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I wonder if there'd be a market for amber LCD panels these days - the aesthetics of the past with the manufacturing ease, durability and technology of the prese

I wonder if there'd be a market for amber LCD panels these days - the aesthetics of the past with the manufacturing ease, durability and technology of the present. Heck maybe you can put it on-board as a color option in the OSD. (yes I know this is all possible with software like xrandr and redshift, thanks - having it done on the display side might give different results)

somat 4y ago
I don't know if it needs to be amber, I mean I like amber, I set my terminal emulators to use a amber on black color scheme, but I don't know if it is the best. But I would like a high resolution monochrome display, there is something about not having subpixels that I think would lead to a very sharp display, good for reading stuff on. see also: eink displays
- bee_rider 4y ago
  We’re going to have to figure out how to connect one of those old gameboy lights to an eink display
justsomehnguy 4y ago
> market for amber LCD panels Somewhere about 15 units world-wide? Not a best opportunity.. > having it done on the display side might give different results If you take an OLED panel with a good pre/post-processor for the text mode you can get a pretty good results, but who needs a real text mode nowadays? But yeah, I have at least two ancient Android tablets and at least one with Windows, I would love to repurpose at least one of them as an amber display to show the status of the services.
anikom15 4y ago
Current monitors can’t actually replicate the true color of amber phosphors (and the green ones). It falls outside the gamut of the monitor.
- LoganDark 4y ago
  I think they meant a monochrome LCD with a nice amber backlight.
- kuschku 4y ago
  Is that amber outside Rec709/sRGB, or outside Rec.2020? Because many modern monitors can display all of DCI-P3 and the vast majority of Rec.2020
  - anikom15 4y ago
    DCI-P3 (barely) covers amber (P3), but not the green one (P1). It does cover P2, which is also green and is a more gentle green. I think it was used more for oscilloscopes than monochrome monitors.
7speter 4y ago
I kinda think the functionality has been replaced, maybe reduced to e-ink displays? The contrast, the adjacent simplicity and focus involved with having one job of simply displaying textual information? Now, amber e-ink displays, that would be really interesting to see :)

somat 4y ago

I don't know if it needs to be amber, I mean I like amber, I set my terminal emulators to use a amber on black color scheme, but I don't know if it is the best. But I would like a high resolution monochrome display, there is something about not having subpixels that I think would lead to a very sharp display, good for reading stuff on. see also: eink displays

bee_rider 4y ago
We’re going to have to figure out how to connect one of those old gameboy lights to an eink display

justsomehnguy 4y ago

> market for amber LCD panels Somewhere about 15 units world-wide? Not a best opportunity.. > having it done on the display side might give different results If you take an OLED panel with a good pre/post-processor for the text mode you can get a pretty good results, but who needs a real text mode nowadays? But yeah, I have at least two ancient Android tablets and at least one with Windows, I would love to repurpose at least one of them as an amber display to show the status of the services.

anikom15 4y ago

Current monitors can’t actually replicate the true color of amber phosphors (and the green ones). It falls outside the gamut of the monitor.

LoganDark 4y ago
I think they meant a monochrome LCD with a nice amber backlight.
kuschku 4y ago
Is that amber outside Rec709/sRGB, or outside Rec.2020? Because many modern monitors can display all of DCI-P3 and the vast majority of Rec.2020
- anikom15 4y ago
  DCI-P3 (barely) covers amber (P3), but not the green one (P1). It does cover P2, which is also green and is a more gentle green. I think it was used more for oscilloscopes than monochrome monitors.

7speter 4y ago

I kinda think the functionality has been replaced, maybe reduced to e-ink displays? The contrast, the adjacent simplicity and focus involved with having one job of simply displaying textual information? Now, amber e-ink displays, that would be really interesting to see :)