Dell and HP Disable Hardware H.265 Decoding on Select PCs Due to Rising Royalty Costs — Companies Could Save Big on HEVC Royalties, but at the Expense of Users
This is just ridiculous. By Anton Shilov No money, no hardware decoding. Dell and HP have begun to ship some of their PCs with disabled HEVC hardware decoding, potentially in a bid to avoid paying royalties to patent holders,…