chrisla;339801 Wrote: > In talking to a hardware engineer at the BBQ yesterday, he mentioned > that the current crop of products with VFDs will likely be the last > they sell. New stuff will be LCD based. I expressed that was too bad, > since the VFDs are quite functional and easy to read from across the > room even if they are not all fancy and modern like. > > That would seem to make such a VFD product pretty unlikely. > > -Chris
Ugh. I suppose this was bound to happen, general-purpose dot matrix VFD displays just aren't that popular anymore in consumer devices (as opposed to customized displays for AV receivers, DVD players etc.) I love the VFD contrast ratio, readability at a distance and brightness. It's the cost, power inefficiency and heat output that are the issues. Too bad. -- Mark Lanctot "Make it so it doesn't suck" is a good design target, but hard to implement - Michael Herger ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51686 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
