Panoramic View on a Desktop.Panoram Technologies has released its high visual bandwidth desktop computer display system, the PV230 DSK DSK Disk DSK Dominique Strauss-Kahn (French Finance Minister 1997-99) DSK Deutsche Steinkohle AG DSK DSP Starter Kit (Texas Instruments) DSK Downstream Keyer DSK Dvorak Standard Keyboard , that provides an immersive 2.4 megapixels of screen real estate and accepts both computer and video inputs. The PV230 DSK offers Digital Direct DVI (1) (Digital Video Interactive) An earlier compression technique that provided up to 72 minutes of full-screen video on a CD-ROM. Acquired by Intel in 1988 from RCA's Sarnoff Research labs, Princeton, NJ, DVI never caught on. , RGBH/V, S-Video and RCA See RCA connector and video/TV history. composite inputs, recessed control buttons with one-touch manual input selection, only eleven mm of screen separation and a 4:1 aspect ratio. Panoram desktop visualisation systems feature three integrated, flat-screen LCD TFT active matrix display (hardware) active matrix display - A type of liquid crystal display where each display element (each pixel) includes an active component such as a transistor to maintain its state between scans. Contrast passive matrix display. panels that are compatible with most popular computer platforms, including Apple Macintosh OS 8/9/X, HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. , SGI Irix, Sun Solaris 2.8 and Windows 98/NT/ME/2000. Panoram's displays have been engineered to provide a maximum viewing and production environment, with minimal separation between images. Each system expands the computer users' visual gateway by providing a larger desktop on which to layout multi-application tasks. The three flat screens can operate as a single integrated display or as three independent displays running three different applications simultaneously. Panoram also produces a ruggedised version of its popular PV290 DSK (3.9 megapixel) system, the PV290 Mk 1 Field Deployable Unit, which is a portable, self-contained unit that can be carried and readied by two persons in less than ten minutes. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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