New patent group threatens to derail 4K HEVC video streaming
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/07/new-patent-group-threatens-to-derail-4k-hevc-video-streaming/
A new industry group called HEVC Advance is threatening
to demand royalties for the new HEVC video codec that could
halve the bandwidth required for streaming online video, or
offer higher resolutions with the same bandwidth usage. The
organization is promising to demand a royalty of 0.5 percent of
revenue from any broadcaster that uses the codec. This move
could re-ignite the arguments surrounding video codecs on the
Web, and may well jeopardize services such as Netflix's year old
4K streaming service.
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