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.

  • Imacat@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 days ago

    It’s more of a barrier for people who are pirating media, not the ones consuming that pirated media.

    • leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Don’t they mostly download it directly from streaming platforms these days, skipping the display and its connector altogether…?