On Wed, 12 May 2004 at 01:37:00, Boltar wrote:

Its just economics. Buy some cheap PC motherboard and bits with window$ thrown
in for a few hundred quid , buy or download some naff slideshow software (or
whatever) and in the bus it goes. From a technical point of view its certainly
way overkill but shoving in a bespoke DVD player or perhaps image display
system would cost far more even though the specs would be lower. Its like
cash machines , these days they're mostly windows PCs which even though have
to be a higher spec and are less reliable (and probably less secure) than the
old bespoke systems they replaced are probably cheaper. Which is all that
matters these days. Accountants run this country. Didn't you know?

I've not seen the screens on a Routemaster, only on some more modern
buses. But I've never seen one switched on yet - not that I could look
at it, even if it was, as I need to look out of the windows of a moving
vehicle. I have seen similar screens on buses in France, but not yet in
this country.
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