Display In Action

The new display used in the Ultra Bay is a big step up from the standard VFD used in the Soundgraph VFD. It has a blue backlight and can display any font shape and size. I turned the brightness up all the way so that all options can be seen. Let's take a closer look at the information the Ultra Bay can display.


The left of the display has an animated "pie" also found in car stereos. The different pie pieces light up in succession giving the illusion of a turning disk. Right below that animation are two labels which light up for repeat and shuffle. Just under that you will find tags for Alarm, recording volume and time. These light up when one of these functions is active.

To the right of the display are a few more labels which can light up. The top part actually lets you know of the speaker configuration used. It can display any usual analog setup. The tags below light up corresponding to the type of input source used.




The top of the iMON Ultra Bay lists all the information displayed at the moment. Depending on the currently displayed data, the corresponding tag lights up. The bottom is reserved for the type of video and audio currently playing. Note that there are two "WMA" tags. The Ultra Bay uses a combination of two tags to display the compression type and audio type of a video file and then a separate tag if only audio is played.


Once all the software is installed, the first item displayed is a clock. It takes the settings from Windows and displays the time in the format set in the iMON Manager software. It already shows the type of fonts the display is capable of.


The standard font used, is Tahoma, 10pt high. It is quite easy to change the font to any Windows font installed on your PC. I selected Arial, increased the size to 32, added bold & italic. Upon hitting 'Apply' the display immediately displayed the changes. This shows the true potential of the new type of screen used in the Ultra Bay. It is also capable of displaying any different language like Russian or Greek.


The display has a good response time, much faster than the iMON VFD. There was no notable ghosting in the Audio plug-in. The fading is due to the exposure time of the Canon 400D.