Re: [sdiy] PLED Displays

[Roman]

I've held one in my hands. It's really awesome.
Although the one I saw was amber. From first look
I could see it's much better than LCD. It was shining
like old amber PC monitors, but with sharp LCD-like pixels.
There's no angle-of-view artifacts and it simply looks cool.
The drawback is, they cost so much, that the owner of the
display was ashamed to admit how much he spent.
BTW, it was 320x240. I've been told they are used in
Space Shuttle.

Roman

---- Wiadomość Oryginalna ----
Od: Dave Peverley <pev at sketchymonkey.com>
Do: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
Data: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 14:58:28 +0100
Temat: [sdiy] PLED Displays

>I was just bouncing through the CPC online catalogue this lunchtime looking
>for cheap LCD displays for prototyping with, and came across these. Anyone
>seen them yet?
>
>If you haven't, the blurb's :
>
>"A range of polymer LED (PLED) displays utilising the new display technology.
>These displays offer high contrast green characters against a black
>background, the displays may be viewed from almost 180° unlike conventional
>LCDs and feature very low power consumption. The pixels illuminate without
>the need for backlighting, this makes them suitable for portable equipment
>whereby power must be conserved."
>
>They do 16x2 chars (HD44780), and two physical sizes of 64x16 dot matrix.
>They seem reasonably priced too...
>
>Could be interesting for someone, although my needs are for larger
>displays...
>
>~Pev
>
>