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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Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 7 months agoYou 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.
frezik@midwest.social 7 months ago
mp3@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
For cheap gizmos I can see a chinese seller getting away with it, but not a large business like Roku.
halva@discuss.tchncs.de 7 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.