About DisplayScale

Why the site exists

Nobody buys a diagonal. A 27 inch 16:9 panel is 59.8 cm of glass and about 61 cm of body; a 34 inch ultrawide, seven inches bigger on paper, is 79.6 cm wide and will not leave room for a laptop beside it on the same desk. The number on the box does not tell you that, and neither does a photograph of the screen on somebody else’s desk.

So the question this site answers is not “which screen is best” but “what fits here, and what will it feel like from where I sit”. Everything else follows from that. It is why the calculators ask for your surface before they ask for anything else, why a size that does not fit is ruled out with the shortfall in centimetres rather than quietly ranked last, and why sharpness is scored in pixels per degree of your field of view rather than pixels per inch.

Who runs it

DisplayScale is operated by Inyonitech Solutions (Pty) Ltd, a company registered in South Africa and based in Cape Town. It is a small independent operation, not a publisher network and not a retailer, and it has no commercial relationship with any screen manufacturer.

One mailbox reaches us, and it is read by a person: [email protected]. The contact page has the company’s details, the Information Officer and what is worth writing in about.

Where the numbers come from

Every ranking is four scores, weighted by what you told the calculator you do with the screen: whether the body fits the surface, the horizontal angle it fills from where you sit, three ergonomic checks on height, depth and distance, and sharpness as pixels per degree. Panel dimensions are worked out from each size’s diagonal and aspect ratio, and the bezel and stand allowances are typical values for the size class, not measurements of a particular model.

None of that is hidden. The method page writes out the four factors, the weighting table for each use, and the assumptions behind them, and the sources section says where the size data comes from. If a result looks wrong, that page is where you can check our working, and the mailbox above is where you can tell us it is.

What this site does not do

• No affiliate links, no sponsored placements and no paid rankings. There are no prices, no retailers and no buy buttons anywhere on the site, which is why a ranking here can tell you a screen does not fit without anything being at stake in saying so.
• No account, no sign-up and no email capture. The measurements you type are worked out in your own browser and are not sent to us.
• No product reviews. We do not rate panels for colour, contrast or refresh rate. Size, distance and geometry are the whole remit.
• No tracking of our own beyond a visit count. Cloudflare Web Analytics counts pages without cookies or cross-site identifiers, and Google’s advertising script loads on the home page and the TV and monitor size calculators while Google reviews the site; the privacy policy describes both in full.

How it is kept current

Alongside the calculators the site keeps a screen size chart of exact dimensions per size, guides that answer one sizing question each, and side by side comparisons. Every guide, comparison and size page shows the day it was published at the top and, if it has changed since, the day it was last revised, so you can see how old the page you are reading is rather than take our word for it.

Corrections are the main reason anything changes here. A reported size that does not match a manufacturer’s specification, a fit verdict that reads wrong for a real desk, a formula that does not survive a reader’s arithmetic: those get fixed, and the date on the page moves when they are.