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[-] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 60 points 3 months ago

Some of them are more like a giant, non-touch-screen tablets than monitors.

This probably just has this image saved into memory, and they can easily make it display something else.

[-] Duranie@literature.cafe 5 points 3 months ago

Is the image burning into the screen not a concern on these though?

[-] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 19 points 3 months ago

This displays often are not static, often displaying short video ads for seasonal items which take up the whole monitor.

Probably less than the burn-in of a taskbar or window header

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Reminds me of our old typing PC with the WordPerfect header and footer burned into the orange phosphor

[-] nik282000@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago

That colour had a smell, like a library.

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 1 points 3 months ago
[-] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 months ago

Yes.

There will either be a remote or just buttons on the display itself. You can select the source of what's being displayed from a USB drive or SD card, that's how it's displaying the current image. Some of them have built-in casting options like chromecast.

If it doesn't have something built it, it will have HDMI in, which makes a chromecast, roku, firestick, or even just a PC a quick option.

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 3 points 3 months ago

If it was stolen, it probably won't come with a remote. And don't many of these devices not have buttons anymore?

[-] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

Commercial displays often still have buttons, at least on units that are designed to go inside.

It also doesn't say that this was stolen. It could have been a unit replaced during a remodel.

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 1 points 3 months ago

Oh, right, a "remodel" just like the one that "fell off the truck"

It was stolen.

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