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  • HDMI has a private company that owns the rights to it. They get to decide if you get to call yourself HDMI and they can sue you if you lie about it. They decide what new features HDMI implements. This is a proprietary standard. As a recent example, AMD wrote an open source driver for HDMI 2.1 that would allow 8k on any device using an AMD graphics card. The HDMI owners basically said “no, you can’t distribute this, shut the project down and write something proprietary.” This doesn’t help the consumer at all, and although they didn’t explicitly say it, HDMI probably made that decision because studios pay a lot of money to make it hard to pirate over HDMI.

    DisplayPort is an open standard. If you were to write the same AMD 8k driver for DisplayPort, they would say “great, we can’t stop you from using this anyways, so share as much as you like.” Open standards are better for consumers because they can improve more easily.