And what would Nasta say about this? I could buy a kit and send it to him to look at it.
A remark for Bill: imho this 640x480 LCD does not have a lot in common with the super LCD/plasma etc.. screens sold as TV sets nowadays: The design is very old, there are different technologies, and the price...
But in the QL world 640x480 + 16 shades of grey, it is still usable.
Arnould
Jeremy Taffel a �crit:
I saved the image.
On analysis, the image is only 287x197 pixels, including the white background, . The picture itself is therefore only about 200x140. The screen actually gives 640x480.
So the spatial resolution as shown is about 3 times worse than the real thing. However, before you get too excited, the image was 8 bit, and all 256 shades of grey were used. The device seems to be specified as only having 16 shades - if I interpret the 15:1 contrast ratio correctly. Reducing the image to 16 shades of grey degrades it significantly. I tried it, and it does not look nearly as good.
So, the answer seems to be that the nixon+presley picture shown is not what the device gives. It gives more pixels, but fewer grey levels.
Jeremy
This small LCD screen http://www.earthlcd.com/SK1001.HTM can be bought
