Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads

mp3@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• I_like_cats@lemmy.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The HDMI forum is run by big companies so that is not happening, sorry

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• wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The bastards that control the hdmi standard: yeah!

  Roku: 💰

  Bastards: actually no

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Me: 💰💰

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• Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s not like they ever properly implemented it in the first place.

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  • SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m mad that they did their broken implementation of sending control codes between devices that never works. I have to disable it on everything so that the correct input gets set.

    And then they are killing the universal remote industry so there is nothing to replace it with.

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• Jimmycakes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You know HDMI is not some big secret they can use it without the license and ship from overseas like 90% of shit shipped from China.

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  • mp3@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    For cheap gizmos I can see a chinese seller getting away with it, but not a large business like Roku.

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    • halva@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Funnily enough, Flipper did exactly that and the Zero is still doing fine. It’s a loophole, but it does seem to be working fine-ish.

      HDMI Forum have instead resorted to taking GPU manufacturers hostage because they don’t want any specs leaking, that’s why AMD were denied being allowed to support latest HDMI in their free Linux drivers.

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  • frezik@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That only works if you’re headquartered in China.

    Not that the HDMI Fourm will stop them, anyway More likely, the companies involved will want to license Roku’s patent.

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