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Comment by eurekin

1 day ago

I'm not sure this is the case, but to play devils advocate - Sony themselves might have to license it from a third party

There is no reason to bend over backwards to make up excuses for bad behaviour.

  • It's just experience from a video monitoring project we made for a Telco operator - we had to pay up quite a few JPEG related tech, just to get a certification. Even despite that tech being free.

    Historically video related field was one of the most patent and license encumbered. That's why AV1 exists.