Digital View Blog http://www.digitalview.com/blog Company and product news and views... Wed, 02 May 2012 09:30:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Viewrinal, an idea that keeps going… http://www.digitalview.com/blog/2012/05/viewrinal-an-idea-that-keeps-going/ http://www.digitalview.com/blog/2012/05/viewrinal-an-idea-that-keeps-going/#comments Wed, 02 May 2012 09:25:07 +0000 digitalview http://www.digitalview.com/blog/?p=543 Back in 2001 Captive View (a Digital View joint venture) launched a washroom media product called the Viewrinal, an LCD display built into a urinal. The Viewrinal was successfully installed in a number of venues, most notably a few nightclubs in London, UK, and also caught some good media attention. Captive View was sold during 2003 and since then the concept has resurfaced many times with other companies – most recently with Sega and their Toylets, see http://toylets.sega.jp/

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Digital View LCD Controller Summary

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Engine of Engines, a reactive multimedia installation by Daniel Howe & Bill Seaman ©2011

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The Lake House, Knebworth Park, Herts, UK.

Digital View UK is pleased to announce it is back in Knebworth Park – following the relocation of its European digital signage operations to Munich in Q4 of 2011 the display electronics operations decided to return to the countryside of Hertfordshire not far from where it started, albeit to significantly larger premises.

The Lake House is in an excellent setting on the edge of the woods looking down on the picturesque lake with its ducks and a boat house. The address is Digital View Ltd., The Lake House, Knebworth Park, Herts, SG3 6PY, UK.

The telephone number remains the same at +44-207-631 2150.

]]> http://www.digitalview.com/blog/2012/02/new-digital-view-uk-office/feed/ 0 ALR-1920 LCD Controller Significant Upgrade http://www.digitalview.com/blog/2012/02/alr-1920-lcd-controller-significant-upgrade/ http://www.digitalview.com/blog/2012/02/alr-1920-lcd-controller-significant-upgrade/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:34:42 +0000 digitalview http://www.digitalview.com/blog/?p=481 The ALR-1920 LCD controller has been significantly upgraded as announced today, the new model reference is part number 417270011-3. Some of the new features are:

  • Additional RS-232 command support
  • DDC/CI command support for brightness, contrast, RGB color, input sources and more
  • Additional video mode support
  • Additional panel timing support
  • Improved video mode recognition
  • Improved HDMI sync detection
  • Support for custom panel timing programming by users
  • Various bug fixes
The ALR-1920 details can be found on the Digital View website at www.digitalview.com/products/alr-1920-lcd-controller, it may take a few days for the above details to be included in documentation available for download.
]]> http://www.digitalview.com/blog/2012/02/alr-1920-lcd-controller-significant-upgrade/feed/ 0 LCD Controller Support Pages Undergoing A Revamp http://www.digitalview.com/blog/2012/02/lcd-controller-support-pages-undergoing-a-revamp/ http://www.digitalview.com/blog/2012/02/lcd-controller-support-pages-undergoing-a-revamp/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:19:12 +0000 James Henry http://www.digitalview.com/blog/?p=479 Over the last few days the LCD controller support pages on the Digital View website have been updated with a posting of all relevant Application Notes for each of the controller models listed. This, however, is not the end of it as the Application Notes themselves as well as other files are all being reviewed and progressively updated as appropriate.

The controller support pages are at www.digitalview.com/support/lcd-controllers-support, if you have any comments of suggestions please let us know.

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Today more than 30 LCD panels were added to the database and it is expected that another 50 or more will be added in the coming days. The CSG itself is accesible at www.digitalview.com/csg and the panel data is currently available at www.panelx.com.

]]> http://www.digitalview.com/blog/2012/02/csg-updates/feed/ 0 Car Color Selector – customer engagement demo http://www.digitalview.com/blog/2011/06/car-color-selector-customer-engagement-demo/ http://www.digitalview.com/blog/2011/06/car-color-selector-customer-engagement-demo/#comments Thu, 30 Jun 2011 04:11:23 +0000 James Henry http://www.digitalview.com/blog/?p=456 As I write this our UK office are exhibiting at the In-Store show in London showing a comprehensive selection of display solutions for retail marketing together with numerous interactive options. One of our exhibits in particular caught my attention because of how cost effectively we are able to produce it.

The demonstration as pictured here shows a video of a car rotating so the user can see a 360 degree view. The nearby touch pad with various colors is, as you might expect, a color selector for the car. While this would normally require a costly PC and touch screen we have used a 15″ VideoFlyer and our own touch solution mounted in a separate frame. The user touches the color of choice and immediately the video changes to show a view of the car in the color selected.

Very easy to put together, cost effective and reliable.

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