Genuinely curious - what specifically were they not getting? Are you maybe referring to CDI failure?
Growing up in Russia I had the impression that Philips were OK TVs and VCRs. Then they came up with built-in ambilight (not available in the US last I checked) and it just blew my mind. I know projects like Hyperion exist to make ambilight experience available on arbitrary tvs but I never had the time to play with it.
On topic - I could see myself using this display to see reference docs on the side but probably not at the price of 850$. Google sez that's how much they cost in the markets where they are available
We were kids so don't look for anything deep, but their stuff even to my fashion-unconscious eyes looked ugly and it had a poor reputation for quality. Audio products definitely wasn't as good in sound quality as Aiwa and other Japanese companies.
Many years later I worked with a very neat voice recognition system of theirs, limited in scope but astonishingly low CPU use. What documentation they provided was nearly useless and I could never get it to work properly. They had something really amazingly good for the time, and they didn't know how to develop it or pitch it or sell it, they just didn't have a clue.
And we here again: somebody had an idea for which there seems to be no market testing, and frankly no common sense behind it. I mean, what need is it supposed to fulfil having a second mini-monitor latched onto your main monitor.
I mean, what need is it supposed to fulfil having a second mini-monitor latched onto your main monitor.
I'll be honest, I have been thinking about setting something pike this up.
I use macos for work and tiling window managers on Linux for personal stuff. It's probably a personal perception thing, but to me it seems that Mac is constantly running out of monitor space with its ui.
I switch tasks _a lot_ and the three monitors are just not enough, so I considered setting up a small sidecar monitor exclusively for a todo manager.
...but now that I typed it out I think it's going to be like a freeway problem - traffic isn't solved by getting more lanes; gotta have fewer cars.
My main screen is an ultrawide 38. I actually got around to tinker with Amethyst today to better utilize the space. It's a little bit janky but still works for me much better than the default macOS window manager thing.
Philips pretty much doesn't exist anymore, they have sold off most of their divisions one by one.
For example, a Philips monitor is now actually produced by TPV / MMD, who have an exclusive right to sell Philips-branded monitors. It's the same company making AOC and Envision.
They used to be a pretty good company, though! Its spinoffs are highly successful (NXP Semiconductors, Nexperia, ASML, parts of Thales, parts of Atos Origin), and it did create a boatload of innovations like the CD.
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When I was at school Philips was infamous for just not getting it. Looks like decades later nothing's changed.
I think there's an american word for this, or close: jagoff.
Genuinely curious - what specifically were they not getting? Are you maybe referring to CDI failure?
Growing up in Russia I had the impression that Philips were OK TVs and VCRs. Then they came up with built-in ambilight (not available in the US last I checked) and it just blew my mind. I know projects like Hyperion exist to make ambilight experience available on arbitrary tvs but I never had the time to play with it.
On topic - I could see myself using this display to see reference docs on the side but probably not at the price of 850$. Google sez that's how much they cost in the markets where they are available
We were kids so don't look for anything deep, but their stuff even to my fashion-unconscious eyes looked ugly and it had a poor reputation for quality. Audio products definitely wasn't as good in sound quality as Aiwa and other Japanese companies.
Many years later I worked with a very neat voice recognition system of theirs, limited in scope but astonishingly low CPU use. What documentation they provided was nearly useless and I could never get it to work properly. They had something really amazingly good for the time, and they didn't know how to develop it or pitch it or sell it, they just didn't have a clue.
And we here again: somebody had an idea for which there seems to be no market testing, and frankly no common sense behind it. I mean, what need is it supposed to fulfil having a second mini-monitor latched onto your main monitor.
I see, thanks!
I'll be honest, I have been thinking about setting something pike this up.
I use macos for work and tiling window managers on Linux for personal stuff. It's probably a personal perception thing, but to me it seems that Mac is constantly running out of monitor space with its ui.
I switch tasks _a lot_ and the three monitors are just not enough, so I considered setting up a small sidecar monitor exclusively for a todo manager.
...but now that I typed it out I think it's going to be like a freeway problem - traffic isn't solved by getting more lanes; gotta have fewer cars.
I have a 32" monitor, 3840 x 2160 and if you don't allow the OS to scale everything by 150%, you have an awful lot of room.
I actually wish I'd bought same res but at 34" or 36".
My main screen is an ultrawide 38. I actually got around to tinker with Amethyst today to better utilize the space. It's a little bit janky but still works for me much better than the default macOS window manager thing.
Philips pretty much doesn't exist anymore, they have sold off most of their divisions one by one.
For example, a Philips monitor is now actually produced by TPV / MMD, who have an exclusive right to sell Philips-branded monitors. It's the same company making AOC and Envision.
They used to be a pretty good company, though! Its spinoffs are highly successful (NXP Semiconductors, Nexperia, ASML, parts of Thales, parts of Atos Origin), and it did create a boatload of innovations like the CD.