StrangerGuy
Diamond Member
The sadly ironic part of all of this is that likely all of these devices have hardware HEVC decode support built into the SoC (which started with Apple's A8/A8X), but it's not used because of stupid licencing issues. It's a total #$&*@$ mess.
My $160 Mi Max plays 1080p HEVC with zero issues and there's no pesky iTunes to deal with on file transfers across USB. Video on a whole is a zillion times better on Android.