Comment by malfist

3 months ago

Note that it's not a $0.24 increase Dell and HP are upset over, its an increase of $0.04. The price they were paying was $0.20.

So if you have a Dell or HP laptop, your hardware acceleration is broken because your experience with the hardware isn't worth $0.04 to the OEM.

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unethical_ban  3 months ago

Your hardware acceleration is broken because zoom doesn't run AV1?

I get your point but wonder why av1 isn't being phased in.

sevensor  3 months ago

If I understood the article correctly, you can re-enable this by making a purchase on the Microsoft Store. All stakeholders win. Licensor. OEM. Microsoft. We made the pie bigger!

Well, maybe not so great for the end user or the IT department.

  • ocdtrekkie  3 months ago

    Let's just say unless you are buying Windows Enterprise the deployment method of this is basically unmanageable for businesses. Like... individuals need their own Microsoft accounts to buy it for their own PC sort of unmanageable.

    There's a way to volume license HEVC but only for very specific enterprise categories, others just can't.

  • hurfdurf  3 months ago

    >you can re-enable this by making a purchase on the Microsoft Store.

    That is just a software decoder running on the CPU. HP and Dell are effectively killing any way to hardware-decode (and encode?) HEVC on these models. Which is a thing you want on a power- and heat-limited device such as a laptop.

    • sevensor  3 months ago

      I understood the article to say that it was a driver that enabled the hardware and not a software decoder.

  • xp84  3 months ago

    I don’t think that’s true. I think if you buy that you are getting software decoding which is going to be worse and consume more power.

wnevets  3 months ago

> because your experience with the hardware isn't worth $0.04 to the OEM.

That is their entire profit margin.

  • xp84  3 months ago

    If it were, they could 20x their margin numbers by raising prices $1 across the board.

    It shows how much disdain they have for their customers though, that they won’t at least make it a 25 ¢ line item upgrade for customers who actually care. Instead customers have to pay $20 or whatever for an inferior software decoder.