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HDMI Forum to AMD: No, you can’t make an open source HDMI 2.1 driver (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Why is there a widely used protocol with no public specification available?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Money.

Hollywood execs love their DRM.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ah, right, the illegal HDMI-splitters. 🤪🐦

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Not just widely used, but a monopoly. TVs don't come with any other ports and now they're restricting who can use this technology that has no other choice.

There needs to be an antitrust lawsuit against the HDMI forum IMO.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Is it because of the HDMI Forum that we don't have HDMI-CEC on desktop GPUs?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Fuck anybody that goes against open standards.