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  OT: Alliance for Open Media to create new open source video format

  Posted by Walter Soyka on September 2, 2015 at 10:52 am

  Amazon, Cisco, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla and Netflix are teaming up to develop an open-source, royalty-free, patent-permissive video format:

  https://www.wired.com/2015/09/techs-biggest-names-unite-create-new-video-format/

  Presumably, they are not excited about the prospect of paying the HEVC Advance patent pool $100M/yr and are doing something about it:

  https://blog.streamingmedia.com/2015/07/new-patent-pool-wants-share-of-revenue-from-content-owners.html

  Walter Soyka
  Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
  Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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  Walter Soyka replied 9 years, 3 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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