Don't you just love it when one kind of display tries to act like another?

Textbook bad/good skeumorphism. The video is harder to read than either a real Solari board or a video display that didn't try to look like one, but the audio works well as a signal that the display is changing.

Nothing better than an old analog technology emulated by new digital system. The Solari board’s advantage was that the clacking sound alerted passengers of every update. Quiet monitors don’t do that. I would make them all black like the actual solar board and emulated every single movement of the flap just like good old times.

Sad to see the old Split Flap display be replaced by digital.

The real story is the very helpful employee answering countless passenger questions 😅.

The computerised sound is quite obviously a 1-second-duration repeating midi.

This is what the new flipboard in Philly should've been

I kinda like this one! It’s not the normal solari board, but it’s good for a remake. I wish there was one like this at New York penn station

I love the good intention behind this. I wonder which company made it?

I think it's cool. Yeah, the original Solari boards and the "click click" were awesome, but there has to be progress and I like the way the evolution was handled.

I give them points for trying.

I think it's better than the one in New Haven Union Station, but definitely not as good as a real Solari board.

This just doesn't have the character of a real Solari.

I really hope the new board at 30th Street Station looks nothing like this. It's digital! You don't need simulated lines through the words and numbers that serve absolutely no purpose.

I guess this is progress. At least they kept the clicking noise and have animations of the letters turning.

are you serious? It's not a very good depiction of the original really- it has these really contrasty gradients to represent the flaps. All the other pictures of these solari boards, you can barely tell it's not a solid piece before it starts flapping. They should tone down the stripes and maybe speed up the flippy animation. How about making the character change to the new character instantly, and just keep playing the flip animation behind the letter/number. That way you get the classic flipping thing and you can have the noise, but you also don't have to wait for the animation to play to read the new value. The flipping animation isn't just for looks, anyway, it also catches your eye that a value was updated. If it didn't have the flipping, they'd need to blink or change color like other classic display boars do- like off track betting boards or stock "tickers".

Great( one , what kind of software are you using ?

I guess philly is only one of the remaining boards left?

scary solari

Why not just...use a real solari board? The things work JUST FINE. Appropriate technology, people!

Worst of both worlds innit?

Fail!

aw... just AWFUL... Solari should be ashamed for making this up.

Permitanme decir que ésto es una mierda pinchado en un palo por decirlo bonito. Si no van a utilizar la tecnología flip flap, hay maneras 10000 veces mejor de mostrar la información al usuario antes de hacer una imitación mala de una tecnología fabulosa

Of all the stupid, idiotic ways to digitize information: merely mimic the analog, with all its inherent limitations.

This looks hella useless

Horrible...

Especially when there are more than one flip board solutions out there that can even do motion video if you scale it up enough, this is an insult to design. They should tear down this garbage tomorrow and replace it with a REAL flip board because this is complete trash. I bet a woman made this decision.