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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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[–] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 324 points 4 days ago (54 children)

Console manufacturers all just need to switch to displayport to encourage tv manufacturers to do the same. No one's going to not buy a ps6 or steam machine because they have to use a little dp-hdmi adapter, but they might be a little more likely to choose a tv that doesn't need an adapter over one that does

[–] renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (11 children)

Ah, the Apple strategy of forcing a standard.

EDIT: By that I mean when Apple started putting USB (1.0) on their Macs back in the day to encourage more USB accessories. Not their proprietary (what was the old iPod connector called?) or lightning BS.

[–] watson@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (10 children)

You’re thinking of firewire, and that was not proprietary. Sony came up with that. I had a mini disc player with a firewire port. And thunderbolt, which is what they use now, is an evolution on firewire made by Apple, Sony, and Intel.

Both firewire and thunderbolt are superior to USB.

[–] Asmodeus_Krang@infosec.pub 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Got a Firewire port on my PS2. The only thing I've ever owned with Firewire and I never even used it.

[–] watson@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I have an old iMac that I use as a Plex server, and it has a firewire 800 port and a thunderbolt 1 port, both of which I use for a couple of very old external drive enclosures. Sure as hell beats USB 2.0.

[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I always wanted a way to use that jack, still have no clue what it was for

[–] Asmodeus_Krang@infosec.pub 1 points 3 days ago

I believe it was only utilized by Gran Turismo 3 for connecting two systems to play against each other. Nobody else developed for it.

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