I specifically bought a new Roku Ultra 2020 for 4k AV1 decode support as I knew AV1 would be big, especially if I move to an area with poor broadband. As far as I know that is the first device that supports that. I love it-plugging in my headphones for private listening works very well.
https://www.engadget.com/roku-ultra-dolby-vision-streaming-p...
From what I am reading between the lines: Youtube wants to dump H.265 because of patent royalties. Roku has a lot of 4K streaming sticks with H.265 support but no AV1 support. Roku picked a fight over it because maybe those customers would leave for Google devices? I no longer will get YT updates for my AV1 device.
Is this correct?