VESA Elevates PC and Laptop HDR Display Performance with Updated DisplayHDR Specification
BEAVERTON, Ore., May 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA®) today announced that it has published a major update to its widely adopted High-Performance Monitor and Display Compliance Test Specification (DisplayHDR), which launched the display industry's first fully open standard specifying high dynamic range (HDR) quality. The updated spec, DisplayHDR version 1.2, includes significantly tighter performance requirements, including for luminance, color gamut and bit depth, as well as several new test requirements for color accuracy, contrast ratio, black levels, and subtitle flicker, to address recent advances in display technology.
- To date, more than 3000 display models have been certified to the DisplayHDR standard.
- First introduced in 2017, the DisplayHDR CTS has undergone several revisions to include higher-performance tiers, new display technologies and substantially tighter specifications.
- In addition to improving and expanding several tests, VESA added several entirely new performance tests to DisplayHDR v1.2.
- "With the VESA DisplayHDR 1.2 release we continue to raise the quality and accuracy bar ensuring that customers can trust the quality of displays carrying the VESA DisplayHDR logo."