VESA focused its CES presence on practical demonstrations of previously announced technologies, rather than introducing new consumer facing standards. The centerpiece on the connectivity side was a fresh showing of DP80LL cables, which were first announced one year ago. VESA had originally stated that DP80LL cables would be limited to 3 meters, but this year’s demo was of 3.5 meter long cables, underlining progress in extending high bandwidth DisplayPort connectivity over longer active cable runs.
Alongside the DP80LL hardware, VESA highlighted higher throughput DisplayPort tunnelling capabilities. The organization demoed 120 Gbps asymmetric DP tunnelling over USB4v2 using a Thunderbolt 5 card and a pair of 5K displays from LG, illustrating how upcoming host and cable ecosystems can move more display data through a single connection. VESA also showed a three stream MST daisy chaining demo, where three Gigabyte 4K monitors were connected via a single DisplayPort output on a graphics card, underscoring the flexibility of multi stream transport for multi monitor setups driven from one port.
On the display side, VESA showcased new products carrying its latest visual quality certifications. The group demonstrated the LG Gram Pro 16 laptop with a 16 inch 3200 x 2000 pixel OLED display that is certified for the VESA DisplayHDR TrueBlack 1000 standard, which requires a minimum peak luminance of 1000 nits with a maximum black level luminance of 0.0005 nits, unlike DisplayHDR 1000 which has a maximum black level of 0.02 nits. The final demo was of the LG Ultragear GX7 gaming monitor with ClearMR 21000 which is its top tier motion blur reduction certification, signaling how manufacturers are targeting VESA’s highest performance tiers for both contrast and motion clarity.
