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Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux (www.heise.de)
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The HDMI Forum, responsible for the HDMI specification, continues to stonewall open source. Valve's Steam Machine theoretically supports HDMI 2.1, but the mini-PC is software-limited to HDMI 2.0. As a result, more than 60 frames per second at 4K resolution are only possible with limitations.

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[-] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 62 points 6 months ago

It's $1.2M to gain majority share on the HDMI board, but it sure would be nice if someone gave $1.2M to one of the engineers with access to that cryptographic DRM keys for the binary to "apparently get hacked" and have the keys magically appear online.

[-] falseWhite@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Wouldn't make it legal to use them anyway and a big company like steam couldn't get away with it.

It would still be great for the open source community working on personal projects and such

[-] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

I bet we would start to see chinese adapters showing up on the market with DisplayPort to HDMI2.1 though.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 6 months ago

Oh yeah, and and they would mostly be terrible, except one brand no one has ever heard of but, it's apparently a big name in China, and called something like Zloks would inexplicably be the king of that particular niche product.

[-] bluGill@fedia.io 6 points 6 months ago

You can/should write your congressman (or equivalent in your country). Just the threat that if OSS can't use HDMI congress will open up the laws will get action. In a democracy voters have more power than big money when they care and vote like it.

[-] titanicx@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 months ago

Hahaahahhaaa omg, you're adorable.

[-] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Could work in the EU.

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