Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 2 months agoAssholes.
Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 2 months agoAssholes.
Croquette@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
They want to make money
Empricorn@feddit.nl 2 months ago
And they’re allowed to. But this is not that.
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I can think of a money reason to block open source implementations…
grue@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sure, so does organized crime. What’s your point?
shani66@ani.social 2 months ago
Hey now, organized crime usually has an element of giving back to the community, it’s much more ethical than this!
Croquette@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
The HDMI Forum blocks open source implementations of their spec. They want to keep it closed source so they can charge whatever they want to use their standards.
Big content creators (Disney, Netflix, etc) want TV manufacturers to keep using HDMI because the standard includes a DRM protocol.