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.

  • mox
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    169 months ago

    HDMI did have a head start, but nowadays, the answer is money. As usual.

    • @spongebue
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      19 months ago

      That also includes money to upgrade, for example, display equipment in virtually every office conference room, classroom, home theater, etc. It took a long time to shake VGA in those settings and now that that’s largely been dropped in favor of HDMI it’ll be a tall order to chase after the next best thing with no benefit noticeable to 99.9% of people.

      • mox
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        19 months ago

        Fair, but the same was said about USB. We got there eventually.