From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   Some owners of HP and Dell laptops are finding that their machines can   
   no longer playback HEVC/H.265-encoded video content, even though this   
   capability is supposed to be built into their hardware   
   .   
      
   Why is this happening? The obvious answer: patent issues. The royalty   
   rates these companies have to pay to offer this functionality is going   
   up quite substantially from next year, and they have to cut costs. So   
   the users will have to pay extra money to get this capability back.   
      
   Synology also used to offer the capability to transcode videos to   
   H.265 on some of its products, but discontinued that as of last year.   
      
   This is why AV1 was created by Google and other companies: to offer a   
   patent-free alternative to H.265. But in spite of all the patent   
   issues that were clear from the beginning, lots of companies went   
   ahead with H.265-based products regardless. Maybe now we will see the   
   popularity of AV1 increase?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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