[Gllug] Windows Petrol Pump and monitors

[Chris Bell]

On Sun 20 Apr, Adam Bower wrote:
> 

> > > 
> >    Please take care when providing answers or we may follow the trend
> > towards widescreen (manufacturers love new must-have trends, and sales of
> > ordinary 4:3 screens were not increasing at a sufficiently high rate)
> 
> Going widescreen on the desktop is fine, means you can get 2 a4 pages side by
> side. :)
> 
   I am still waiting for the light emitting polymer screens (a bit like
thin film plastic LEDs) to go into production. I do not know how good they
will be for speed and colour rendition, but they should be flexible enough
to roll up or conform to odd shapes, and cheap enough to use as wall or
ceiling covering. They were tested on the advertising panels of buses a few
years ago.
   Development was started in Cambridge University, then hived off to an
affiliated commercial development park, but they could not get commercial
backing in this country so shares were sold off mainly to America and Japan.
   One of the companies that now has a stake is Seiko-Epson, and I was told
that they hope to have production quantities available later this year. They
do not make any other monitors, so they have no reason to sit on the
development.


-- 
Chris Bell


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