Thread: Onyx Boox as monitor
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Old 03-13-2019, 05:12 AM   #624
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Can anyone tell my of onyx HDMI is faster?
Your video seems to show approximately 5.5fps.
On the Max2 we counted approximately 6.5fps. It's slightly faster.

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It's hard to tell from some videos
We counted... Some of us would not bet that perceptual real-world experience would go against the numbers (unless you have a light trapping, motion-blur effect giving layer on top of the display...).

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laptop to ereader streamer ... especially over reverse adb
I see you are posting in the Monitor thread, but - any specific reason why not going native? (Although I can think of storage management issues.)
By the way: if you stream the video, you may be interested in doing that with some dot persistence optimization. The Floyd-Steinberg dithering algorithm that Onyx uses(/d?) on A2 is terrible for video, very costly in battery terms.

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all I know is that I would not waste any minute to watch a movie on the device
It is always reassuring to know that not everyone in the world has or had a thing for your wife.

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A2 mode is way faster
That in the video is A2, you cannot go that fast with precise waveforms (yet).

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In my opinion, I could recommend it for work only as a standalone device, running native terminal app which in turn can do ssh to your workstation. Forget about GUI terminals (VNC, RDP, etc.) and mouse workflow
And if you need to use VisiCalc? You seem to be missing the whole point.

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The HDMI is a marketing gimmick. People put a lot of hopes to make use of it but I seriously doubt there's a wide adoption amongst the owners
Maybe (rhetorical 'maybe') because Onyx implemented it badly - for example, but chiefly, forcing a blur by imposing a resolution which does not match the real display (not to mention forcing A2 mode).

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A nice passive display is not there yet, certainly it is not this device.
The Max2 can be very good for some tasks, even natively. It could be even better with proper software. That is why the Monitor thread exists.
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