<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 7:06 PM, 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 Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 10:09 PM, jedi <<a href="mailto:jedi@mishnet.org">jedi@mishnet.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> ... Apple's apparent<br>
<span class="">> hostility to MPEG2 has always intrigued me.<br>
<br>
</span>At (around) $2/unit shipped, that is real money.<br>
Somewhere north of a billion dollars for all iDevices<br>
sold (and even to Apple, a billion dollars matters).<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Not to mention that basically none of these low power streaming devices have native support for MPEG2. This is certainly not unique to Apple.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">MPEG2 should be long dead by now, but cable operator still utilize this format. Fortunately, we are seeing signs of cable operators in the US slowly transitioning to MPEG4, and potentially making this a moot point.</div></div>