DisplayMate for Windows Video Edition is the consumer version of our highly acclaimed video utility for setting up, calibrating, adjusting, tuning up, optimizing, evaluating, and testing any LCD, Plasma or CRT monitor, projector or HDTV to produce the highest image and picture quality possible. It's also great for calibrating your color printer to match your display. DisplayMate is easy to use, assumes no prior video knowledge, and is designed for both video novices and experts alike. The Video Edition is an Enhanced version that includes Everything in the Standard Edition Plus an additional special set of test patterns that are used for setting up CRT, LCD, Plasma, DLP and LCoS projectors, monitors, multimedia displays, TVs and HDTVs, where color calibration is especially important. See the list of special test patterns below.

The Video Edition supports digital DVI and HDMI in addition to analog VGA, Component Video, S-Video and Composite Video. Virtually all of the latest digital HDTVs, monitors, and projectors now connect automatically to any Windows 7, Vista or XP PC with DVI or HDMI outputs. Most DisplayMate test patterns are designed for visual evaluation and adjustments but there are also many test patterns designed for use with Instrumentation like Spectroradiometers, Color Analyzers, Photometers, Waveform Monitors, and Oscilloscopes.

Highlights

• DisplayMate works by automatically showing you a slide show of specialized test pattern images. Novice, Express, Standard, and Complete Programs allow you to configure the program according to your needs and interests.
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• If you are a Novice user DisplayMate has an optional Novice Mode with a special set of light and simplified instructions and patterns.

• Most DisplayMate test patterns are designed for visual evaluation and adjustments by eye, but there are also some optional test patterns for use with instruments like color analyzers, colorimeters, spectroradiometers, and waveform monitors if you have access to them.

• Special suites of test patterns for setting up, calibrating, adjusting, tuning up, testing and evaluating, CRT, LCD, Plasma and Flat Panel monitors, projectors and HDTVs. The Video Edition includes an enhanced set of test patterns. See below.

• Over 120 test patterns are generated for ANY Screen Resolution and Aspect Ratio. Most of the time you will need only a small number, but the large library of test patterns will help you deal with any display issue or problem that may arise.

• The Video Edition supports digital DVI and HDMI in addition to analog VGA, Component Video, S-Video and Composite Video. Connect to almost any monitor, projector or HDTV.

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• Each test pattern comes with a detailed "Description" that explains "What To Look For" and includes detailed step-by-step instructions on "What You Can Do" to improve the image and picture quality. You simply view them one at a time and follow the easy step-by-step on-screen instructions, expert advice and guidance that accompanies each test pattern, as shown on the right.

• The Video Edition supports All Resolutions up through 2600 x 2600 (USB version) because it uses advanced scale free mathematical equations. Note that there are no predefined resolutions, aspect ratios, or screens geometries so DisplayMate will run at the true native resolution of your monitor, projector or HDTV. Other products use a single "one size fits all" predefined screen resolution.

• The Video Edition comes with comprehensive electronic documentation including custom Test Information Screens for each test pattern, an extensive and detailed Windows Help for DisplayMate, and a ReadMe Documentation and Information File.

  To use DisplayMate to calibrate your HDTV you'll need to connect it to a Windows PC. Fortunately, that's now pretty easy. Once you do this your HDTV will show your Windows Desktop and can then function as a giant PC Monitor so you can watch all of your applications on the HDTV.

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  To calibrate your printer you first calibrate your monitor with DisplayMate. Then you print the same DisplayMate test patterns and match them to the monitor by using the print driver controls.

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  New!   Now available as an Enhanced Edition on a Portable DisplayMate USB Drive

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  Price on CD is $99  
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  Price for immediate electronic delivery via Automatic Web Download is $89  

Special Test Patterns included in the Video Edition

The Video Edition includes Everything in the Standard Edition of DisplayMate for Windows Plus it provides an additional special set of test patterns that are used for setting up CRT, LCD, Plasma, DLP and LCoS projectors, TVs and HDTVs, Plasma and multimedia displays, where color calibration is especially important. It includes the following additional Test Patterns and their associated Test Information Screens:

• Two variable intensity Window Patterns each with 16 settable levels for adjusting color and gray scale tracking and balance.

• Set Up Crosshatch with center and 5% overscan markings for video projectors, HDTVs and televisions.

• Anamorphic geometric test pattern for adjusting Letterbox 16:9 framing and Aspect Ratio on widescreen displays and projectors.

• SMPTE Color Bars instead of EIA style Color Bars, which include reverse blue bars for adjusting color saturation and tint, -I and Q blocks for checking chroma phase and amplitude, and PLUGE stripes for checking the Black-Level.

• PLUGE Pattern with a Log Gray-Scale and a PLUGE Pattern with a White Bar for setting Black and White levels and checking for Black level shift.

• Needle Pulse Pattern for checking and adjusting sharpness, blooming and screen regulation distortion.

• 5 American National Standards Institute ANSI - IT7.215 test patterns for measuring the Lumen light output and Contrast Ratio of displays and projectors.

• A built-in Expert System and internal data base provide detailed instructions and expert advice, custom generated for your system. Each test screen comes with a detailed description that explains What To Look For and includes detailed step-by-step instructions on What You Can Do to improve the appearance of the image.

• The built-in electronc Manual includes chapters on: the functions of all monitor and video board controls; Windows Video System Parameters; Color Models and Color Matching; Gray-Scale Linearity; Gamma Corrections, and Transfer Functions; and how to extend the life of your display.

• DisplayMate for Windows Video Edition on USB supports all resolutions up through 2600 x 2600 (non-USB versions 2048 x 2048), all screen shapes and aspect ratios from 0.75 to 2.5 (non-USB versions to 2.0), including landscape, portrait, and HDTV 16:9, and all color modes from monochrome up through full 24-bit or 32-bit color. The USB version also allows the Screen Aspect Ratio to be specified manually for anamorphic displays and projectors.

• DisplayMate runs on any video board and monitor supported by Windows. Automatically configures itself to run under all 32-bit versions of Windows 7, Vista, XP, Windows'95/98/Me, and Windows NT/2000.

• DisplayMate runs on all 32-bit versions of Windows 7, Vista and XP.
  DisplayMate runs in XP Mode on 64-bit Windows 7 systems.

• DisplayMate runs on Apple, Linux, and Unix workstations using these Emulators