HDMI Forum to AMD: No, you can’t make an open source HDMI 2.1 driver

https://arstechnica.com/?p=2006935

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MonkderZweite@feddit.ch · 12 pts · 2y (2 replies)

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

MrPoopbutt@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Money.

Hollywood execs love their DRM.

MonkderZweite@feddit.ch · 3 pts · 2y

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

elxeno@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 2y

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

Rayspekt@kbin.social · 1 pts · 2y

Fuck anybody that goes against open standards.