VESA

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The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) is an international body, founded in the late 1980s by NEC Home Electronics and eight other video display adapter manufacturers. The initial goal was to produce a standard for 800x600 SVGA resolution video displays. Since then VESA has issued a number of standards, mostly relating to the function of video peripherals in IBM PC compatible computers.

Among VESA's standards:

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VESA have charged high price for published standards, which have prevented the propagation of the supposed open standards.[1] VESA Software Standards Committee was closed down as a result of such practice. Althogh nowadays VESA have hosted free standards, the collection rarely (if ever) include newly developed standards. Even for obsolete standards, the collection is incomplete. The secretive practices persist even when competing standard committees are offering their specifications free of charge. As of 2006, a document (even those offered freely by VESA) can cost hundreds of dollars, and the only way to get some of the older standards (assuming they are still on sale) is through those already have the printed versions.

VESA had been criticized for holding miserable track record when it comes to digital interface standards.[2]

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