Singapore subway (mrt) information display types

(sgtrains.com)

32 points | by gregorvand 3 days ago

4 comments

  • chanux 1 hour ago
    I preferred the old style route display (DRMD panels, apparently) over the LCD displays.

    Main reason: The most important info was always on display.

    Also loved it when the new route map depicted the circle line as a circle [1].

    [1] https://blog.sgtrains.com/2020/06/system-maps-over-the-years...

  • landgenoot 3 hours ago
    Why are plasma displays being used? I would expect they would burn in rapidly.
    • ValentineC 3 hours ago
      Now I'm really curious if they're actually plasma.

      Many of the stations were built long after LCDs became the norm (the first parts of the Thomson-East Coast Line [1] only opened in 2021), so it's likely mislabelling on the website's part.

      [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomson%E2%80%93East_Coast_Lin...

      • bobthepanda 2 hours ago
        it also could be one of those things where in this specific context or dialect of English, plasma was generalized away from the term strictly being a technology to a generic term for that general shape and form factor.

        after all none of us have used floppies to save for over a decade or two at this point.

  • ranger_danger 3 hours ago
    Stuck in an infinite captcha loop :/