The original move was especially idiotic given that tech savvy users of their products - a rather significant proportion - were able to easily add their existing HDDs to the accepted drivers DB. All they accomplished was making a bunch of techies rather pissed off.

Burn the goodwill of your power users and act surprised when they stop recommending your product.

I have an asustor. If anyone is looking for a NAS, I recommend that. It’s a decent little device.

Now do hardware transcoding.

It’s almost like the entire policy was pointless and a blatant manipulation tactic.

Ha ha, enjoy being bought out by a competitor