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Old 11th February 2019, 07:30   #1456  |  Link
TomV
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Originally Posted by IgorC View Post
This is not true.
Look at the report https://opensignal.com/reports-data/...nal_201811.pdf
Igor, you're arguing with 2 technical professionals who are key members of their respective Tier 1 companies... Amazon and Disney. They have access to much better insights on end-user bandwidth and client device capabilities than you or I. These companies will license proprietary codecs like Dolby AC-4 or xe-AAC if and when that makes sense. Software audio decoding is certainly feasible on most devices, especially at very low bit rates (when audio is also likely mixed to one channel).

I'm glad you have decent bandwidth in Latin America. In many developing areas of the world, bandwidth is still scarce and expensive. And even if mobile networks have been upgraded, that end-customer that a video streaming service is trying to take care of may still have an older device.
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