DisplayPort 2.0 delayed due to the pandemic
In 2019, VESA (Video Electronics Standards Association) approved the standard for DisplayPort 2.0 and said that the first products with support for the new standard would appear at the end of last year (2020). This has not been the case and according to VESA this has been due to the ongoing pandemic.
Due to the pandemic, suppliers have not been able to meet during the year and carry out their so-called “plug tests”, something they usually do to check that gadgets from different suppliers play together according to different standards. A VESA spokesperson tells The Verge:
“In 2020 VESA had no PlugTests, which has slowed the deployment of DisplayPort 2.0. VESA is now planning our next PlugTest for this Spring in Taiwan, so we expect to get this process rolling again.”
DisplayPort 2.0 has been partially developed to be able to deliver data to 8K monitors as the standard can handle transfer speeds of up to 80Gbps, almost three times as much data as the current DipslayPort 1.4 standard can. DisplayPort 2.0 will also be able to operate 4K monitors with 144hz update or more without any problems and offer HDR support without compression.
