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Acer and Asus ordered to halt PC sales in Germany after Nokia wins HEVC patent ruling
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this post was submitted on 19 Feb 2026
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I feel like I'm missing something here. What do the manufacturers have to do with this, beyond perhaps including HEVC in advertising content? That's on the GPU maker, AFAIK asus/acer practically purchase them from a catalog and build the rest around that size/shape
Edit: if its the licensing fee, that's on the OS and/or end user, not the hardware
Maybe they're including the unlicensed codec in their computers.
Ahh, if that's the case, i have no sympathy for fucking with a stock OS before handing it to the user. Nobody likes vendor bloatware
Not even if it's a free codec you'd normally have to pay for?