Technically, the Steam Machine supports HDMI 2.1. However, Valve and AMD are not allowed to offer an open-source driver for it.

The HDMI Forum, responsible for the HDMI specification, continues to stonewall open source. Valve’s Steam Machine theoretically supports HDMI 2.1, but the mini-PC is software-limited to HDMI 2.0. As a result, more than 60 frames per second at 4K resolution are only possible with limitations.

    • watson@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I have an old iMac that I use as a Plex server, and it has a firewire 800 port and a thunderbolt 1 port, both of which I use for a couple of very old external drive enclosures. Sure as hell beats USB 2.0.

      • Asmodeus_Krang@infosec.pubEnglish
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        20 hours ago

        I believe it was only utilized by Gran Turismo 3 for connecting two systems to play against each other. Nobody else developed for it.