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HDTV Almanac - DisplayMate Now Tweets!
By Alfred Poor
HDTV Professor
Posted on January 28, 2010
Category: General Interest



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Raymond Soneira is the creator of DisplayMate, which is an excellent program that can quickly tell you volumes about your display, whether it’s an HDTV, a computer monitor, a notebook, or even a cell phone. I used DisplayMate extensively for many years when I developed and used the display tests for PC Magazine, and they still use the program today in the product testing. While I don’t entirely agree with every conclusion Ray makes, I hold his work in the highest regard and trust his test results above all others.

Ray makes a wealth of information available for free on his Web site. Check out his mobile LCD display shoot out and his HDTV shoot out results in particular. And now he’s making his expertise and analysis even more readily available. He has started a DisplayMate Twitter account that you can follow through Twitter, or by going to the page on the Twitter Web site, or through an RSS feed. He explains why glossy screens for notebooks and mobile devices are a bad idea, and what’s wrong with local dimming on LED backlight LCD HDTVs. He explains why “dynamic contrast” is a meaningless specification. Many of his tweets include links to his Web site where you can find additional information on the subject that doesn’t fit within Twitter’s 140 character limit.

If you’re interested in displays and what really matters for image quality, you’ll want to follow the DisplayMate tweets.

Posted by Alfred Poor, January 28, 2010 5:00 AM

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See Forum Topic: HDTV Almanac - DisplayMate Now Tweets! (1 replies)
Jan 28, 8:38am
Thanks for the article. I did skim one of the articles on the web site about motion blur. Good info, but somewhat less than useful. The takeaway from the article was to purchase mid-to-high level quality displays. But what does that mean? If I were i
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Alfred Poor is a well-known display industry expert, who writes the daily HDTV Almanac. He wrote for PC Magazine for more than 20 years, and now is focusing on the home entertainment and home networking markets.