Video Electronics Standards Association

{{Short description|Technical standards organization for computer display standards}}

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VESA ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|v|iː|s|ə}}), formally known as Video Electronics Standards Association, is an American technical standards organization for computer display standards. The organization was incorporated in California in July 1989{{cite web|title=Business Entity Detail: Video Electronics Standards Association|url=http://kepler.sos.ca.gov|author=California Secretary of State|author-link=Secretary of State of California|id=Entity Number C1645094|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150315010639/http://kepler.sos.ca.gov/|archive-date=March 15, 2015|access-date=May 27, 2016|df=mdy-all}}To retrieve the information, search for Entity Number C1645094. and has its office in San Jose.{{cite web|title=Contact VESA|url=http://www.vesa.org/about-vesa/contact-vesa|author=Video Electronics Standards Association|website=VESA.org|access-date=May 27, 2016}} It claims a membership of over 300 companies.{{Cite web |last=Video Electronics Standards Association |title=Mission/Vision |url=http://www.vesa.org/about-vesa/missionvision |access-date=2020-07-16 |website=VESA.org}}

In November 1988, NEC Home Electronics announced its creation of the association to develop and promote a Super VGA computer display standard as a successor to IBM's proprietary Video Graphics Array (VGA) display standard. Super VGA enabled graphics display resolutions up to 800×600 pixels, compared to VGA's maximum resolution of 640×480 pixels—a 56% increase.{{cite news|title=NEC Forms Video Standards Group|first=Mark |last=Brownstein|work=InfoWorld |issn=0199-6649|date=November 14, 1988|volume=10 |issue=46 |page=3|access-date=May 27, 2016|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wTsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT2}}

The organization has since issued several additional standards related to computer video displays. Widely used VESA standards include DisplayHDR, DisplayPort, and Flat Display Mounting Interface.