An upcoming Rethink investigation into the video codecs market has produced this graph. What it shows is how the required bandwidth for streaming video to a device was surpassed years ago. What this means for a new codec promising bandwidth savings is a point of contention. The lighter blue dashed line represents the global average mobile data bandwidth. It grows from 0.25 Mbps in 2009, to 25 Mbps in 2015, 93 Mbps in 2020, and is around 178 Mbps currently. For fixed-line broadband, it increased from essentially 1 Mbps in 2004, to 9 Mbps in 2009, to just over 50 in 2016, to 78 Mbps in 2020, and now sits at around 93.5 Mbps. The horizontal lines represent the bandwidth…