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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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But why does the HDMI fourm not want a open source 2.1-compliant implementation? Is it DRM related? I feel like it’s DRM related.

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@Buelldozer@lemmy.today · Dec 10

But why does the HDMI forum not want a open source 2.1-compliant implementation? To my knowledge they’ve never officially said but you can be sure that it has to do with Content Protection and that means DRM. An Open Source HDMI 2.1+ driver would make pirating much simpler, probably trivial, using Linux based PCs. It’s possible anyway of course but there are a couple of hardware hoops to jump through and that’s enough to keep most people from doing it.

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