The HEVC Advance group – set up as a rival patent pool to the MPEG LA for the next generation video codec standard – has signed up MediaTek, but has also said it would “look again” at its policy of charging content owners for HEVC patent licences, and would come out with a new deal shortly. While MediaTek’s addition is not enough to swing the vote in one direction or another, the Taiwanese chipmaker does own MStar, which has around a 70% market share of smart TV chips globally, so it is clearly influential. The MPEG LA grouping has 32 members, but these include the two smartphone leaders, Apple and Samsung, as well as Asian broadcasters and operators (NHK of…