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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.

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The problem is that many TVs have HDMI, but no DP.

[–] AshLassay@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Then buy a DP to HDMI 2.1 dongle

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

No problem for me, but many consumers don't think that far.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

What we want is a solution for customers who don't understand the benefit of DP and won't buy an adapter when there's already HDMI ports on both devices.

[–] Ronno@feddit.nl 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wouldn't an HDMI to DP cable work then?

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It probably would, but that is already to complicated for most people.

[–] madjo@feddit.nl 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Not if Valve packed it in with the Steam Machine.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

That would be a nice idea, indeed.