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Dear Friends & Partners: We are already in the middle
of 2010 and I hope and assume that 2010 have had a more relaxed start for you
than 2009. Our start in the year 2010
has been as positive as the business year 2009 ended. Besides your trust in
our performance shown with your orders, our innovative products and concepts are
furthermore generating new significant business also. Just before Christmas
we won one of the largest orders in the last years versus global competition:
11,000 x 15” digital posters for the shops of a major worldwide brand
in entertainment markets. We will all be furthermore confronted
by difficult situations in this year 2010: tough competition of Asian
competitors, currency fluctuations between Euro, Dollar and Yen, the dangerous
level of public debt in our western countries and the total outage of our
governments at the Later we will have to answer
our children and grandchildren why we kept our habits and life styles at the
cost of their future. We as the Data Display Group
with all our European and My personal opinion concerning the
business year 2010 is as follows. Who missed out on basic renewal in 2008/9
will be faced with problems to recover. Whoever is able to convert ideas
directly in customer benefits will be the winner. Our customers are willing
to pay a better price for real innovations & benefits, but real
innovation means a significant advantage in comparison with the former
product. In the following economic period these companies will come out on
top, which have the better products, the more intelligent business processes
and the most satisfied customers. A long and interesting 2010 is
waiting for our activities. Let us closely work together! Yours, Bernhard Staller Founder & President of
the Data Display Group Managing Director of Distec
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EU-directive
2005/32/EG for energy consuming appliances2 ·
New Samsung 43“ Bar-type
Display2 ·
Additional version of Samsung
52” DID-panel3 ·
New
Samsung 55“ P-DID Panel LTI5503 ·
LED-backlighted
15" displays with 950 resp. 850 cd/m² brightness. 3 ·
Digital
Picture Player - LAN-controller ArtistaNET III4 ·
Windows 7 for our
Artista-platforms4 ·
RSS-Newsfeed for ArtistaMEDIA. 5 ·
Remote control/diagnostic: latest
status5 ·
Zytronic Multitouch from end of
Q2/2010 on6 ·
Customer application: Splitwall
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Our new Prisma–Boards are already today completely fulfilling the EU-directive „2005/32/EG for energy
consuming appliances“, which is valid since January 1st,
2010 (max. 1-2W power dissipation in power-off mode since January 1st,
2010 and below 1W from January 1st, 2014 on). Power dissipation Prisma III and PrismaMEDIA II: 0,5W. |
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At
the end of last year we already presented the LTI430LA01 which will be introduced to the market now. The LTI430LA01 is a so called bar-type
Display with a diameter of 43“, a resolution
of 1920 x 480 and a length/height ratio of 4:1. Due
to its Super-PVA technology it features an all-around viewing angle of 178°
(horizontally and vertically). A typ. contrast
value of 3000:1, a brightness value
of 700 cd/m² and a fast response time of 8 msec makes it a perfect solution for digital signage- and
advertising applications. Target markets for example are "Overhead-Displays“ above
sales counters in fast food restaurants, but also areas like facility management. For
more information please click here. Samples will be available from March on,
larger quantities from the end of Q2/2010 on. For further questions please contact our sales team.
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What
means DID? It is the abbreviation for Digital Information Display, Samsung’s leading TFT technology
for professional use, which is different to typical TV panels (which are specified
for 8 hours/day use only). The LTI520HB02 (diagonal size: 52"; resolution:
1920x1080) is a new version of the business-DID family for applications like multimedia-,
video- or Digital Signage. The 500 nits LTI520HB02 has a lower
brightness than the P-DID
LTI520HB01 with 700 nits. The mechanical construction is based on a larger
bezel. Despite the bigger size this TFT is trimmed on power efficiency and
the weight is only 19 kg. According to our philosophy this
display will also be available as a plug&play-solution based on our
controller platforms, e.g. our HDMI(HDCP)
/VGA/DVI/Video/3G-SDI–converter
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In
the middle of Q2/2010 we will start supplying samples of the
new 55“ DID-Panel LTI550HF-02
with a Full HD resolution (1920x1080;
60 Hz). Just like the other
members of the P-DID family the LTI550 also features a brightness of 700 cd/m², a typical contrast ratio of 3000:1
and a fast response time for an excellent video performance. An important issue for the design-in is
having a matching solution for the panel’s special Power-on-Sequencing.
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Also
new in our product range are two 15“
displays, which are produced in our The G150X1-L02-V444G is a transflective 15" TFT-Display with an LED-backlight
and AR-frontpolariser. With its very high brightness value of
950 cd/m² it is a perfect platform for e.g. applications in the multimedia
and advertising sector. Due to the wide working temperature Top -30..70°C it can be used in
outdoor applications without the need of a special, expensive temperature
management. The additional transflective upgrade improves the readability in
direct sunshine. The optimized viewing direction for this display is 6:00. For more information concerning
this panel please click here. The G150X1-L03-V508B is a transmissive
15" TFT-Display with a LED-backlight and a special AR-front for optimized sunshine readability. For
this version the brightness is
specified at 850 cd/m² and the operating temperature is specified at
-30..80°C. The optimized viewing
direction is 12:00. For more
information concerning this panel please click here. Both
panels have an XGA resolution (1024 x
768 pixels) and a good viewing angle of 160° (horizontally and vertically). Different
with CCFL backlight units, the LED backlight can be driven without the
typical high voltage and high frequency. This makes the approval of EMI tests
a lot easier. For the LED backlight/rails we are offering our own, perfectly adjusted LED-converter CCBR (up
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In order to supply state-of-the-art
technology in non-PC LAN-controllers, we have developed the "big
brother" of our very successful ArtistaNET
II - digital Poster controller: The ArtistaNET
III digital Picture Player (for local slide shows with internet-update
function). The ArtistaNET III is compatible in function to the ArtistaNET
II, but much more powerful as it is based on a RISC CPU (1.2 GHz). Nevertheless
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Features of ArtistaNET III - digitale
Picture Player: -
1GHz Ethernet Interface -
512MB on-board for local storage of slide shows
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unlimited extension of memory by additional SD-Card connector -
slide shows in native resolution (no scaling = perfect picture quality) -
Project-based functionalities possible (e.g. user defined fading, audio via USB
etc.) Of
course you can also use the ArtistaNET
III in combination with our full range of innovative software tools: WIN resp.
