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Re:A free/open computer on a card that you swap in and out o... by chriswarbo on Friday August 05, 2016 @02:29PM (#12234722)
> Perhaps a better idea would be something like an HDMI computer - a stick that carries everything and is pluggable into a regular TV, but that's invented already.

Would it even be possible to make a free/libre machine which uses HDMI? One of the reasons I don't use HDMI/HD equipment is because of they use DRM (and, of course, because there's nothing wrong with my VGA equipment)

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Re:A free/open computer on a card that you swap in and out o... by wolrah on Friday August 05, 2016 @03:51PM (#12235287)
HDMI does not mandate HDCP. You can use it as just DVI with audio if you want. That's the default mode for all PCs and the Xbox consoles, which only switch to HDCP mode if you try to play DRM-protected content like Blurays.

PS3 is shitty and runs in HDCP mode all the time, but that's Sony for you.

As far as I'm aware even on HDCP-compliant hardware none of the Linux drivers can even use it if they wanted to.

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Re:A free/open computer on a card that you swap in and out o... by lkcl on Saturday August 13, 2016 @02:09PM (#12282401)
the DRM on HDMI is so broken - even the master key has been reverse-engineered - that it's completely open, now.
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