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Old 13th June 2018, 07:08   #705  |  Link
iwod
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Originally Posted by amichaelt View Post
So your claim is that Netflix will cut off the 10s of millions (though probably actually more) of devices that are already streaming 4K HEVC from their service? Yeah, right... People are not going to buy a new TV or STB because of some silly codec war.
Well I should have removed Netflix from that sentence, I am not sure if all of their Catalog are in HEVC already. But Youtube certainly aren't doing any HEVC at all. ( At least for now )

Yes, The point is, HEVC is already included in most TV or STB.

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Originally Posted by Blue_MiSfit View Post
Exactly, and this is why (unless CDN delivery costs are the vast majority of your opex) I don't see why a premium OTT VOD service would use AV1 anytime soon.
I wish we don't have the same problem with VVC.

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