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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I had no idea, thanks for the info

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 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.