H.265 hardware decoding is already cheap. For instance, the $35 odroid-c1 has it. Between NVIDIA GTX 900 cards out now and the coming support in Intel's Skyla

H.265 hardware decoding is already cheap. For instance, the $35 odroid-c1 has it. Between NVIDIA GTX 900 cards out now and the coming support in Intel's Skylake, there will be a nice install base for H.265 by next year. Unfortunately, there's no hasH265HWAccel property for netflix/youtube to check.