ruffslHDMI Forum Rejects Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Driver Support Sought By AMD - Phoronix
f00f/erisThis really bothers me. Closed standards locked behind a licensing fee may as well not be standards at all, in my opinion.
TurboWafflzI don’t understand why any hardware uses HDMI anymore anyway, what does it have that displayport doesn’t?
Decades of being the standard in a/v. That’s like asking, why don’t we get rid of gas stations and just install electric chargers? Well, everybody’s got gas powered cars.
AV things sure since they stick around longer, but computers? When was the last time you saw a high end GPU with VGA or DVI? And they already usually have mostly DisplayPort with just one or two HDMI ports
Well, I wasn’t referring to that ecosystem. That ecosystem is already on display port. The reason HDMI is so prevalent is because it’s the standard in audio-visual equipment. Why would I talk about computer equipment when it’s not the standard there?
And where’s the problem in that? My parents still use a soon 20 years old plasma tv. But they’re getting old too.
kroldenComputers are AV things.
Today. Every time I go downstairs.
TimeSquirrelHDMI only had about four good years to itself before DisplayPort showed up. In contrast, the RCA port stuck around for damn near 100 years.
We also didn’t have digital signals till DVI in 1999, HDMI in 2002 and display port in 2006