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AMD HDMI2.1 proposal rejected by HDMI forum (gitlab.freedesktop.org)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 131 points 10 months ago (18 children)

Since we now have confirmation that an open implementation is legally impossible I would consider the HDMI forum to be a cartel and not a standarts comitee. Therefore it should be dismantled by anti-trust authorities asap.

[–] LufyCZ 29 points 10 months ago (16 children)

But displayport exists, is widely used and is free?

[–] [email protected] 41 points 10 months ago (2 children)

DP is very much not free. VESA themselves is happy to tell you that DisplayPort is excluded from their list of free standards, and the leaked copies of old standards are stamped with a "distribution to non-members is prohibited" notice on every page.

I'm not sure where that misconception came from, but it really needs to stop at some point. The best thing to say about VESA is they're slightly less bad than the HDMI Forum. But only by so little.

[–] LufyCZ 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I had no idea, thanks for the info

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

DP also has the DRMs HDCP 2.2 and DisplayPort content protection 1.0

And MPEG LA claims they have patents that are needed to implement the DP standard.

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