<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">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_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":2dl" style="overflow:hidden">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 :-).</div></blockquote></div><br>Seems to me they could have it locked by default and then sell a license in the app store that would enable the hardware decoding. If somebody was interested in MPEG2, then they could pay for it.<br>
<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Ron Frazier
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