<div dir="ltr">On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Gary Buhrmaster <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gary.buhrmaster@gmail.com" target="_blank">gary.buhrmaster@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Raymond Wagner <<a href="mailto:raymond@wagnerrp.com">raymond@wagnerrp.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">> If they're intentionally restricting the ability of the hardware to play the<br>
> content<br>
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By not licensing the MPEG2 codec they probably saved themselves<br>
a few dollars per device(*). And when you sell millions and millions, that<br>
turns into real money (which is kept in Ireland :-).<br>
<br>
Gary<br>
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(*) And while many of the MPEG-2 patents have expired, the price<br>
for the pool has not gone down AFAIK.<br>
<div class=""><div class="h5">_______________________________________________<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div style>I use <a href="http://www.instatv-app.com/">http://www.instatv-app.com/</a> to stream from my hdhomerun directly to my ipad/iphone for live tv sometimes with out much trouble (in the house) sometimes bandwidth on wifi is an issue, but it's the only thing I have that I know of that plays an mpeg2 stream on ios.</div>
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