4K TV Owners Rejoice: New Streaming Tech Deal Means Your TV Isn't a Dead Duck

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4K TV Owners Rejoice: New Streaming Tech Deal Means Your TV Isn't a Dead Duck - by John Archer/ Tech/ Forbes/ forbes.com

"For months now the 4K UHD TV world has been operating under a dark and potentially catastrophic cloud of uncertainty thanks to a major disagreement between the most important video streaming services – think Netflix, Amazon, Ultraflix and M-Go among others – and a group representing what most would agree is the most important streaming technology for the current 4K age: HEVC.

So far-reaching has this spat been that it had the potential to render all of the current 4K TVs more or less redundant if it wasn’t resolved. So as a 4K TV owner myself, I’m relieved to report that it appears that an agreement has been reached.

The changing face of HEVC

The issue that blew up pretty much out of nowhere back in the summer was caused by the emergence of a new negotiating group, called HEVC Advance, representing the many patent holders with a stake in the HEVC compression system. This new group – which claimed such big hitters as Technicolor, Dolby, Philips, General Electric and Mitsubishi Electric among its members – laid out royalty and licensing demands that were far more far-reaching and expensive than those operated by the previously dominant HEVC negotiating group, MPEG LA...."




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