Your last sentence is the exact situation with DVD, Blu-ray and UHD Blu-ray. You can play 4K video on youtube with hardly any royalty.
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Note that the above does NOT include other underlying IP you need to license which includes MPEG-2, Dolby and DTS, etc., etc.
Are you really equating user-produced content to commercial movies? Sure I'm paying licensing and royalties, I'm paying them to the content
creator & publisher. Are you really saying that paying royalties for a source-publisher of physical media is equivalent to paying a 3rd party for simply putting a wrapper around other's creative content?!?
I'd have a huge problem with paying extra to YouTube in order to stream movies I own... but I'd have
even more of a problem if I had to pay more because they struck a deal with the studios to have them prevent non-YT masters from being available at all.
Really, there is just no way to defend any existing commercial formats on these grounds. Yet we consume them without complaining but get all upset on a format like MQA which has no prayer of becoming mainstream.
No that is just your crusading that's talking... I'm not "upset" at all - I simply will not participate. I have a problem with
any non-open format, I just have slightly less of an issue with those that bring an
improvement to the table at least. For those who want to support MQA I'm as happy as I am with them supporting any other snake oil salesmen... it's their money - waste away! That doesn't mean I don't think they shouldn't have any kickback - kinda like an exotic DAC with poor SINAD (but a huge following of supporters).
People needed to be "woke" years ago about audio/video formats and help create lower cost versions. Fortunately with the age of Internet, we don't need a consortia to create formats so years from now the problem will be behind us. For now though, let's be consistent and not complain about a little fly in our house where a hungry lion is sitting next to us.
People did, but it's simply a fact of modern corporate life that it's largely meaningless. No matter how proven lossless, open-source solutions may be, if you can't make money off it... it isn't happening. Even if it's possible to resolve a medical condition reasonably through dietary means... you can guarantee there
will be a pharmaceutical solution as well... and only that one will have a ton of marketing behind it. Just because I don't have the power to stop corporate greed, government corruption, or fraudulent sales tactics... I should stop bothering? One wonders why we bother doing anything then - I guess I shouldn't have an opinion on anything I don't sit on the board of.
Those SINAD flies won't bother that lion either, but I still see a value in you pointing out when they're buzzing.