Fuck you HDMI Forum

I really hope we'll see TVs with DisplayPort one day.

💸 (and control) is the reason.

If you want change you got to direct your comments to the HDMI forum. Here we can talk about it forever and if they never see anything they won't change. I sent the following email to: admin@hdmiforum.org

Dear HDMI Forum,

I was recently saw the news that the HDMI forum was blocking open source implementations of the HDMI 2.1 specifications and I want to express that I really believe this is a bad idea. I hope the HDMI Forum will consider allowing it. I can't say I understand what the concern is or the reason for blocking it but I really doubt that whatever issue is envisioned will actually come to fruition, instead I believe that allowing open source implementations will be beneficial for adoption of the standard and since if I understand correctly the licensing fees are based on hardware sold so having open source code will of course not exempt anyone from HDMI licensing rules.

Thank you so much for your consideration,

(Name)

Maybe it's not perfect (I already wished I worded one sentence better) but I think what matters most is just trying your best and using your voice whenever you can. Be sure to send your email too, the more they receive hopefully the higher the chances that this works but of course be sure to use your own wording, I just put that here for an example.

maybe there is an actual explanation for HDMI Forum’s decision that I am missing.

HDMI has never been an open standard (to the best of my understanding anyway). You've always needed to be an adopter or a member of HDMI forum to get the latest (or future) specs. So it's not like they've just rejected a new idea. The rejection is fully consistent with their entire history of keeping the latest versions on lockdown.

Standards organizations like HDMI Forum look like a monolith from the outside (like "they should explain their thinking here") but really they are loosely coupled amalgamations of hundreds of companies, all of whom are working hard to make sure that (a) their patents are (and remain) essential, and that (b) nothing mandatory in a new version of the standard threatens their business. Think of it more like the UN General Assembly than a unified group of participants. Their likely isn't a unified thinking other than that many Forum members are also participants in the patent licensing pool, so giving away something for which they collect royalties is just not a normal thought. Like.... they're not gonna give something away without getting something in return.

I was a member of HDMI Forum for a brief while. Standards bodies like tihs are a bit of a weird world where motivations are often quite opaque.

Can we just do display port then?

That's why HDMI needs to die and display port needs to take over. The TV industry is too big for that to happen of course. They make a shit ton of money off of HDMI

but maybe there is an actual explanation for HDMI Forum’s decision that I am missing.

Licensing money.

The HDMI forum blow goats, every month, by the silvery light of the moon.

AMD should remove the HDMI port from all of their GPUs as a nice F.U. to the HDMI forum. They shouldn't be paying the licensing fees if they are not allowed to make full use of the hardware.

let's make usb and displayport open-source drivers. seriously!

Time to kill HDMI with USB 4/TB bring those cost way down.

Yes, this isn't new but it's resurfacing thanks to the Steam Machine. Basically (off my memory), part of your title is accurate: AMD did create a FOSS driver with HDMI 2.1 which does not violate HDMI forum requirements, but the HDMI forum still vetoed it. I don't know if it would necessarily "disclose the specification" as the first part of your title suggests, but I didn't dig into the details enough to say for certain.

Basically a dick move by HDMI. Maybe Valve can push their weight on this, we'll see.

this is not new, but its time for the hdmi forum to fade into irrelevance

Be a damn shame if someone leaked the driver.

Be a shame if it leaked on the internet.