CRN Test Center and DisplayMate Technologies Announce Strategic Partnership To Standardize Display Testing and Support for Channel

PRNewswire
JERICHO, N.Y.
Apr 9, 2001

CRN, a CMP Media publication for builders of technology solutions, and DisplayMate Technologies have announced a strategic partnership to standardize display testing and support for the solution provider channel. For more than five years, CRN's Test Center has chosen DisplayMate Technologies software to help evaluate CRTs, LCDs, notebook displays, plasma displays, video projectors, video boards and more. Extending the partnership further, the CRN website ( CRN.com ) will host a special "CRN Test Center Demo Edition of DisplayMate for Windows" with free downloading. The demo software will include a subset of DisplayMate software regularly used by CRN Test Center, enabling solution providers to demonstrate the value of their solutions and expertise to clients.

"CRN Test Center believes that once solution providers try out the useful demo, they will recognize the value of the full version which can be used as a sales, set-up, maintenance and troubleshooting tool," said John Yacono, director of the CRN Test Center. "As an objective third party, CRN Test Center endorses DisplayMate's software and is pleased to add such a useful demo to our Benchmark Download Center on CRN.com where it will join printer-testing software from SpencerLab," he adds.

Channel professionals can put the full version of DisplayMate to many productive uses. For example, DisplayMate can be used as a sales and demo tool that clearly shows the quality differences between inexpensive and high-performance displays. Customers are more likely to buy a premium display when the solution provider can demonstrate improved image and picture quality, which is exactly the edge DisplayMate provides in an easy-to-use, visible way. DisplayMate takes the commodity label off displays by clearly demonstrating image and picture quality differences between models.

Other in-house uses of DisplayMate include testing inbound displays, adjusting outbound displays, field-service and troubleshooting. The software can also be resold to clients that want to keep their display technology properly set-up and tuned for optimum image and picture quality, which spans the range from ordinary end users up through graphics shops.

"I'm glad that we are strengthening our relationship with the CRN Test Center," said Raymond Soneira, president of DisplayMate Technologies. "We have been working with director John Yacono at CMP and the CRN Test Center for five years now and this partnership will help us both support the special needs of the solution provider community."

About CRN and the CRN Test Center

CRN is the nation's leading trade newsweekly that provides breaking industry news and analysis for solution providers, integrators and e-businesses driving the economy. It is the most trusted source of news for 117,500 channel professionals. A media leader in the high-tech industry, CRN provides the most comprehensive suite of online resources: CRN.com , the site where industry news breaks first; CRN Direct, a daily newspaper that brings personalized news to solution providers' desktops; and CRN News Radio, a daily news broadcast covering the solution provider channel and the industry.

The CRN Test Center is the technology-evaluation department of CRN, providing unbiased product, technology and channel-program analysis specifically targeted at solution providers. The CRN Test Center produces single-product reviews, technology news, technology demonstrations at tradeshows, and product roundups featuring channel-program evaluations.

About CMP Media LLC

CMP Media LLC ( http://www.cmpnet.com/ ) is the leading high-tech media company providing essential information and marketing services to the entire technology spectrum -- the builders, sellers and users of technology worldwide. Capitalizing on its editorial strength, CMP is uniquely positioned to offer marketers' comprehensive, integrated media solutions tailored to meet their individual needs. Its diverse products and services include newspapers, magazines, Internet products, research direct marketing services, education and training, trade shows and conferences, custom publishing, testing and consulting.

About DisplayMate Technologies

DisplayMate Technologies is a company devoted exclusively to video testing, evaluation and optimization. It develops state-of-the-art video diagnostic products for the consumer and professional markets. The company is widely recognized throughout the computer and video industries as the worldwide leader in video diagnostics. The diagnostics are used in the calibration, testing, evaluation and optimization of image and picture quality for all types of displays, such CRTs, analog and digital LCDs and plasma displays, video projectors, microdisplays, HDTVs, and more.

For more information about DisplayMate Technologies and the complete line of DisplayMate products please visit http://www.displaymate.com/ or call 1-800-932-6323.

  CONTACT:
  Nancy McHugh
  CRN
  949-223-3649
  nmchugh@cmp.com

SOURCE: CMP Media Inc.

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