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.

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    18 hours ago

    Does it have to be companies? Could individual people just have 15k, and join? We just need 81 new members.

    • Dran@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      14 hours ago

      Unfortunately it not only has to be companies, but unless you are a producer of products that are HDMI certified already your membership will be denied. It would take a lot of fuckery to make that many corporations and not have all of their membership applications be denied. Also I’m not sure that it’s even a voting democracy in the traditional sense even if you could.

      • tty5@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        11 hours ago

        While doing that for 80 companies is not feasible I doubt all 80 members are opposed. Valve and AMD could talk to video card, monitor, laptop and handheld makers to pad the membership enough.

        As for the democracy question a quick skim of their bylaws suggests it’s close enough.

      • SleeplessCityLights@programming.devEnglish
        3·
        12 hours ago

        Don’t you just need to setup a run of HDMI devices and have 80 companies invest together as a group for manufacturing, then have each company put their own sticker on it.