cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/12544593

Alex Deucher:

The HDMI Forum has rejected our proposal unfortunately. At this time an open source HDMI 2.1 implementation is not possible without running afoul of the HDMI Forum requirements.

  • @MrPoopbutt
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    4010 months ago

    Because the movie studio execs like their hdcp drm

    • @filister
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      2210 months ago

      Which in a lot of cases can be easily removed with adding an HDMI splitter in between. Fuck DRM!

    • @merthyr1831
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      1010 months ago

      Which is funny because of how easy it is to circumvent