With the recent confirmation of the VVC (Versatile Video Coding) royalty terms for the two patent pools Access Advance and MPEG LA, it is worth exploring the impact of these fees on the video device marketplace – and what better way than abusing a spreadsheet? It appears, based on volume pricing, that Sisvel’s AV1 is cheaper than AVC at small volumes for OEMs, and that Velos Media – the third HEVC licensing group – is wildly distorting the MPEG market. As the example scenario, we chose to focus on a smartphone, and charted three different shipment scales – a small run of 3.5 million units, a medium run of 30 million, and a large run of 300 million. Plotting the…