>So I don't appreciate new codecs coming out and obsoleting my hardware
You could say something similar about any other technological advance.
You could say something similar about any other technological advance.
I don't mind replacing a machine after 8 years of service, but h.265 still isn't supported by Google/YouTube, and Apple refuses to add hardware decoding for VP8/VP9, so there's no universal codec that will work as efficiently as h.264 did on my Mini and multitude of MacBooks and iPhones all this time.