Thursday, March 20, 2008

LCD Wall Mounts

The greatest feature of LCD TV sets are their slim footprint which opens new mounting alternatives—by using suitable LCD mounts. They form an essential part of the LCD television set-up. LCD mounts offer an efficient and convenient way by which your LCD television can be attached to the wall. Here are few of the best LCD mounts available in the market nowadays:

The SmartMount Universal Tilt Wall Mount features one-touch tilt, ability to tilt the screen up-to 15 degrees without the help of tools and can hold LCD televisions varying from 10" to 30" flat screen panels. Since the wall plate is kept ultra slim it can easily hold the LCD screen close to the wall for an installation which is best suited for POS stations or office applications. For a quick and convenient installation SmartMount can be mounted to a metal stud with metal fastening.

The peerless LCD Flat Panel Articulating Wall Mount provides cost-effective mounting solution for 10" to 22" flat panel screens. They are really flexible and can fold flat against the wall to a 2" depth or stretch out to 15.25". They are all well designed and considered perfect for conference rooms, offices, hotel rooms, etc. It has 180 degrees of rotation for the best screen positioning. It is comparatively comfortable when it comes to installation.

The Atdec Flush Universal LCD Mount is a complete wall mounting solution for 90% of the monitors measuring 19" while Moview wall mounts are available in trendy designs and ten- year warrantee from the manufacturer.

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

I-TECH INTRODUCES SUNLIGHT READABLE LCD/ HIGH BRIGHTNESS LCD MONITOR TECHNOLOGY

I-Tech company has introduced Sunlight Readable LCD/ High Brightness LCD technology monitor. With this technology, displays can now be viewed in very high ambient brightness, direct sunlight or indirect lighting conditions. A sunlight readable display is an LCD with greater screen brightness and an excellent image quality. They are ideal as public display, outdoor kiosks and outdoor vehicle application.

The lighter sensor in Sunlight Readable LCD/ High Brightness LCD Monitor Technology measures the external brightness as per varying environmental conditions and transfers the information to display, which then controls the brightness automatically. The brightness increases or decreases according to lighter or darker environment conditions outside respectively.

The Light sensor sends signal to MCU via Iˆ2C interface after detecting the change in brightness outside. MCU will then send out PWM signal to the inverter which in turn will change the brightness of panel.

The Transflective sunlight readable displays come in sizes ranging from 8.4" to 42" with contrast ratios of 300:1, 550:1 and 800:1 and 1366 x 768 , 800 x 600 resolution, brightness ranging from 250 to 750 nits.

Monday, February 18, 2008

ITECH UNVIELS 46” OUTDOOR LCD GS4600 MONITOR

i-Tech has launched its All Weather / Outdoor Full-Sun environment Sunlight Readable LCD Monitor, equipped with full daylight-readable displays. It enables you to view and operate display under all weather situations and full- sunlight. These LCD monitors are ideal to be deployed to any indoor and outdoor digital signage application for retail stores, restaurants and gas stations among others.

Its main features comprise of contrast ratios of 3000:1 which helps in resisting sunlight conditions while still producing sharp images. It comes with active area size of 46”, panel resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels, IP Class of IP65 and Input voltage OF 110V.

Other technical specifications offered are operation temperature range of -40 to +45C in case of direct sunlight and -20 to 50C in case it is shielded., a viewing angle with level - 170 and uprightness - 170 0. It also comes with external dimensions of 1190 x 703 x 260 mm in order to guarantee a proper functionality.

i-Tech claims to produce the largest and the brightest SunLight Readable LCD Monitor in sizes ranging from 32” to 65” and a colour range of 16.7 Million colours.

