google. E.g. Android TV now requires hardware support for AV1 [1] and Goog

Then it's internal politics at play. Or perhaps image codecs are not as important to Google. E.g. Android TV now requires hardware support for AV1 [1] and Google threatened Roku that Rouku would lose Youtube support if it didn't support AV1 in hardware [2] [1] https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/av1-android-14-requirement https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/av1-android-14-requiremen... [2] https://www.protocol.com/youtube-tv-roku-issues https://www.protocol.com/youtube-tv-roku-issues