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Well, I want to be the old grumpy guy here: just don't buy their stuff.

Also don't buy a PS4, Xbox, GoPro, Sony/Canon/Panasonic camera etc.

Or watch TV in Europe or Japan.

H.265 has been ahead for a number of years so obviously quite a few products exclusively support it.

Microsoft[1] and Sony[2] devices support VP9, and there is no reason to believe they won't support AV1 as well. GP was obviously talking about consuming video, so GoPro isn't relevant.

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/201...

[2] https://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=...

The PS4, XBox and the Sony range of cameras do not support VP9.

Not sure why you brought up Edge and Android TVs.

PS4 Pro supports VP9[1] as does XBox One X[2]. The point is that all of these companies now support VP9 in their consumer video consumption devices and will support free codecs going forward. Apple is the only holdout.

[1] https://www.flatpanelshd.com/review.php?id=1482404506&subact...

[2] http://www.tomshardware.com/news/xbox-scorpio-engine-soc-det...

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