ITECH INTRODUCES VBRIGHT, HIGH BRIGHTNESS LCDs

i-Tech has launched VBright, its high brightness LCDs with display sizes ranging from 12.1”, 15”, 17”, 19” and 31.5”. These LCD monitors can attain brightness of about 2600cd/m2 which in turn results in long life of backlights.

i-Techs’ VBright weighs 2.75 kg to 20 kg and has contrast ratio ranging from 500:1 to 800:1. Its power comsumption is upto 250 W and supports resolution of upto 1366 × 768 / WXGA. Its external dimensions range from 322 × 218 × 78 mm to 765 × 445 × 130 mm and operating temperature ranges from 0 °C to 40 °C.

Other technical specifications include automatic light sensor dimming options which provide wide range of signal inputs including DVI and composite video. It also maintains color gamut’s and contrast ratio’s even at high brightness levels for outstanding picture quality. It is also available in custom sizes with optional touch screen, protection shield or stainless steel case.

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Digital Signage Issues

Digital signage is a comparatively new form of advertising that permits you to use electronic screens to broadcast information, commercials, or any message to several people.

Many companies are still reluctant to advance ahead with this new technology and are constantly judging the performance as there is no precise information on the Return on interest or ROI factor which questions the viability of this form of advertising. This unenthusiastic behavior is not good for the business but at the same time drives the technology companies to research more and generate the data that the customer would want to look at before making a purchase as every business would like to receive substantial gains in the form of good amount of ROI.

However this piece of information will be helpful to affirm your faith in this new technology to some extent. Digital signage has helped in the further growth and popularity of outdoor advertising and development of dedicated platform solutions. ROI – studies have illustrated digital signage as an efficient medium of helping customer in remembering and retaining displayed information in large-scale merchandising applications. Nowadays a small-scale retail digital signage installation can be realized at an affordable price of $4-6,000.

Friday, December 28, 2007

Digital signage

A new form of advertising is growing with great speed in the current industry known as the Digital Signage. In digital signage the electronic data is handled and controlled from an administrative console running the digital signage software and is sent across to others terminals without changing their physical location.

The content or messages displayed on the sign are revealed on every electronic screen that ranges from simple text and still images to full-motion video, with or without audio. The screen exhibit the message in scrolling message boards, LCD or plasma display panels, electronic billboards, projecting screens or any other display types that can be controlled electronically using a computer, facilitating the user to remotely change and manage their content generally through internet. All the control is with the administrative console which is nothing but a form of a computer or a digital device which handles all this work remotely. This innovative technology offers high return of investment than their traditional counterparts such as, printed signs.

Digital Signage serve various purposes that includes, providing information, effective medium of enhancing sales, advertising by third parties, improve customer experience, influences customer behavior, cost effective means of building a brand and helps in the creation of better and superior environment.With relatively cheap prices of plasma and LCD screens and easy accessibility of internet connectivity, Digital Signage technology has gained immense popularity and has emerged as one of the most effective medium of contemporary advertising. Digital Signage is found in retail outlets, transit hubs, doctor’s office, fast food restaurants schools, universities, churches and even gas stations.

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Green your existing data center

Do you know? Very soon the cost of providing energy to a server will exceed the server’s acquisition cost in its three years lifetime. Energy hogging data centers are constantly sending feelers to an enterprise to wake up and conserve power, especially since servers need to be up and running all the time.

There are several ways that can help you reduce the consumption of energy in data centers:

Reduce the number of servers with the help of various high-density alternatives available in the market that includes virtualization and blade servers. Minimize storage hardware by using SANs or NAS devices that helps in combining the storage space, which in turn reduces the power consumption in the data center and also signify reduced acquisition costs.

Installation of energy saving hardware like multicore CPUs minimizes unnecessary and external electronics. The latest innovation CPU performance-stepping technology enthusiastically adjusts the energy that processors needs in relationship to the processor load.
Dynamic control of a server’s internal fans can minimize the power required when the air in the data centre is cooler. Liquid cooling of server racks can confine the amount of energy required to eliminate heat from the data centre. Data centers can also use hot aisle/cold aisle configurations to improve cooling efficiency.