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HDMI Forum Rejects Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Driver Support Sought By AMD - Phoronix (www.phoronix.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [M] to c/tech@pawb.social
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Oh, well fuck HDMI then

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[–] 47 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Hardware person here, these standards groups are getting out of control. They want thousands of dollars from anyone who wants to make anything compatible with their specs and while hardware and drivers are becoming cheaper and easier than ever to get into, they have become the main roadblock.

It's like the MP3 days all over again.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah, I wanted to implement HDMI on an FPGA dev board last year until I found out that I literally couldn't without getting that license.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Isn't it possible to make something that's technically compatible with HDMI as long as you don't call it HDMI, or say it uses HDMI. I've seen different projects go that route, maybe you might be able to as well.

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    • [–] 38 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I've already started preferring displayport for monitors. Now I'm going to prefer monitors without HDMI at all, if they exist.

    Any TVs come with DP?

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Is displayport a more open standard, or more open source friendly?

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    DP is by VESA, who brought you such bangers as VGA, DVI, standardised mounting systems, DDC (which enables EDID), EDID.
    Although there is controversy about them not supplying the standards documentation for free, i dont believe it is licences

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Some newer TVs come with DP over USB-C.

    There's also the option of getting a DP to HDMI converter. I'm personally waiting for one that supports DP 2.0, along with VRR and HDR10+. There's a DP 1.4 one right now, but AFAIK it uses DSC to display the full 4k120, which isn't lossless.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Unfortunately unlikely to both. The displays all likely have the same controller boards with HDMI support baked in. The TVs are going to be made for people who still have cable and streaming boxes, and unless something has changed, those are all HDMI. Unless a manufacturer not in the forum decides to make a display, I don't really see anything without HDMI existing.

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    • [–] 21 points 2 years ago

    Time to abandon HDMI then.

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    [–] 8 points 2 years ago*

    Is this a DRM thing?

    (Answer: possibly maybe)

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