Comment Re:Realmedia codec (Score 1) 182
Google acquired WebM only a couple of years ago and specs for it were released then. It takes YEARS before it'll start to come out.with hardware decoders. (I remember dealing with h.264 encoded files back in what, 2004? When practically nothing played it, and DivX was the popular codec of the day). WebM in hardware will probably start happening around 2013-2014 at the earliest (as in - you can buy devices with webm support).
I would say the years have passed and the hardware is coming out this year: http://blog.webmproject.org/2012/03/webm-gaining-momentum-in-hardware.html