Thread: Best LCD - No compromises

You may want to ask turbocad. He is like the master of sunlight-readable laptop screens.

Come on LCD guru's. This is a valid question.
What has been your experience and did you settle for the monitor you have or do you think you bought or built the best available?
If you had an unlimited buget, would get the same monitor you have now? If not, what would you get?

It is very easy.

I would say 90%-95% of the screen used are regular.

The rest are all forms of sunlight readability. Mostly transflective, but there are other ways as well like just really high brightness, and more.

All are better at different things. There is not 1 screen to rule them all. For instance the high brightness is nice, but not at nighttime... See what I mean?

http://www.planarembedded.com/products/in-vehicle/ ? What you guys think?

http://www.planar.com/products/touch...tallVideo.html

Originally Posted by Halwa

http://www.planarembedded.com/products/in-vehicle/ ? What you guys think?

http://www.planar.com/products/touch...tallVideo.html

Just a transflective screen... that is a 12"... That is all. Transflective is much much better than regular, but there are better yet if money is no option. Think aircraft-grade.

Well, I just ordered my no compromise monitor. Here are some specs:

This display is 10.4" XGA (1024x768) resolution. VGA, S-Video and RCA inputs.
LED Backlighting
Brightness is rated @ 1000 nits, (which I'm told can be compared to a 1400-1500 nit CCFL display.)
Power consumption 18w
The contrast ratio is 800:1
The viewing angle is 75 degrees in all directions.
This is also a wide temp. display. It is rated for operation from -20 to +60 c.
Infrared touch screen with AR coating

Haven't decided whether to use an optical sensor or a dimmer for night time use (Dimming ratio 200:1)

I'm told this same monitor is used in the F15 fighter jet and many Coast Gaurd vessels. I won't see it for about 3 weeks. Then I need to fab a housing for the lcd and touch screen, and another for controllers.

how much was it & where did you get it?

to me, absolute best bang for the buck is a fujitsu st5031 with a 10.4" fully reflective screen. to me, if it was just the screen for $800 it wouldn't be too bad, but considering that $800 or so should get you the screen, a digitizer & a whole ulv pentium m machine, with ram, hardrive, legit copy of tablet edition operating system, it's definatley a great carpc & includes almost everything you'd need, great bang for the buck & 100% sunlight viewable always.

fujitsu also has a newer model that's a core solo with this screen but more $$$

Turbo - Did I understand you correctly? I just googled the st5031 and came up with a $2400 price tag. What was the $800 you were referring to?

This LCD is manufactured by LiteMax and is their "DuraPixle" model. Duayn from MotorcityTech is putting the components together along with IRTouch panel, AR coating, and custom wiring with quick connectors to remove the display from the vehicle.
I will be making an encloser for the LCD/Touch screen and mounting it seperatly from the controllers. It's going into a Jeep, so the touch screen needed to be resistant to scratching from dust and dirt.

As far as the price goes you would have to talk to Duayn as he has given some special pricing to me for this project and it wouldn't be fair post it. It will likely be too rich for most. Let's just say it is well over $1500. This is the first one he has put together so there is going to be a small learning curve.

My thoughts are that the display is the only part of the PC that I look at and interact with daily. If I can't see it or it agrivates me every time light hits it I don't want it. I'm sure I'm going to be happy with this one.

sounds like a cool screen, I've gotten stuff from duane several times, the touchscreen i use over the tablet screen is also from him

a while ago fujitsu was blowing out these tablets on ebay thru the fujitsu store, they were going anywhere from under $600 to just around $800, I still see them occationally on ebay in that range too, not refurbs from fujitsu, but some good used ones too. if your going to take it apart anyway & use your own touchscreen over it too then used won't even matter much, as you would be eliminating the plastic layer that would be scratched up or marked in any way from a used one.

the newer version with the core solo is up there over $1,500, but these st5031's should be available under a grand for sure. I paid like $700 direct from fujitsu for mine over 6 months ago... gotta hunt a little maybe