by mtuandrew
DutchRailnut wrote:There is no longer part,Does Solari know that?
You can say there isn’t a budget for the parts, but to say the parts don’t exist (or couldn’t be made) is a bit much.
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DutchRailnut wrote:There is no longer part,Does Solari know that?
DutchRailnut wrote:There is no longer part,All your base are belong to us.
Arborwayfan wrote:Now, if Amtrak's new boards are playing ads, that's an annoying sign of inadequate funding and too much funding for competing modes (cars).Virtually any mode of transport has advertising. It don’t take that as inadequate funding but rather good use of assets. Airports, city buses, and subways all have advertising. Heck, Amtrak advertises at Chicago Midway.
Arborwayfan wrote:Solari boards are fun, but they are fun because they have hundreds of moving parts. LED boards are simpler, should last longer, and, as a bonus, are much more flexible. In Oslo Sentralstasjon, busier than almost any station in the United States, they have an enormous LED board.Singapore is the 18th busiest airport in the world (2017), and has a Solari flip board (pic mine). You can tell from the departure times that it has a heck of a lot more going on than the 30st one. My flight was at 5:50, 3rd upcoming departure, or I would have tried to video it changing.
hs3730 wrote:Everything today should be packet based digital data and a display board just transmits a small amount of data. A disolay board is useless as we have smartphones which can transmit more information and can also transmit data at the same time so I always have wondered why display boards are even still utilized except by those who don’t have smartphones.Arborwayfan wrote:Solari boards are fun, but they are fun because they have hundreds of moving parts. LED boards are simpler, should last longer, and, as a bonus, are much more flexible. In Oslo Sentralstasjon, busier than almost any station in the United States, they have an enormous LED board.Singapore is the 18th busiest airport in the world (2017), and has a Solari flip board (pic mine). You can tell from the departure times that it has a heck of a lot more going on than the 30st one. My flight was at 5:50, 3rd upcoming departure, or I would have tried to video it changing.
adamj023 wrote:Everything today should be packet based digital data and a display board just transmits a small amount of data. A disolay board is useless as we have smartphones which can transmit more information and can also transmit data at the same time so I always have wondered why display boards are even still utilized except by those who don’t have smartphones.Batteries run out of charge