See this thread so that the same tired arguments don't get repeated again: http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=692448 http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=69244

See this thread so that the same tired arguments don't get repeated again: http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=692448 http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=692448 In addition to any technical argument, Theora is basically a renamed On2 VP3 (very little was modified from the original specification); if one goes by the fact that VP3 was originally meant to compete with MPEG-2 back in the mid-1990s, it is "obsolete" in a temporal sense. On2 has since superseded VP3 with VP6 and now VP7 (and soon, supposedly, VP8), so in that sense it is "obsolete" as well.