[hedora]

Maybe AMD should just fork the spec, and freely license the result.

Nvidia and AMD already effectively forked the standard when they variable refresh rates. (Monitors supported it for amd or nvidia, but not both.)

[dmitrygr]

You cannot fork something you do not own the rights to. You'll have as much luck forking Harry Potter as you will forking HDMI.

[crest]

The question is what prevents someone from coming up with a digital video interface standard just happens to be 100% compatible with HDMI just with a sufficiently different label on the ports similar to "TF flash" instead of "microSD"?

[meepmorp]

Because all this shit is covered by patents and licensing, and a cutesy defense like "it's totally not HDMI, bro," would make the judge refer your counsel to disciplinary action because of how fucking frivolous it is.

[ChocolateGod]

I think it would just be easier and better to try and promote DisplayPort in the TV industry.

Would take about 10 years but would be worth it.

[account42]

It would be better but definitely not easier as the TV industry is pretty much a subset of the HDMI Forum.