Comment on Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux
pivot_root@lemmy.world 5 days agoAs long as the manufacturers are competing against each other, that’s never going to happen.
The “gamer” consumer demographic has some of the most whiny, entitled vocal minorities. They’re going to endlessly complain about the next generation of console needing a special cable/dongle to connect to their TV, one of the manufacturers are going to fold, and then the other one is going to walk back the lack of HDMI because they don’t want to lose sales to their competitor.
Pistcow@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I mean we don’t use coax/channel 3 any longer. Just do it.
pivot_root@lemmy.world 5 days ago
That was something they could actually market to the consumer as a necessary upgrade, though.
Going from HDMI 2.1 to DisplayPort 2.1a doesn’t offer anything other than higher bandwidth, and not even high-end PCs are capable of pushing resolutions at high enough framerates for that bandwidth to have been the limiting factor for games.
Even though DisplayPort is objectively better than HDMI, the optics of replacing HDMI on consumer devices that are meant to be connected to TVs isn’t good. It will come across to consumers as an unnecessary, arbitrary change meant to push their TVs towards planned obsolescence.
They’re going to complain about it, the media will pick up on the story and try to turn it into a scandal, and then legislators and regulators will step in and make decisions based on limited understanding of the technical reasons. By that point, one of the console manufacturers will have been pressured into backing down and promise to keep HDMI in their next-gen console, and the other ones will have followed suit because they don’t want to lose sales over it.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Well how do YOU connect your NES up to your TV then???
bilb@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
I have actually been looking at modding an NES with HDMI (and other goodies) as a small project. There are various kits out there.