HDMI Forum Rejects Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Driver Support Sought By AMD - Phoronix
HDMI Forum Rejects Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Driver Support Sought By AMD - Phoronix
Oh, well fuck HDMI then
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.
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.
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?
Is displayport a more open standard, or more open source friendly?
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.
That's a really good question!
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.
Time to abandon HDMI then.
Is this a DRM thing?
(Answer: possibly maybe)