Ghosts S02e14 Openh264 -

For all the talk of “the cloud” and “infinite scalability,” digital distribution is still run by humans making fallible decisions. A single engineer’s late-night choice of a non-standard codec creates a permanent artifact. In 50 years, when a film student tries to watch Ghosts Season 2 on a vintage hard drive, will their media player support OpenH264? Probably. But the fact that we have to ask the question is the point.