MPEG-LA just announced draft details of their HEVC royalties. They've still got a cap, but it now starts at $25 million per year (I assume it'll rise by about 5% per year like H.264, which is up to about $6.5 million per year I think).
So if Cisco tried to pull the same stunt for HEVC they'd be looking at, what, somewhere over half a billion for the next couple of decades?
They dropped the fees for content (which I could never understand the legal basis of), which I think makes it harder for royalty-free codecs to compete, since it removes some of the ongoing incentive for content distributers to switch or dual encode, and makes it more about ubiquity where they probably feel the have an upper hand.
On the other hand, $25 million a years a lot of money, maybe Google's investment in VP9 just paid for itself?
Same for HEVC?
Date: 2014-01-27 11:38 am (UTC)So if Cisco tried to pull the same stunt for HEVC they'd be looking at, what, somewhere over half a billion for the next couple of decades?
They dropped the fees for content (which I could never understand the legal basis of), which I think makes it harder for royalty-free codecs to compete, since it removes some of the ongoing incentive for content distributers to switch or dual encode, and makes it more about ubiquity where they probably feel the have an upper hand.
On the other hand, $25 million a years a lot of money, maybe Google's investment in VP9 just paid for itself?