Acer and Asus ordered to halt PC sales in Germany after Nokia wins HEVC patent ruling

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• jojowakaki@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This is patent troll right? If I am to trust wikipedia, Nokia had nothing to do with the development of HEVC.

  The HEVC format was jointly developed by more than a dozen organisations across the world. The majority of active patent contributions towards the development of the HEVC format came from five organizations: Samsung Electronics (4,249 patents), General Electric (1,127 patents),[10] M&K Holdings (907 patents), NTT (878 patents), and JVC Kenwood (628 patents).[11] Other patent holders include Fujitsu, Apple, Canon, Columbia University, KAIST, Kwangwoon University, MIT, Sungkyunkwan University, Funai, Hikvision, KBS, KT and NEC.[12]

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  When the MPEG LA terms were announced, commenters noted that a number of prominent patent holders were not part of the group. Among these were AT&T, Microsoft, Nokia, and Motorola. Speculation at the time was that these companies would form their own licensing pool to compete with or add to the MPEG LA pool

  Something doesn’t seem right.

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• Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I feel like I’m missing something here. What do the manufacturers have to do with this, beyond perhaps including HEVC in advertising content? That’s on the GPU maker, AFAIK asus/acer practically purchase them from a catalog and build the rest around that size/shape

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  • workerONE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Maybe they’re including the unlicensed codec in their computers.

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    • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Ahh, if that’s the case, i have no sympathy for a fucking with a stock OS before handing it to the user. Nobody likes vendor bloatware

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• network_switch@lemmy.ml ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I like the news not because I think Asus and Acer should be paying more royalties to the whichever ghoul in the patent web there is but because every-time something like this happens it’s another hit against support for hevc and its nearly 6 year old successor that’s gotten little to no relevant adoption in mobile or desktop hardware. AV2 will publish its final standard 6 years after VVC and pretty much not be behind at all because of how crappy the patent situation is for hevc and vvc

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• paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  There’s another patent suit with Disney plus over HDR, or maybe the same thing, in Germany right now, too.

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