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Old 3rd September 2015, 10:15   #10  |  Link
nevcairiel
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Originally Posted by BadFrame View Post
h264 is already available until then (heck Microsoft is adding VP8/VP9 to their own browsers according to recent updates), meanwhile HEVC is more or less dead as a platform for streaming video due to the current royalty debacle, sites like Youtube, Netflix, Amazon, etc can just continue to serve h264 content until the new codec is ready and widely supported
The problem is that marketing is pushing them to deliver 4K, and streaming 4K with H.264 is just going to be inefficient at best - not to mention lack of wide 10-bit support, which is mandatory for proper BT.2020 transmission.
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