[mythtv-users] How much is too much CPU?
Gary Buhrmaster
gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com
Fri May 31 15:30:49 UTC 2013
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
.....
> If they're intentionally restricting the ability of the hardware to play the
> content
.....
By not licensing the MPEG2 codec they probably saved themselves
a few dollars per device(*). And when you sell millions and millions, that
turns into real money (which is kept in Ireland :-).
Gary
(*) And while many of the MPEG-2 patents have expired, the price
for the pool has not gone down AFAIK.
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