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Thursday, February 18. 2010

Google (probably) solve the HTML5 video problem.

It appears they have purchased On2, a vendor of video compressors that run outside the patented IP used in h.264. Looking at their stock I think this probably cost them about $120M. What will be interesting to see now is if "do no evil" Google release On2's patents into the wild - this could make for a very interesting IP landscape and some good opportunities for small vendors of video servers. Not that I'm one of them :(

Edit: Props to Chris Double who posted this first ... I got it via planet NZ tech (which is awesome).

Posted by David Preece at 16:14 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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