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Originally Posted by kidjan
Except there wasn't an existing base of billions of phones capable of decoding MPEG-1, and MPEG-1 was obviously a pretty basic standard comparatively speaking. Right now there are literally billions of embedded devices with hardware capability for H.264; it's a completely different situation if you take magnitude and proliferation into account, not to mention the relative maturity of H.264 when compared to something like MPEG-1 (please, no comparison)
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There were more than a billion VCRs sold when DVD came out. There were more than a billion DVD players sold when BluRay came out. Did you fight against those things coming out as well? I really don't see how it's a different scenario other than you've just made an arbitrary line. H.264 deserves no special place of being considered irreplaceable versus any other video codec or format.