I decided to waste 5 minutes of my life I'll never get back, actually reading VESA's press release. They actually said these new monitors ridiculous brightness ( offering higher than 1000 nit) will bring in people working in creative endeavors. These idiots are willfully ignorant. And the testing they're proposing does nothing at all to improve on the flaws that make every photographer who buys a Mac studio monitor from throwing it away after a year or two of losing fights over color accuracy...
They don't even attempt to correct the primary flaw of OLED monitors, the one that every color accurate monitor manufacturer can explain in 10 seconds... OLED monitors burn themselves out after several thousand hours. Specifically the blues fade and turn yellow. With cheaper monitors it'll happen after 2-4000 hours of use. But even the most expensive will suffer after 5k hours. I'll attach a picture of my IPS proofing monitors current backlight hours, to put it into perspective... a monitor I last had to adjust after a calibration when I upgraded my GPU in 2021, good IPS monitors don't drift from their settings, while OLED monitors become impossible to calibrate, and won't produce accurate colors, becoming e-waste to a photographer, after 2-4 years of 8 hours a day usage.
Yep. 22,400 hours of use on this IPS monitor. I wonder why there's no endurance test for these new certifications...
VESA does a lot of things, including the DisplayPort standard. Unlike HDMI, that's royalty-free.
Wait, lmao... you just went through that whole ethering of VESA and earnestly thought "well, they obviously dont know about display port, lemme fix that". I don't even particularly mind display port, the betamax of A/V cables. I use them on the (better for color accuracy than VESA's new highest standard ever) 2007 HP monitors. And yes, I do sleep better knowing they're not charging the exorbitant idk, I think 10 cents a device HDMI charges. Anyways, VESA is a bit like FIFA, or the NFL, of whichever industry funded umbrella org you prefer. You may love watching the world cup or the superbowl, and cheer on a new rule you think is great... but they don't give two tosses about the customers happiness, they have one job. To make the members who fund it, more money, any good idea is thoroughly coincidental. In this particular case, by saying there's a whole new, never before seen standard of excellence in OLED monitors, that you'll NEED to buy for several hundred to a thousand bucks... while knowingly burying how the ability of those monitors to even meet the standards that earned them that fancy sticker, will be measured in months. Very likely under 5k hours, and being worthless e-waste by 8k hours max, while being completely non-color accurate. Even the standards they released only test that each shade the monitor produces, meets a luminance mark, not the correct frequency/wavelength. That tells you everything you need to know about how unserious they are. Or how all testing is done at one static temp, after a full warmup is completed... while the biggest problem with monitors not designed for professional work, is how as little as several degrees C Can throw throw the color/brightness calibrations wildly off. So yeah, an extremely useless certification, with testing that only stresses panel refresh rate and that they meet the absurd brightness levels nobody has ever asked for from desktop monitors. Every single brand new Eizo pro monitor, with the exception of their prettyidiotic $28k idiot tax (the CG1 prominance has a brightness of 1000, but I have never ever seen one used by a working photographer, it's the monitor version of a track day only hypercar), every monitor they produce at the moment for creatives/color accurate production has a brightness of 350-450. And those are still several thousand dollars (and all IPS).