Conference nesbit::modular

159.0. "VGA Cards for LCD" by RTOMS::RTOWTE::reuss (sigan me los buenos) Fri Jan 24 1997 13:05

Hi all,

	maybe somebody of you had already to offer DMCC together
	with an LCD. Not that easy to find the adapters for it, isnt't
	it.

	I did search for information about LCD VGA Adapters and 
	found some results. Has anybody additional information?

>1. Real LCD VGA Cards
>                I have only found one Vendor who is offering such devices.
>                It is a company called EARTH Computer Technologies. They
>                are specialist on flat-plan technologies and offer as well
>                any kind of LCD's. They have two LCD VGA controllers in 	                  
>                there portfolio. This are:

>                a) EarthVision/ISA
>                        - Support for CRT and LCD simultaneous
>                        - Support of LCD, Color STN, Color Active Matrix TFT ..
>                        - Resolution up to 1024 * 768
>                        - 280 $
>                        - Partnumer CNT-EV-xx

>                b) Earth LCD/M
>                        - Support of only one LCD
>                        - only monochrome LCD
>                        - Resolution up to 640 * 480
>                        - 160 $
>	          - Partnumer CNT-LCDM-x
> 	   They call there prices Q1 prices, so it looks like you               			               
>               can maybe get an better price with higher  You can find
>                all this and more information on the web-page
>                 http://www.flat-panel.com/
                        

>   2. Proprietary Solution

>                You can find several Vendors who offer their own Solutions
>                for instance a company called DENSITRON they have                   	                  
>                controllercards for their LCD's. I don't have no Information                                                    
>                about prices. If you want to take a look at this solution you
>                can take a look at http://www.densitron.com


>        3. Special Soltuion for you and your customer

>                I have found some smaller companies which offer spcial
>                solutions which are made after the needs of the customer
>               one company is for instance ABLE Design. They are
>               specialist on LCD and Touchscreen Technologie. You can  
>                find them at
>                             www.able-design.de.


>        4. PCMCIA
>
>                Another solution would be a PCMCIA Card. S3 offers a high-
>                end adapter which. Sounds quit expencive.
>
>
>        This are the differend solutions I found in the short time, moreover
>        it looks like that there are differende kind's of LCD's. The normal
>        LCD's which need a special controller and LCD's which can be  
>        used with normal VGA cards. I don't have no further information  
>        about this yet. 

...Werner

    The traditional approach with LCDs has been to use custom controllers.
    
    More recently, lots of people have LCD displays which you just plug into
    a standard VGA card (subject to resolution+refresh rate stuff).
    
    An industrial computing or system builder trade magazine should have
    contacts for your area. The contacts will vary depending on whether you
    want a matched LCD/controller pair (see .0), a display panel with VGA
    interface to build into another piece of equipment (e.g. Sony do one),
    or something which is basically a VGA monitor with LCD instead of tube
    (e.g. Taxan Crystalvision), which you can park on a desk or whatever
    "as is".
    
    I have Taxan Europe's number as +44 1344 484646. I can't remember which
    piece of Sony does the displays.
    
    For slightly different circumstances, Wyse do an LCD Xterminal. Just
    plug in to power and Ethernet.
    
    regards
    john

    Last week's Electronics Weekly (UK rag) had an item in from a company
    called CTX who do LCD monitor-replacements.