VESA releases ClearMR 21000 and True Black 1000 specifications for the sharpest, brightest OLED monitors

The CES is not only the moment chosen by the consumer electronics industry to announce its most powerful launches of the next twelve months. It is also a favorable place to reveal all kinds of standards. Thus, in addition to the new HDMI 2.2 connector (which has already been confirmed for the Las Vegas fair by its respective consortium), VESA has announced new specifications designed for a new generation of OLED monitors.

Created as an expansion of the standard initially announced in 2022, the new ClearMR 15000, 18000 and 21000 specifications represent a significant improvement on the current image clarity scales, which numerically express the motion blur of approved screens based on the ratio of blurry pixels to sharp pixels. The higher the number, the greater the sharpness.

This parameter directly complements both the refresh rate in hertz and the traditional response time, and will serve to more reliably represent the image quality of the fastest monitors on the market, which in the case of OLED technology already touch 480 Hz.

The current values ​​table looks like this:

On the other hand, VESA has also announced the DisplayHDR True Black 1000 specification, which represents a new level in the approval of the brightness of OLED monitors. This revision goes beyond the current True Black 600 limit and raises the maximum brightness to a minimum of 1,000 cd/m2, with the ability to maintain 500 cd/m2 across the entire screen.

The approval criteria of the DisplayHDR standard can be consulted here.

According to VESA in its press release, Gigabyte and LG have recently launched monitors that may be approved as ClearMR 21000 (this is the case of the LG UltraGear 27GX790A, which we used to lead the news), but there is still no model that meets the DisplayHDR True Black 1000 specification. There is also no reference to future releases, although Samsung points out that it is already working on compatible OLED screens.