The DSM LCD (like) you've never seen

This is episode 1 of 3.
Episode 2: • LCD Explained (and more)
Episode 3: • Strange Color LCD's
Check the album LCD here:
Bandcamp: posy.bandcamp.com/album/lcd
Spotify: linkspotify:album:4SOUwRczibi7WGcjhQMhPF
Apple Music: music.apple.com/nl/album/lcd/...
NO LOUDNESS WAR: Turn off auto volume and turn up the playback volume!
Please note: Footage is copyrighted
Useful links:
George Heilmeier in action (at 21:09): • Liquid Crystal Display...
spectrum.ieee.org/static/time...
www.vintagecalculators.com/htm...
www.crazywatches.pl/lcd,1
Special thanks to Martijn van der Veur (misspelled in video) for letting me film his watch, and also hinting the DSM LCD calculator.
Also thanks to Nigel from vintagecalculators.com for his helpful response and very informative website.

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my eyes are so bad i never noticed. maybe i'll give it a try

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Your commentary is very well written and comprehensible, but somehow it manages to make this technology seem even more like some kind of magic.

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Stunning video! I could imagine the pulsing effect comes from the LCD being driven with a biased squarewave, basicly flipping the electrical polarity to avoid permanent polarization of the liquid crystal.

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Thank you for thi excellent video! I've always wondered how the DSM LC displays work and until recently never seen in a video. But this just blew my mind! By the way, there is (or has been) a similar display made in recent years - Sharp Memory LCD, especially the PNLC type. The technology is different but a similar look is achieved - looks like a white (diffused) pixel on mirror background. All that without polarizers!

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Cool, thanks for the info :) Found a video of it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pIKvd4qimNiXn5Y

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6:52 I would unironically use this as a wallpaper on my computer. This looked fantastic, thanks for providing this much information in such a lovely made video (or film?) I was unironically dumbfounded when you said "45 years old..." and you started cutting it 😂😂😂😂😂😂

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[@chealej]

Congratulations on a splendidly produced video & soundtrack! Heartening to find others who appreciate this particular display tech cul-de-sac. Having a - slightly too large - collection of calculators that use COS/DSM displays I was a little distressed to see the EL-808 getting the Dremel treatment - even if it is a fairly common model... Another COS calculator model, the sharp EL-805 was notable for not only being the first pocket LCD calculator, but also for the extended glass substrate of the LCD being a circuit board on which all the ICs were mounted. This was a kind of chip-on glass-technology decades ahead of its time. Slightly bizarrely it was also manufactured by Elektronika in the USSR as the Б3-04 - presumably under license from Sharp. Please do not Dremel any of these - they are RARE! :) I see others have noted the sadly short lived Sharp PNLC LCD..- here are a couple more links. Sharp also produced a larger version used on the back of the 6228 cell phone sold only in Japan - it is even rarer than EL805s... kzbin.info/www/bejne/m3LSdGtnbbKrr5Y kzbin.info/www/bejne/pHjMioinlLWXarc

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Thanks, I didn't know that the best way to create psychedelic images is to film really close an old calculator. "You've been staring at a calculator screen for almost 4 minutes now" yeah I know and I want an hour video of this now

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love the music in this, as well as the documentary itself! great work!!

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idk why i watched 12 minutes about LCD display, but I loved every second of it, the cinematography, the voice, worth it.

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