You dont notice good video compression—until its not there. For years, people have streamed high resolution video without thinking about the tech behind it. But when companies clash over which hardware, software, and services can use modern codecs like HEVC H.265 , the idea that it all “just works” quickly falls apart. For some Dell and HP customers, that illusion has already been shattered. When the companies disabled HEVC support built into the CPUs of select PCs, it raised uncomfortable...

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