People won't buy AMD chips if they can't play Blu-rays or Netflix or use commercial software?
It's not a thing today, but it's not hard seeing the world go that way in the future once the legacy BIOS uses are finally aged out.
It's not a thing today, but it's not hard seeing the world go that way in the future once the legacy BIOS uses are finally aged out.
The onus is on us to make sure that a future where we are locked out of the devices we own does not come to pass.
4k Bluray requires Kaby Lake or newer (I don't know whether it works on Ryzen or not) and HDMI 2.0a with HDCP 2.2.
1080p requires Internet Explorer, Edge, or Safari on Windows or MacOS¹.
4k in the webapp requires Edge in addition to the hardware requirements wolfgke lists.
Agreed. Just look at the root situation in android. Banking apps, netflix and even snapchat won't work on a rooted phone. It's absolutely bullshit, but it's normal now. Same can and will happen for PCs.