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Were the in flight entertainment touchscreens really capactive? I've found that such designs have almost exclusively been resistive. The resistive designs are
by kevin_b_er 9y ago
Were the in flight entertainment touchscreens really capactive? I've found that such designs have almost exclusively been resistive. The resistive designs are cheaper, but also tend to be designed with a high threshold. The two put together makes a lot of resistive touchscreens feel sluggish. You feel like you have to mash the heck out of them to get them to act sometimes. On the upside they don't require human capacitance to work, just screen pressure.
- ViViDboarder 9y agoI imagine they meant resistive, however newer planes do have capacitive screens now.
- richrichardsson 9y agoI've often thought the genius who thought it was a good idea to put a crappy low sensitivity touchscreen directly behind my head needs to be kicked squarely in the nuts, repeatedly.
- panda88888 9y agoNewer planes have capacitative touch now. They even rolled their own implementation of Apple cover flow.
- emodendroket 9y agoThe guy probably has the terms mixed up.
- rconti 9y agoOh man, I was on a recent Austrian 767 trans-atlantic flight where they use a touchscreen (capacitive, I suppose) for the seat controls. Where did they put it? Right under where your forearm would go. There was no visual confirmation for hitting the buttons, which mean it was virtually impossible to tell if your seat was doing what you wanted it to do when you 'pressed' the buttons, but then it would randomly do stuff you DIDN'T want it to do just while you're sitting there. I took to leaving my phone on top of the seat controls, but even then seemed to have weird gremlins. I'm not sure who designed that, but it was.. not smart. Poor design, poor implementation.