Antwort auf: Philips: TV Firmware Downgrade Anleitung

Searching emails from 2021 this is exact language used:

Regarding the recent changes, indeed, we stopped supporting AVI container videos because it is an old proprietary format and in order to comply with its copyright rules, we had to drop the support for it.

won’t post the case number, i guess those who know can get it if need be..

a bit of a joke.. such devices should play all formats at the get-go, without any updates, and certainly not remove, but, “licensing” , lovely concept – open source is the answer and it’s coming faster than we can hope :)