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DisplayMate
- hjhart 4mo agoWebsite appears to be down.
- TheJuli 4mo agoHN hug of death
- tomkarho 4mo agoBetter call Web Dude
- conkeisterdoor 4mo agoDefinitely DONT call the Sales Guy!
- shortstuffsushi 4mo agoI'm not familiar with DisplayMate, and the site appears to be hugged. Unsure what this is doing on the front page, but for any similarly lost folks: > DisplayMate is the Worldwide Leader in Video Diagnostics and the World's most advanced Display Calibration and Optimization Software.
- cpach 4mo agoWhy is this on the front page? :)
- cyberjunkie 4mo agoA popular tool preceding the days of YouTube reviews, used for testing and reviewing displays.
- InsideOutSanta 4mo agoAm I confused, or are these a bunch of JPGs on a CD? There's no hardware, right?
- lelanthran 4mo agoTLDR: Not JPGs, BMPs more likely. I recall when the first LCD TVs came out and I wanted to get a cheap 1080 one. The problem was that almost every TV said 1080 even if it was just 720 upscaled. I put a uniform image in BMP on a memory stick - every column being R, then G, then B repeated. As the image was exactly 1080, viewing it in full-screen on a 1080 screen gave a sort of uniform grey color. On an upscaled monitor you could see very visible banding. This would not have worked had the image been JPG.
- rahimnathwani 4mo agoThis would also help to detect overscan. I remember when I was shopping for my first 1080p TV, many (most?) had overscan and no way to turn it off.
- jonathanlydall 4mo agoOverscan is where it cuts off the edges of the image right? I’m sure an LLM could offer an explanation, but I genuinely have never understood why overscan is even a thing on HDMI ports. Most times I plug my AppleTV or laptop into a TV using HDMI by default it’s cutting off the edge of the image. When is it ever a good thing to cut off the edges of the incoming digital image and why does this seem to be the default behaviour on most TVs? Edit: I asked an LLM and it says some content includes junk on the edge of images because it was never meant to be visible, so TVs enable it by default to cut down complaints/support requests. Apparently, even though HDMI supports a way to signal to TVs to disable overscan, many TVs ignore it. I’m in my 40’s and have yet to personally encounter content where overscan should be used. Maybe there were particularly crappy and prevalent analogue to digital converters in the early days of HDMI, but TV manufactures just never stopped doing it even though it’s almost never an issue any more. So we probably have a situation now where probably everyone has either manually changed their TV from its default or more likely are seeing an over scanned and thus non-pixel aligned image.
- RugnirViking 4mo agobeautiful web design :) We aren't usually supposed to comment on it but im pretty sure thats exactly the reason this has been submitted.
- elcritch 4mo agoIt’s like a slice of the earlier web. Realized I haven’t seen a c|net logo around for a long time.
- minton 4mo agoNostalgic maybe, but not sure it qualifies as beautiful.
- RugnirViking 4mo agothere was a time when this, exactly this, was the future. It's old hat now, and soon too will modern web design seem clunky and outdated.
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- mettamage 4mo agoFor if it is still hugged to death https://web.archive.org/web/20260622172525/https://www.displaymate.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20260622172525/https://www.displ...
- jakedata 4mo agoThat site is old enough to be Slashdotted.
- longnguyen 4mo ago429 Too Many Request. Double hugged to death.
- AWTom 4mo agoI’ve always used lagom.nl/lcd-test/
- jonathanlydall 4mo agoHaven’t needed it in years, but when it was still common that VGA was the only input into an LCD, this website had the images for easy calibration to perfect pixel alignment.
- gorjusborg 4mo ago"The Standard of Excellence for Image and Picture Quality" Yeah you are, you go girl.
- gabrielso 4mo agoOh my, inspecting the page gave me a warm, cozy, nostalgic feeling and made me feel grateful for all the meals <table>s just like that put on my family's table throughout the late 90s and early 2000s.
- alberth 4mo agoWhile not used on the site, don’t forget the practice of having an invisible 1x1 pixel to create table borders.
- GL26 4mo agoI find that this kind of web design is not conforting, it brings back memories of slow loading pages, scammy websites that download things without warning you.
- benj111 4mo agoAt least back then pages were slow because the internet was slow. Now we have pages being slow because? Why?
- shwetarkadam257 4mo agoBeautiful archaic design. Please consider adding shelves labeled by genre; that could look great and make it easier for users to browse.