Oh, well fuck HDMI then

  • potatopotato@sh.itjust.works
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    7 个月前

    Hardware person here, these standards groups are getting out of control. They want thousands of dollars from anyone who wants to make anything compatible with their specs and while hardware and drivers are becoming cheaper and easier than ever to get into, they have become the main roadblock.

    It’s like the MP3 days all over again.

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      Yeah, I wanted to implement HDMI on an FPGA dev board last year until I found out that I literally couldn’t without getting that license.

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        Isn’t it possible to make something that’s technically compatible with HDMI as long as you don’t call it HDMI, or say it uses HDMI. I’ve seen different projects go that route, maybe you might be able to as well.

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    I’ve already started preferring displayport for monitors. Now I’m going to prefer monitors without HDMI at all, if they exist.

    Any TVs come with DP?

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        DP is by VESA, who brought you such bangers as VGA, DVI, standardised mounting systems, DDC (which enables EDID), EDID.
        Although there is controversy about them not supplying the standards documentation for free, i dont believe it is licences

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      Some newer TVs come with DP over USB-C.

      There’s also the option of getting a DP to HDMI converter. I’m personally waiting for one that supports DP 2.0, along with VRR and HDR10+. There’s a DP 1.4 one right now, but AFAIK it uses DSC to display the full 4k120, which isn’t lossless.