HDMI Organization Adds Source-Based Tone Mapping to HDMI 2.1a – Computer – News

I think we do too, but when the spec says “HDMI 2.1” you just expect that you can expect the same. When you buy a Canon EF-S lens, you expect it to fit on any EF-S mount, don’t you?

Today you buy a console with an HDMI 2.1 output, an AVR with HDMI 2.1 inputs and outputs, a TV with HDMI 2.1 inputs and also cables with a nice HDMI 2.1 sticker. And then you have neither picture nor sound. What’s the point of a default if it doesn’t define anything except options?

I could live with the fact that they have variants a, b, c, d, e, etc. (as they are apparently going to do now?), and that you can see that the XSX has HDMI 2.1afg, and a LG TV maybe HDMI 2.1bcd, then at least you know it will or won’t fit (or what you need).

But actually it’s ridiculous. A standard must describe minimum requirements and give assurance to the user that you get what it says. Now that label is worthless because you don’t know what’s behind it.

It’s also not that the numbers and letters are almost gone, that they have to be so frugal or anything. The laziness is really on the side of the people who write these kinds of standards. And it’s damn hard not to think this was done deliberately to defraud consumers. (And as far as I’m concerned, it’s incomprehensible that someone like Vestager has not yet started at least a warning and preferably an investigation against this kind of USB and HDMI practices).

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