The release of 8K monitors using DisplayPort 2.0 was originally expected in late 2020, but standards body VESA says because of the worldwide impacts of the coronavirus, they are not expected now until some point later in 2021.
Almost two years since the standard for DisplayPort 2.0 was published and promised up to 16K monitors, none have gone on sale. Now the Video Electronic Standards Association (VESA) says they were delayed by the pandemic, but are coming in 2021.
“Monitors supporting DisplayPort 2.0 are currently in development, but none have been released to market yet,” a VESA spokesperson told The Verge. “DisplayPort 2.0 is working now in new system chips that should appear in products later in 2021.”
The pandemic meant that VESA’s “Plugtests” events were cancelled. Typically both hardware developers and engineers test out systems and interoperability at Plugtests, and the events are key to the development of the displays.
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