What do you guys think of the HTML 5 language? I can't wait to use the video tag. I hope all the places that use flash convert over to this and Adobe shrivels up into a little ball and dies.
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It could be competitive (as opposed to embarrassing, see Theora), but there's no way it would even approach the level of quality you get out of h.264. Not even close.
Designing a video codec with "dodge patents" as an objective is a losing proposition.
See also http://www.openmediacommons.org/ for Sun's trick pony on this race - it looks better than Theora (on paper), yet for some reason nobody seemed to notice its existence.