C#/COM Object- and Linux SDK, drivers, ArtistaDisplayPrinter, ArtistaControlCenter.
Timing: samples
already in lab test, ß-sample for customers around late April 2010, series
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Since October 2009 Microsoft has been
marketing Windows 7 as the successor
product for the relatively unpopular popular SW-platform Our R&D team has been working
hard since the summer of 2009 to present the Windows 7 adaption for all of our
SW-tools (extended desktop, driver, SDK, user software ACC & ADP) for use
with the Artista-hardware platforms. The WDMM is causing a total new
structure of the Artista Desktop Driver Module. The strategic approach has been
the use of the official WDDM API for the independence of the Microsoft Service Packs and other
existing graphics drivers offered by 3rd party SW companies. Therefore the
flexible and modular driver concept of the Artista series is alive. Based on
this SW concept we can create unique customized
driver developments for your industrial applications: fast, industrial proven and cost
efficient. The ß-Version of the Artista Desktop Driver is already available
and was already supplied to selected customers. The touch-screen support
should be ready in the second half of March. The complete implementation with
downloadable installation should be ready around QII 2010. We can already
start with project-oriented customized adaptations. Please contact our sales
team for more information. Stefan Warmuth R&D Manager Artista HW &
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With our Network-Mediaplayer ArtistaMEDIA it is now possible to perform RSS-Newsfeeds! The video-content is downloaded e.g. from a FTP-Server via
pull-technology by the ArtistaMEDIA. To improve the up-to-dateness of the
content we developed a new software service: RSS Newsfeed as a defined part of the playlist. These newsfeeds are automatically
implemented into the playlist within the layout, which is defined by you. You
just need to define the colour and layout of the text as well as the topics
(e.g. politics, economy, sports etc.). Everything else is generated by our
Newsfeed-algorithm. Are you interested to improve your
content? Then please ask your sales partner for our service package. Please click here for
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With the ARCB Artista
Remote Control Board we have been developing a
sophisticated solution over the last 2 years for applications where a remote
control/diagnostic of TFT-monitors with unique functionalities is needed. All currents and signals between the
display controller (e.g. supplied by an IPC or a VGA/DVI converter board) and
the TFT itself are transferred via the ARCB-board and permanently monitored. If there is
any miss-match between a defined range of panel currents and -signals, the
ARCB board immediately sends a failure message via Ethernet/Internet or
RS-485 to a control room. Depending on project-oriented functionalities the
display unit can be switched-off/on with a firmware-defined algorithm. Besides
the alarm-functionality all operational values can be permanently recorded.
Other standard functionalities are
an operating hours counter, an integrated brightness regulation via a digital
ambient light sensor and a temperature controlled fan management. NEW (option): Sensors for shock resp. vibrations
(vandalism protection), humidity and proximity. For the ARCB we developed the handling & analysis open source
software ARCS, which can be
downloaded from our website.
This software enables the configuration of the boards via web-browser and the
download of the currently measured values via the serial interface. The
information is generated as an XML-file.
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The Projected
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will also be available as multi-touchscreens
at approx. the end of Q II / 2010. Projected capacitive touchscreens are perfectly designed for
ruggedized and vandalism-protected applications in public as well as
industrial areas. A significant advantage of this technology is that the
surface is very resistant against all industrial detergents and solvents,
dirt or grease. This is possible due to no coatings on the front side, and
the sensor-medium being inside the glass. Hence these touchscreens can be
also used with gloves. All standard sizes between 5.7” and
82” are available. A project-oriented focus will allow you to order
every custom size. Zytronic will introduce a brand new touch controller with a new
processor architecture in late Q II.
This new controller is designed to support multitouch functionalities (dual-touch) and gesturing under Windows
7. An interesting additional new feature will be the
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As always we would like to introduce
an interesting customer application to you (here realized by our The ·
diagonal size of 5 - 6 m for a perfect presentation for everybody,
even in the backmost seats ·
a mechanical gap between the single TFTs as small as possible to have
no loss of content There was only one choice: the LTI460AA04. The Samsung LTI460AA04
is a 46" TFT-panel (HD resolution 1366x768), which is especially
designed for seamless split-/videowalls. A bezel-width of only 3.5mm per
display is a world record!
The LTI460AA04 has a superior optical
performance with a brightness value of
700 cd/m², a contrast ratio
of 3000:1 as well as a perfect viewing angle of 178° making NASA’s
decision easy. It would
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Distec GmbH Augsburger Str. 2b D-82110 Germering Tel.: +49
(0)89 / 89 43 63 - 0 Fax: +49
(0)89 / 89 43 63 - 131 E-Mail: sales@distec.de Internet: www.distec.de HRB 111484 München ID-Nr. DE811983335 |
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