The deactivation of codec hardware by OEMs also comes as associated costs for the international video compression standard will increase in January, as indicated by license manager Access Advance. announced in July. By a breakdown of the administration of the patent pool VIA Licensing AllianceRoyalty rates for HEVC for over 100,001 units are increasing from $0.20 each to $0.24 each in the United States. To put that in perspective, in the third quarter of 2025, HP sold 15,002,000 laptops and desktops, and Dell sold 10,166,000 laptops and desktops. according to Gartner.
Last year, the NAS company Synology announced which was ending support for HEVC, as well as H.264/AVC and VCI, transcoding on its DiskStation Manager and BeeStation OS platforms, saying that “support for video codecs is widespread on end devices such as smartphones, tablets, computers, and smart TVs.”
“This update reduces unnecessary resource usage on the server and significantly improves the efficiency of media processing. The optimization is particularly effective in environments with many users compared to traditional server-side processing,” the announcement said.
Despite the increasing costs and complications with HEVC licenses and workarounds, breaking features that have been widely available for years will likely lead to confusion and frustration.
“This is pretty ridiculous, given that these systems cost over $800 per machine, are part of a ‘Pro’ line (attacks on brand names are justified; HEVC is used professionally), and more apps these days outside of Netflix and streaming TV are adopting HEVC,” one Redditor wrote.
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