Why won't Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1?
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4 hours ago
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| arstechnica.com
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greatgib
49 minutes ago
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Sad that the European union are slow lazy institutions when defending citizen rights is needed, because otherwise it would worth a good anti-trust procedure against the HDMI forum and its members in my opinion!
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0xC0ncord
3 hours ago
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deepsun
2 hours ago
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Why don't they use DisplayPort 2.1? It's just superior. Why stick to HDMI?

No wonder why Apple took DisplayPort-Mini port for their Thunderbolt interface. Back in 2011!

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giancarlostoro
17 minutes ago
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Call me ignorant and feel free to correct me but I thought DisplayPort didnt support audio?
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gh02t
2 hours ago
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Presumably because most people want to plug it into a TV, and supporting both would add cost.
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thfuran
1 hour ago
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I'd buy a SteamTV that's a good panel with a decent soc, DP instead of HDMI, and no webshit.
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giancarlostoro
17 minutes ago
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An no “Smart” bullshit, just a good device that syncs up to all your gaming devices.
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gridlocdev
1 hour ago
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It’s unfortunate the HDMI forum is dragging their feet on this, but it’s kind of the nature of their business model so I’m not holding my breath waiting for things to resolve.

To use Linux at 4k at a high refresh rate with a TV or other screen that only has HDMI ports, they sell high-performance DisplayPort to HDMI adapter cords for like $30 on Amazon. My Bazzite machine works just fine on a 4K tv at 120hz, and even enables HDR now which it didn’t before with the regular HDMI cord.

If the HDMI forum thing doesn’t work out, I totally could see Valve offering a DP to HDMI cable just so folks don’t need to do extra searching to get the best performance out of their new hardware.

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