Thread: Transreflective Upgrade - The Review

can hardly call it a "review" when the touch screen monitors have not been done yet, now can you?

Originally Posted by Stealth97

can hardly call it a "review" when the touch screen monitors have not been done yet, now can you?

Sure you can...Its a review of a transreflective upgrade, not a review of a transreflective upgrade of a touchscreen monitor. This is what you will get if you upgrade your lcd. I cant say how it will look with a new touchscreen in front of it, but considering you are paying 150+ dollars for a quality touchscreen, im sure it will look a helluva lot better than what we got now!

Nathan did not have any upgraded touchscreens at the time I was there.

Originally Posted by Quattro

Just by removing the touchscreen on the lilli or xenarc you can greatly improve visibility of the screen. The touchscreen is where you get majority of your reflections from. It's kinda hard to tell how good this upgrade will be from the pics u posted. I'll have to wait and see the pics of an upgrade done to a screen with a touchscreen. So hurry up and get ur upgrade done so we can compare.

Whats the point of having the screen mounted in the dash if you dont have someway of controlling your pc? This may be a good route to take for those of you with some kind of controller mounted close at hand, but otherwise the TS is a necessity

Untill we have before and after shots side by side it's hardly a review. That monitor looks great but that's not to say that his Xenarc will.
If it does make a big improvement I am down for the upgrade though!

Originally Posted by nameeri

Whats the point of having the screen mounted in the dash if you dont have someway of controlling your pc? This may be a good route to take for those of you with some kind of controller mounted close at hand, but otherwise the TS is a necessity

I said nothing about removing ur touchscreen and running your system that way.
All I said was your comparing apples to oranges. I said you can greatly improve the visiblity of the screen just by removing the touchscreen and you showed us pictures of a LCD that never have a touchscreen installed on it. Even without the upgrade that LCD would have been better then the screens in our cars. So it does not prove how well the upgrade will be on our screens.

it's a ray of hope, if you're not happy that he called it a 'review' then chill out and wait until he has his monitor installed and then form your opinion of the product. he's not here trying to sell us the product, just trying to help us out.

side note, I have had my laptop in my cars a few times and have never been able to read it in any type of daylight...so the example of just the laptop screen gave me some hope

Originally Posted by rotarypower101

Very interested in the outcome of this.

nameeri will you have access to a unmodded touch screen for comparison once you get it back, so you can do a true side by side?

If they can get anywhere near the readability of current transreflective devices this should make these much more usable.

Since FPD is so in to LCDs, did they have any opinions on upgrading brightness?
Do they deal with this aspect at all?

I already have plenty of photos of my current stock xenarc TS in bright daylight. Once I get it back ill take more pics of it after the upgrade, with the same lighting conditions and post them. This way, no one can say that the comparison is not equal. Ill be doing this soon, as soon as this week possibly. So hopefully within the next 3 weeks Ill have everything back and everyone can see what the results are like.

As far as the brightness is concerned, they did not mention the need to upgrade the backlighting. The transreflective upgrade actually uses the ambient light to increase the brightness of the lcd during the day. Whatever light is present passes through a polarizer and light columnizing filter, then passes through the front of the lcd, reflects off a mirror layer in the back of the lcd and thus produces a brighter picture. This is what makes these screens "Daylight Readable" Atleast thats the theory. What happens when additional components are added like a TS, who knows. But ill find out soon enough.