I do not see your point. First of all, USB really WAS the future of connectivity back then — and the sooner we’d get rid of the parallel port, the better. This had nothing to do with EU regulations or manufacturer interests. It was, and is, a simple fact. It’s the same with Apple’s current Lightning port/USB-C port situation. The former is outdated, period. It has to go. It had to go five years ago, actually.

What does this have to do with TV display development, though? TVs can’t get better short-term or mid-term if they are handicapped by energy consumption limitations. It’s just the state of things currently. Maybe some other display tech will emerge, at some unknown point in the future, that is both energy efficient and capable of delivering e.g. over 2000 nits in a 10% window. We’d all like to see something like that.

But that does not exist even on a theoretical level right now. All future display tech currently known e.g. MicroLED is based on the assumption that manufacturers can pump as much energy into their screens as they need to. So what the EU is actually doing is freezing TV display development until some imaginary new tech arrives… and that’s OK? Seriously? Not even a timeframe? Anything?

If there was such a display tech, and manufacturers were forced to embrace it, it would still not be totally OK, but it would be a different discussion altogether. This whole situation just reeks of incompetence on the part of the EU, not a forward-thinking approach.

I am sorry to say that your arguments are so awfully generic that they do not apply not just to this situation, but to any situation. “Constraints help push innovation”? Sometimes they do, forcing out-of-the-box thinking, sometimes they don’t because, well, you can’t beat the laws of physics by wishful thinking alone. Plus, we are not looking for “products that win or not” here. This is a whole product category threatened, regardless of manufacturer choices and market position.

Long story short: the EU’s position is indefensible right now. If you mean to offer a counter-argument to that, please focus on specific points and specific proposals.