DisplayMate Technologies is a company devoted exclusively to video testing, evaluation and optimization. The company develops state-of-the-art video diagnostic products for the consumer and professional markets.

DisplayMate Technologies is widely recognized throughout the computer and video industries as the worldwide leader in video diagnostics, which are used in the calibration, testing, evaluation and optimization of image and picture quality for all types of displays, such as CRTs, analog and digital LCDs and plasma displays, video projectors, microdisplays, HDTVs and more.

The Standard for Commercial and Research Applications:
DisplayMate is an industry standard used for judging displays at major international industry events such as the world renown INFOCOMM Projection Shoot-Out and the SID Display Technology Showcase. INFOCOMM is the world's largest commercial exhibition of large screen display technology and SID, the Society for Information Display, produces the world's leading conference and exhibition for research in display technology. DisplayMate is proud to be recognized as a standard by both the commercial and research areas of the display industry.

The Standard in Print and on the Web:
DisplayMate is the editorial standard used by over 200 computer and video publications in 50 countries for their editorial testing and lab reviews of video hardware. If you've ever read a review about a monitor or projector, the editors were most likely using DisplayMate.

The Most Sensitive and Revealing Test Patterns:
DisplayMate's success is the result of developing the most challenging and sensitive test patterns in existence for displays. Unlike traditional test pattern generators that produce a small number of bland, generic, multi-purpose test patterns that were developed primarily in the 1950s, DisplayMate pioneered the development of proprietary, special purpose analytical test patterns that individually examine each display parameter at the highest possible sensitivity. Each test pattern is carefully fine-tuned for the maximum possible effect and a set of such patterns is viewed in a programmed sequence. The result is that DisplayMate produces the most powerful and revealing test patterns. They show effects and differences between displays that go unnoticed using all other methods. That's the reason why DisplayMate has become the standard for evaluating image and picture quality and why journalists depend on it for producing the best reviews and comparisons.

A Key Role in Improving Display Quality Since 1991:
As a result of DisplayMate's widespread use for display testing and evaluation, a product's success often depends on how well it performs with DisplayMate's test patterns. In response, manufacturers have learned to improve the design of their displays so as to perform better with DisplayMate. And in turn, DisplayMate's test patterns have continually increased in difficulty, raising the bar with each new DisplayMate Edition. The result is that DisplayMate has played a key role in improving display quality for the consumer since the first product was launched in 1991.

Manufacturer's Friend or Foe?
At first, most manufacturers responded quite negatively to the introduction of DisplayMate. It made every display look less than perfect and provided consumers with an inexpensive and powerful tool to evaluate display products. But DisplayMate also made it possible to clearly see the differences between displays, so it became much easier to differentiate the good and bad displays. The result has been that manufacturers of high quality products have actually promoted the use of DisplayMate as a sales and marketing tool, while the manufacturers of poorly performing displays have attempted to suppress its use. As a result there are many custom versions of DisplayMate that are co-branded and distributed by leading manufacturers in order to promote the excellence in the image and picture quality of their products.

Educational Products for Novices and Experts:
The company has a principal interest in computer education. DisplayMate includes product lines for computer and display novices in addition to cutting-edge state-of-the art products for advanced professional users. The entry-level products are actually expert systems that are designed to hand-hold novice end users with step-by-step instructions and advice and guidance. The manuals for all DisplayMate products have been widely recognized as the finest documentation available. Even the New York Times called it the "best" computer manual ever. Click here for highlights.

Company History:
The company was founded in 1984 as Cactus Computers Inc, a computer education and training company for major banks, brokerage houses and Fortune 100 companies in the New York metropolitan area.

In 1989 the company established a new division, called SONERA Technologies, in order to begin the development of the world's first computer display utility. The product launched in May 1991 and received immediate widespread recognition and awards, including a Best of Show award at COMDEX, the computer industry's leading trade show and exposition. The company shared the awards stage with Microsoft, which also won a Best of Show award for Windows. For awards and recognition highlights see Reviews + Awards.

In 1999, the company moved to southern New Hampshire, near Boston, and re-incorporated as DisplayMate Technologies Corp, assuming the name of its now famous products. The education and training division is now called DisplayMate Solutions.

Company Management:
Dr. Raymond Soneira - Founder, President and CEO of DisplayMate Technologies Corporation
The developer of DisplayMate is an internationally recognized research scientist with a distinguished career that spans physics, computer science, and television system design. Dr. Soneira obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from Princeton University, spent 5 years as a Long-Term Member of the world famous Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, another 5 years as a Principal Investigator in the Computer Systems Research Laboratory at AT&T Bell Laboratories, and has designed, tested, and installed color television broadcast equipment for the CBS Television Network Engineering and Development Department. He has authored over 35 research articles in scientific journals in physics and computer science, including Scientific American.

Dr. Soneira's background covers a wide spectrum of internationally recognized leading edge research in electronics, optics, applied mathematics, theoretical and experimental physics. For example: he has designed color television broadcast equipment for the CBS Television Network, built a computer mathematical model of a television system for optimizing the camera to receiver performance and accuracy of the optics and electronics for CBS, a leader of a team at Bell Labs that built mobile robots, designed a 360 degree imaging laser range finder, did the mathematical foundation of the fine guidance system for the Space Telescope, built the accepted standard model of the Milky Way Galaxy (which is named after him), built theoretical cosmological and stellar models for the Space Telescope, has done fundamental work on the analysis of clustering and super-clustering of galaxies, plus work in Relativity and nuclear physics.

Dr. Soneira works closely with the 200+ publications that use DisplayMate for editorial testing and lab reviews of video hardware. He is a Contributing Editor to Widescreen Review Magazine, and has written numerous articles for Consumer, Professional, display marketing, and Research publications, such as Widescreen Review Magazine, PC Magazine, Ziff-Davis' ExtremeTech, CNET, Presentations Magazine, Maximum PC Magazine, the Society for Information Display's Information Display Magazine, and a large number of display marketing and Professional Audio-Video publications. His articles have been translated into several languages and have appeared in over 30 publications worldwide.