Maybe. Nobody uses the BBC codecs because they aren't really next gen. They're alright, but the industry has agreed on many-vendor international consortiums to develop codecs, and their outputs are always the best codecs available. Those are the ones that get turned into hardware acceleration chips which you need these days to be adopted and competitive.
It's not really clear why the BBC spends money on duplicating this research instead of contributing its ideas to HEVC, AVC etc like everyone else does. Easy to argue that's a waste of tax money. (I'm also British).
It's not really clear why the BBC spends money on duplicating this research instead of contributing its ideas to HEVC, AVC etc like everyone else does. Easy to argue that's a waste of tax money. (I'm also British).