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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.
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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.
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