How much do DVD and digital media playback features really cost?

[JMH]

Summary: The amounts required to license digital media decoders on Windows PCs seem like chump change.

But multiply those pennies times hundreds of millions of PCs, and the bill for Microsoft and its PC OEM partners could be as much as $800 million per year.
Who pays, and who gets paid?

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/how-much-do-dvd-and-digital-media-playback-features-really-cost/4977

 

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We pay (if you want it) and they profit from it (want it or not)

 

[JMH]

Quite a good read...

 

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It was, nice RSS.