Technically, the Steam Machine supports HDMI 2.1. However, Valve and AMD are not allowed to offer an open-source driver for it.

The HDMI Forum, responsible for the HDMI specification, continues to stonewall open source. Valve’s Steam Machine theoretically supports HDMI 2.1, but the mini-PC is software-limited to HDMI 2.0. As a result, more than 60 frames per second at 4K resolution are only possible with limitations.

  • count_dongulus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    64·
    1 day ago

    It’s $1.2M to gain majority share on the HDMI board, but it sure would be nice if someone gave $1.2M to one of the engineers with access to that cryptographic DRM keys for the binary to “apparently get hacked” and have the keys magically appear online.

    • falseWhite@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      1 day ago

      Wouldn’t make it legal to use them anyway and a big company like steam couldn’t get away with it.

      It would still be great for the open source community working on personal projects and such

        • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
          1·
          2 hours ago

          Oh yeah, and and they would mostly be terrible, except one brand no one has ever heard of but, it’s apparently a big name in China, and called something like Zloks would inexplicably be the king of that particular niche product.

      • bluGill@fedia.io
        63·
        1 day ago

        You can/should write your congressman (or equivalent in your country). Just the threat that if OSS can’t use HDMI congress will open up the laws will get action. In a democracy voters have more power than big money when they care and vote like it.