Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million — backbone codec of the internet gets meteoric increase, AVC hikes follow disastrous H.265 licensing increases
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  • etherphon@piefed.worldEnglish
    31·
    2 days ago

    Really sad how companies went from making money by innovating to making money from being shitty patent trolls. Dolby have any engineers left or is it all lawyers?

    • baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      11·
      2 days ago

      dolby technologies aren’t even the most advanced, they’re just the most marketed, most expensive, most cutthroat in the industry

      • etherphon@piefed.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 days ago

        mm, I never really thought about that, they were just always a name in audio ever since cassette tapes for me. It’d be a shame if they had anything to do with what happened to E-mu/Ensoniq and then Creative Labs as they had so many great technologies and ideas. Consumer audio is pretty dull now honestly.