God blinds those He wants to lose.
God blinds those He wants to lose.
Posted Feb 2, 2018 8:38 UTC (Fri) by ttelford (subscriber, #44176)In reply to: God blinds those He wants to lose. by moltonel
Parent article: Chiariglione: A crisis, the causes and a solution
> On the other hand, I'm looking forward to seeing quicker improvements to compression technology
I’m not convinced the development pace will change significantly.
Signals can only be compressed so much.
Netflix and Youtube isn’t going to keep re-encoding content in the year’s new shiny format.
Cheap, efficient chips (or modules within a SOC) take just as long to design whether the codec uses patents or not.
Supporting more codecs (and by extension more legacy codecs) means more die space - and higher cost.