Real information rather thin at the moment. If anyone has anything to add - *please add it!*
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*Question* to a manager at Swiss Timing, developers of the [ABG 2012 scoring system|cimaWiki:The ABG system] (and many others)
_How do you drive LED score displays? Are they all different, or do they generally need a video-out feed or something? I have no idea, so any guidance would be most gratefully received._
*Answer*
* Depending on the technical specification of the boards (Full-Video Board, etc,) we define the interface, which we can use.
* We provide a scoreboard control machine to generate the output to the LED board (DVI, HDMI...). The provider of the scoreboards has to convert the signal (from our machine) and feed the scoreboard.
*Question*
Would I be right in thinking there are two broad categories of display?
a) Text only, basically you give it a string of text and that gets displayed.
b) Full video, basically capable of showing anything you would see on a TV. More complicated to set up because it needs a sort of video template into which the data is inserted, and then displayed.
*Answer*
Yes. You are right.
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*Question* to a manager at Swiss Timing, developers of the [ABG 2012 scoring system|cimaWiki:The ABG system] (and many others)
_How do you drive LED score displays? Are they all different, or do they generally need a video-out feed or something? I have no idea, so any guidance would be most gratefully received._
*Answer*
* Depending on the technical specification of the boards (Full-Video Board, etc,) we define the interface, which we can use.
* We provide a scoreboard control machine to generate the output to the LED board (DVI, HDMI...). The provider of the scoreboards has to convert the signal (from our machine) and feed the scoreboard.
*Question*
Would I be right in thinking there are two broad categories of display?
a) Text only, basically you give it a string of text and that gets displayed.
b) Full video, basically capable of showing anything you would see on a TV. More complicated to set up because it needs a sort of video template into which the data is inserted, and then displayed.
*Answer*
Yes. You are right.