

Yeah, the licensing is BS but couldn’t they just tack on like 40 cents to the price or whatever? For a $900+ machine, it wouldn’t even be a rounding error.
Open codecs are better, yeah, but artificially crippling existing media workflows is kind of a dick move, IMO.















Yeah. There’s other precedent for that, too.
With the original Xbox, you couldn’t play DVD’s without the infrared remote kit (even though the software and hardware was capable). The license fee for that was part of the cost of the IR receiver and remote kit.
Didn’t the original Raspberry Pi also sell codec licenses as well?