Valve tells Ars its “trying to unblock” limits caused by open source driver issues.

Valve tells Ars its “trying to unblock” limits caused by open source driver issues.

        • shani66@ani.socialEnglish
          5·
          4 hours ago

          Hey now, organized crime usually has an element of giving back to the community, it’s much more ethical than this!

        • Croquette@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          5 hours ago

          The HDMI Forum blocks open source implementations of their spec. They want to keep it closed source so they can charge whatever they want to use their standards.

          Big content creators (Disney, Netflix, etc) want TV manufacturers to keep using HDMI because the standard includes a DRM protocol.

      • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
        32·
        16 hours ago

        And they’re allowed to. But this is not that.

        …the HDMI Forum (which manages the official specifications for HDMI standards) has officially blocked any open source implementation of HDMI 2.1. That means the open source AMD drivers used by SteamOS can’t fully implement certain features that are specific to the updated output standard.