@Isaac_B

More firmware updates sound good to me.

As Panasonic works it sounds not very probable. In reality they will cut firmware developer teams. As Panasonic always had almost all team focused on one / two projects and never allow to return back. They can have few developers doing some updates, but no more.

And no need to post him hints like " if they want to charge another hundred bucks to fully implement it I'd be ok with that". In reality idea to charge for V LOG mostly came from their monitoring for feedback, if it had been less positive after info reveal they had been ready to make it free via firmware.

Yep

https://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/comment/202452#Comment_202452

https://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/13642/major-codecs-fragmentation-coming

But this is really dead end.

Take Google with VP9. As the only reason to have VP9 for them is to reduce H.264 payments. Here it is all same.

Camera companies also are afraid of HEVC as shareholders want every dollar in their pockets and it is few dollars more if you keep H.264.

Thing you see is called capitalists greed. Reason why so called ultra imperialism still did not happen. Same here. They always... almost agree. But not entirely, someone still want to get the chessboard and smack onto your head. Like Rambus did.

Same thing is with raw, as here RED plays role of Zaxcom in audio. Being reason of stupid Cinema DNG made to circle around their patent and reason of mostly bad compression used by other cameras for raw.

Sure, however without the 'capitalist' situation we would not have HVEC in first place (we may have something better - I don't know).

For sure something better and simpler. One of the goals of HEVC development is to put many irrelevant patents of companies who participated into standard.

HEVC was developed in order to be licensed and make cash. So other companies now want to develop different solution that costs 'them' less cash.

I really do not care that companies want. In reality HEVC parts was developed by countless people many of whom have no relation to participating companies at all, and in turn all this is based on foundations developed by another big number of people.

Attempt to have private profits in the highly social society always goes against common good. It is especially visible in software and computer hardware.

Take AMD processors. This guys sell you exact same 8 core thing with 4 frequency variants, 6 core variants, and few 4 core variants. Around 90% of sold processors could have more cores enabled or an work at higher frequency. This is how capitalism is causing multi billion damage to society common interests.

Camera companies flooded the market with multiple models with few differences between them. Meanwhile phone cameras became good enough to replace compact cameras. Hopefully they will simplify product lines and create great cameras without so many crippled features and with better ergonomics.

Well, as users if the equipment, it's kind of our job to work out what works best for what we want to do, and navigate the situation, and be resourceful in our decisions.

Will we make mistakes? Sure. But we as users can maximise the hardware & software by pooling our knowledge together and sharing our findings. This is why product reviews are so popular on YouTube, and why we are all so interested in PV & similar forums.

Even in a perfect situation I'm sure there would still be products that are no up to scratch. There are so many variables when making something, raw elements- design, human error. Even with very strict control issues can enter into product rollout.

And you are doing a great job assisting capitalists with PV.