VESA is the self-proclaimed “worldwide leader in the development of video display standards”. Unfortunately, at least in recent years, the organization has consistently failed to live up to its claim. In fact, during the past five years, VESA’s press releases have been quite remarkable in their ability to identify what is NOT going to happen – sort of a pre-obituary list. Time after time, VESA has announced support for a new specification – with the sad result that the market has been confused or frustrated to the point that very little has actually been accomplished. VESA’s new support for DisplayPort is almost certain to become another of the increasingly embarrassing list of failed efforts.