Will Your TV Even Work With The Steam Machine?

When Valve announced the new Steam Machine, one detail stood out:
the HDMI port says 2.1… but SteamOS can’t actually use HDMI 2.1 features.

So what’s going on?

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Timestamps:
00:00 – Intro
00:41 – What is HDMI?
01:21 – HDMI 2.1
03:36 – The real issue
05:23 – Summary

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