Akadi Technologies

If you were to go to an electronics store right now, well its kinda late, but if a store was open and you went, and you said “Hey, I’d like to buy a high definition TV with 720p resolution”, there is a chance that you could get 1 of about 10 different possible resolutions claiming to be 720p.  It is ridiculous.

I have personally seen the following resolutions masquerading as 720p:

1366×720
1366×768
1360×720
1360×768
1280×768
1024×768

Now according to wikipedia which we can all agree *wink* is the the definitive source of truth in the universe, 720p is actually 1280×720.

So, if you are purchasing a display to use with DAN, please, find out the resolution before you buy the display.  We will do our best to create templates for whatever resolution you get but, if you are going to have more than one display, do your best to get displays that truly have the same resolution.  It will save you some headaches.

Also, generally speaking, don’t get a plasma.  Besides the fact that a lot of the time their resolutions are kind of wacky, they tend to get burn-in. If you have never heard of burn-in check out the section on burn-in in the wikipedia article on plasma TV’s.

Hey all.

We were just up at the Student Union today (here at the U of U) and we’ve been working with them on installing DAN. They want to put some event schedule information, a shuttle route map, and other advertising on their displays. They’re going to be installing up to 13(!) displays throughout the Union.

Pretty cool stuff. So we welcome you, Student Union.

Aaron