Software companies are making operating systems and applications as many other hardware firms are making smartphones, tablets, TVs, PCs & silicon. Agreeing the support for certain video coding formats play an important role in key industry players in order to give experience best to the user, minimizing the network use and supporting a huge variation of devices.

For this very reason, the AV1 video codec has been created by Open Media Alliance. This helps in transmitting the video efficiently via the internet with the usage of minimum quality. The most amazing part is that it is royalty-free so that companies don’t have to worry about the licensing fees as they don’t have to pay. Unfortunately, this is something that will take time for the users to adopt.  We also believed that it may be adopted in the year 2021. Very frequently Google is showing promotions of AV1 video decoding will be supporting all-new Android TV products.

On the other side, AV1 is getting popular among users day by day for the online streaming and consumption of media, some of the videos that are encoded in AV1 are also streaming on YouTube on the selected Android TV devices, Vimeo did the same as it is streaming on Staff Picks channel in AV1. Netflix is also streaming the selected titles in AV1 while activating the data saving mode. Google is the biggest supporter of AV1 and also revealed the plans for using AV1 for Google video applications and services the entire range.

If they want AV1 adoption to happen on a large scale then they need to introduce many more devices to decode AV1 to hardware. It is also mandatory for ensuring the increment in the speed of video playback and efficiency of power. In conclusion, Google ensures that all new Android TV devices will be launched after March 31, 2021, which will support video decode.

In this year all the new TV devices that will launch will have Android 10 and Android 11 in them. According to XDA, an internal slide was reviewed that was a part of the PowerPoint presentation that was held by Google for its last year's Android partners. However, any response is not given by Google yet so it is not genuine to say if this deadline is up to date or not. When the article was published we noticed that this news has already leaked in a newsletter on October 29, 2020, by Janko Roettgers.    

The future Android TV devices are required to have AV1 support by Google and this was clearly seen. All the Android TV devices such as 4K HDR and 8K will be requiring video decoding support and will be launched with Android 10.  This was also mentioned by the industry that the 4K HDR Android TV device that introduced recently in the market was dispatched with an AV1-compatible SoC, likewise MediaTek T30/T31/T32 i.e. Realtek RTD 2851M. Also TLC’s X915 8K TV is supporting AV1 decode. Realtek RTD2851M SoC along with RTD2893 will make it the first TVs which will be supporting 8K videos on YouTube. After few time they will expand the availability to all the products of Android TV which will only be done by Google.

Furthermore, AV1 video decode will be powered by the entire 2021 TV lineup as it was disclosed and confirmed by a TV brand. As per the report by FlatPanelsHD, all the TV’s launched by Sony in 2021 will be supporting AV1 video decoding. Sony will also dispatch the left TV stock with the Android TV and be continuing this year. Apart from that TCL was also asked if in the year 2021, AV1 hardware decodes will exist in the Google TV series but the appropriate answer was not given.

Samsung & LG both have their own operating system and start installing the AV1 support to some of the TVs that are supporting royalty-free codec. Devices like tablets, smartphones, and PCs will also be getting the support of AV1 video. Samsung’s Exynos 2100 & MediaTek’s Density 1000 mobile chipsets, Intel’s 11th-gen processors, NVIDIA’s RTX 30 series GPUs, and AMD’s Radeon RX 6000 series GPUs will also support AV1 decoding.

As a result of this, the device will work better on their quality, the display will be improved. As this will be convenient and beneficial for the user as this is the priority one. 


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