Comment by wnevets

3 months ago

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

That is their entire profit margin.

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.