Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama.

• Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And they’re allowed to. But this is not that.

  …the HDMI Forum (which manages the official specifications for HDMI standards) has officially blocked any open source implementation of HDMI 2.1. That means the open source AMD drivers used by SteamOS can’t fully implement certain features that are specific to the updated output standard.

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  • FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I can think of a money reason to block open source implementations…

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• grue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sure, so does organized crime. What’s your point?

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  • 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!

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  • 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.

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