MoniTOR 1.0.3 review

MoniTOR lets you test and adjust the most relevant parameters of CRT and TFT monitors: dead pixel, RGB colors, tonal range, gamma response, geometry, pixel size, horizontal and vertical phase, moire, image persistence, sharpness, contrast, etc.

License: Shareware OS: Mac OS X File size: 3110K Developer: Mosquito SW Buy Now Price: $20.00 Updated: 05 Jul 2006

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MoniTOR lets you test and adjust the most relevant parameters of CRT and TFT monitors: dead pixel, RGB colors, tonal range, gamma response, geometry, pixel size, horizontal and vertical phase, moire, image persistence, sharpness, contrast, etc.
MoniTOR's multitude of tests and features will surelly amaze you.

Limitations:
Colour Tab. The background is filled always in red colour.
Gradient Tab. The program only uses the red gradient. The Interval feature checkbox is disabled. You can’t evaluate the Color spectrum feature.
Geometry Tab. You can’t modify the pen size. It is only possible to adjust the grid divisions to a maximum value of 2. The program doesn’t allow to disable the vertical or horizontal lines of the grid (a valuable help to adjust the convergence of the display). You can’t access to the new convergence and contrast patterns.
You can’t use the diagonal pattern to adjust some aspects of the display as for example the horizontal phase or the vertical detail. The Alternate button is disabled.
Text Tab. You can’t choose the font used to draw the example text. The maximum text size (base size slider) is 16 points. The Alternate button is disabled. You can’t modify the sample text used by default.
Images Tab. Only it’s possible to select the first two images from the popup menu. It’s impossible to establish the number of iterations.
Settings. You can’t see or switch between all supported resolutions for the display or graphic card from the Supported Resolutions popup menu.

What's New:
Gradients Tab. Now you can test the color spectrum in the display (a more accurate tonal range pattern). MoniTOR lets you adjust the saturation value of this new gradient, great to evaluate the diverse white point values (Colour temperature) and the maximum color saturation of your display.
Geometry Tab. We added a new popup menu with Convergence and Contrast options. The original Geometry option is much faster now in the drawing of the grid subdivisions and the aperture of the diagonal lines.
Text Tab. Now you can modify the sample text used for this test. Now MoniTOR also shows the font size used for each line of text (in points).