PDC Dev Team -- Plasma Screen Application at PDC

Posted By: scobleizer | Oct 7th, 2005 @ 1:48 PM | 99,698 Views | 36 Comments
If you were at the PDC last month you saw these plasma screens all over the place. They use RSS and the new Windows Presentation Foundation. Follow us along to to the PDC and meet the guys who built the screens and see them in use at the PDC. They even used Flickr to distribute attendees' own photos!

Jeff Sandquist, Ernie Booth, Joe Smith are the ones who did this app. Pretty cool!
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#Oct 7th, 2005 @ 2:46 PM
dahat
dahat
I know that you say that there is no editing on Channel 9... I do think that we would all forgive you if you were to yank out everything in that video prior to you saying “take two” around 2:25, still quite funny to see though.
#Oct 7th, 2005 @ 4:19 PM
Kryptos
Kryptos
Backup People!

Would love to see the code for the display. Scoble can you post a link if and when it becomes available?

Great stuff.

 

 

#Oct 7th, 2005 @ 4:43 PM
dahat
dahat
I must say after seeing that video... I’m awed, humbled... and a little afraid.

When I first heard about the displays, I figured they were using something not unlike a Sencore HDTV996A or VP3340 (two products I built), both of which play an MPEG-2 transport stream (not unlike what you would pick up over the air) and either modulates it to an RF channel (exactly like what is broadcast OTA in the US) or decodes it and provides an HD DVI or RGB output.

These things are often used for in store advertising and information as well as pre film advertising at movie theaters... Everything that they put out is pre-recorded and schedulable... and seeing the level of detail and dynamic display is... mind boggling and makes me wonder just how far people are going to want to take displays like those shown here and how soon my bosses or one of our customers is going to want something like that built.
#Oct 7th, 2005 @ 9:56 PM
Tyler Brown
Tyler Brown
Bullets change governments far surer than votes.
Amazing application, I truly am in awe. I can't believe that no one else mentioned this while the PDC was going on! I'd love to see this thing in action.. any possibility of the code being released for this, or is it a personal project that the authors would like to keep under wraps?

I'm peticularly interested in how they went about changing the level of detail for the expanded and collapsed grip displaying the session information. It'd also be interesting to see how they did the grid animation from expanded to collapsed...
#Oct 8th, 2005 @ 12:01 AM
Ernie Booth
Ernie Booth
The Electron Sculptor

As for the source code we are going to release it.  We have a few minor tweaks to make it understandable.   Big Smile

#Oct 8th, 2005 @ 7:50 AM
byron
byron
strike1
;)I wanted some code driver specs for my plasma.
HDGas and HDLCD resolution changes.....DVI/HDMI
Connections...I love the plasma Apps...pretty cool stuff.
Robert I need a touch...link if poss.
Love it.........Tongue Out
#Oct 8th, 2005 @ 7:56 AM
byron
byron
strike1
Im integrating SAT/CABLE/WIRELESS/MOBILE/network and internet.
Researching CE.NET Win embedded vertical, VS2005,........Tongue Out
#Oct 8th, 2005 @ 8:00 AM
byron
byron
strike1
I Love this stuff.....Digital Apps.....on digital displays great for all
Industries, both business and entertainment.......There should be a
great more interest in this digital area, combining convergent
integrated technologies.....using delivery method in digital only.Tongue Out
#Oct 8th, 2005 @ 8:58 AM
Tyler Brown
Tyler Brown
Bullets change governments far surer than votes.
Ernie, I didn't quite understand the logistics that were explained during the video. You've got one PC running the application, and all of the screens are feeding off of this one application. Does that mean that you basically have the video-out from the PC going to several splitters/amplifiers to send the signal to each plasma display without any signal degradation? We never went 'upstairs' in the video to see the hardware aspect of it all.
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