Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 10:59:31 -0700 (PDT) From: David Chien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Nuts and bolts of impoving LCD brightness
A few years ago, there was lots of talk about this. Man & Machine somewhere back east did the upgrades. Applied sheets of the 3M microsphere reflective sheeting behind the LCD panel to reflect more of the incoming light back out and thus increase the brightness of the panel a bit more than usual. Made things a bit more sunlight legible, but not that much more. However, don't expect it to get that much brighter. The Libretto panel will simply hover around the 100cd level and that's about as good as you'll get. Some companies out there probably sell compatible 6.4" LCD panels nowadays or at least something similar. Don't know if case mods would be needed, but certainly there are brighter LCD color panels produced today due to better lights, controllers, power converters, etc. If you've got a really good EE brain, it's a matter of dropping in a brighter bulb, wiring in the power converter and electronics to handle it, modifying the case to hold it all (maybe not if you can squeeze it in), and off you go. After all, the brightness of the panel really mostly just depends on the brightness of the light source of the panel anyways. d =) ===== adorable toshiba libretto The latest news and information for the Toshiba Libretto owner. http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? NEW from Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info1 ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
