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[Fred Cisin]

> > Back when Comdex was still active, there were a lot of technologies used
> > for billboard sized screens.  One of the techniques that I saw was a
> > billboard made of thousands of 2" CRTs, using each 2" CRT as a single
> > pixel.  Each CRT only displayed 3 "lines", RED, BLUE, and GREEN.
>
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Richard wrote:
> Wow.  I'd love to have seen a picture of that puppy!  I wonder how
> much power it drew when turned on :-)

Good question.
A lot of the billboard sized screens had trailered generators.  I never
knew which were due to amount of power consumption, v which were just a
lack of convenient outlet.

I would have liked to see the multiple CRT one redone with
software/firmware to present a portion of the image on each screen.
(I want a multi-Giga-pixel display!)


There was a nice "portable" screen made of red and green LEDs.
Now that blue has come down to a reacheable price, that could be
done as a really nice one.