tasty. the lcd controller, if it works, opens a world of possibilites.
unfortunately the lcd has a couple problems:
1) 250:1 contrast ratio
2) 262k colors.
3) 15 inches. an inch too big for OHP and most fresnels.
wth is with these 262k colors? some weird artifact of using different numbers of different colorred lcd's? its like 16 bit color with four colors.
are these things as widescreen as the samsungs? the samsungs have 16:10 aspect ratio, you almost have to focus the light, use an anamorphic prism setup, then put the light through the panel with that.
Myren
unfortunately the lcd has a couple problems:
1) 250:1 contrast ratio
2) 262k colors.
3) 15 inches. an inch too big for OHP and most fresnels.
wth is with these 262k colors? some weird artifact of using different numbers of different colorred lcd's? its like 16 bit color with four colors.
are these things as widescreen as the samsungs? the samsungs have 16:10 aspect ratio, you almost have to focus the light, use an anamorphic prism setup, then put the light through the panel with that.
Myren
I just discovered some very interesting and very good news.
There is an LVDS transmitter standard made by Jumptec called JILI (Jumptec Intelligent LVDS Interface).
As I've stated before, and many have already known, LCDs controllers require a bios that stores information about the LCD it's controlling. The information such as panel size, resolution, and more technical and precise settings as well. These registers are unique to every LCD.
Upon reading about the JILI system, I discovered two very good and important things about newer LCDs:
1) There are only a handful of different types of LVDS recievers found on laptop and other LCDs. There are LVDS transmitters that are universal and will work provided that the number of channels and the pixels per channel information is provided.
2) LCD panels themselves (the LCD, not the controller) actually have a chip that stores all of the LCD's register information.
Now, because of this, if you have buy an LCD controller that has a JILI transmitter, you can:
1) Communicate with every major LVDS reciever (National, TI, etc.) on just about any LCD.
2) Automatically retrive that bios information from the LCD. You do not need a custom made bios from the factory in Tawain anymore. Plug n Play. The JILI interface retrieves the registers from the LCD and records it in the controller's bios for you.
Check out this page to read what I just told you plus more:
http://www.dpie.com/etx/etxjili.html
This is excellent. Unfortunately, I don't know if and which controllers other than the Dr. Berghaus ones feature JILI.
There is an LVDS transmitter standard made by Jumptec called JILI (Jumptec Intelligent LVDS Interface).
As I've stated before, and many have already known, LCDs controllers require a bios that stores information about the LCD it's controlling. The information such as panel size, resolution, and more technical and precise settings as well. These registers are unique to every LCD.
Upon reading about the JILI system, I discovered two very good and important things about newer LCDs:
1) There are only a handful of different types of LVDS recievers found on laptop and other LCDs. There are LVDS transmitters that are universal and will work provided that the number of channels and the pixels per channel information is provided.
2) LCD panels themselves (the LCD, not the controller) actually have a chip that stores all of the LCD's register information.
Now, because of this, if you have buy an LCD controller that has a JILI transmitter, you can:
1) Communicate with every major LVDS reciever (National, TI, etc.) on just about any LCD.
2) Automatically retrive that bios information from the LCD. You do not need a custom made bios from the factory in Tawain anymore. Plug n Play. The JILI interface retrieves the registers from the LCD and records it in the controller's bios for you.
Check out this page to read what I just told you plus more:
http://www.dpie.com/etx/etxjili.html
This is excellent. Unfortunately, I don't know if and which controllers other than the Dr. Berghaus ones feature JILI.
And in order to flash other controller card's bios chip, those chips would have to be flashable and not ROM right? Although probably any of these multi-panel controllers that we've been looking at are flashable.
They are all flashroms I'm sure. But appearantly, this JILI system configures and flashes it's rom on it's own, by retrieving the data from the actual LCD. A smart controller. True plug n play, just like it were a laptop mobo.
This is definately how the Dell 8200, for example, can drive a multitude of different LCDs, such as the Hitatchi SXGA+ and the Sharp Ultrasharp UXGA. The motherboard's bios retrieves the information from the LCD and configures itself accordingly. This Dr. Berghaus controller seems to do the same thing.
This is definately how the Dell 8200, for example, can drive a multitude of different LCDs, such as the Hitatchi SXGA+ and the Sharp Ultrasharp UXGA. The motherboard's bios retrieves the information from the LCD and configures itself accordingly. This Dr. Berghaus controller seems to do the same thing.
Those Berghaus controllers sound really neat. I haven't been following the thread from its inception though, and am a little lost as to the status of availability? Are you researching that, Lifter? If so, what's the progress/pricing on these controllers? I'm really interested in these possibilities.
Keep imagining!
--Clint
Keep imagining!
--Clint
the webpage doesn't seem to indicate how many panel mfgs
have adopted JILI's proposed standard to have the panel specs in eeprom/flash on the panel.
have adopted JILI's proposed standard to have the panel specs in eeprom/flash on the panel.
I would be willing to bet that just about every modern panel has an eprom on it. Like I said, I'm sure this is how laptops can use multiple panels, like the Inspiron.
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