HP and Dell cut HEVC support in some laptops

HP and Dell has disabled support for the High-Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard in some of their laptops, Ars Technica reports.

HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs

Laptops with sixth-generation Intel Core and later processors have built-in hardware support for HEVC decoding and encoding.

Dell and HP turned off HEVC decoding on recent laptops without telling anyone

Users on various forums have been troubleshooting video playback errors on newer Dell and HP laptops over the past few weeks. While the specific issues vary, ...