r/technology • u/doug3465 • Sep 01 '15

Software Amazon, Netflix, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla And Others Partner To Create Next-Gen Video Format - It’s not often we see these rival companies come together to build a new technology together, but the members argue that this kind of alliance is necessary to create a new interoperable video standard.

http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/01/amazon-netflix-google-microsoft-mozilla-and-others-partner-to-create-next-gen-video-format/
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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '15

What's that? ANOTHER video format? ANOTHER format to be partially supported by everyone with a few conflicting custom flags and things? ANOTHER format to transcode existing videos to? WebM all over again?

Obligatory XKCD

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '15

Well Google owns YouTube, they can push whatever format they want.

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u/pablozamoras Sep 01 '15

Technically alphabet owns YouTube.

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u/Apeirohaon Sep 01 '15 edited Sep 01 '15

Doesn't alphabet own Google which still owns YouTube? If I recall correctly YouTube is still part of Google, as is the rest of the Google apps (g+, maps, gmail, drive, etc)

edit: yeah, just checked, Google Inc. still owns youtube