Somebody spotted what they think is a LAN 9514 chip on the carrier board. So, assuming the display brings out the 9514 connections, it would have an Ethernet jack. If it just has some USB ports, a USB to Ethernet adapter would work.

On the whole, though, given the uses for which these displays are intended, I would think that an Ethernet interface is almost a given. Think remotely changing what is to be displayed.

“Does it have Ethernet connectivity built in?”

Hi Mark,
Ethernet is provided via the RJ45 connection of the display. The RPi gets a separate IP address.

The NEC version of the compute module will come with 16GB eMMC on board. The first displays will all provide FHD resolution. And yes compute modules will be available stand-alone (via NEC sales partners). Both CM and IO board /mezzanine board will come either fully integrated or as options for our displays.

+1

1″ bigger than Barney has… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyVP-Qm87p8

I too would like to see consumer grade tv with this option. To have a smart TV worthy of the name.

Oh god yes please! That would be so sweeeet.
I’m thinking instant Kodi here!

I agree, would made a great HMI in an industrial plant, or at home. ;)

HMI’s usually are bolted to big boxes to house the PC. I assume the adopter board they have made includes touch screen support. I noticed that it looks to have the RPi 1 IO port.

What, Hal, me pedaling from the Mountain View Caltrain station to the Computer History Museum for our Jams with a 98-inch display strapped on my back isn’t enough of a visual for you? OK, maybe it will be on a pair of bike wheels as on those kid trailers (I just happen to have one of those, it turns out). Oh, and there will be a battery big enough to power it all so I can have “FOLLOW ME TO THE RASPBERRY JAM!!!” and other (_PAID_) messaging obtrusively blinding drivers and pedestrians, even in broad daylight, almost as obnoxiously as those 50-million-candlepower e-billboards that have taken over the freeways in SillyCon Valley and the greater SF Bay area, as well as other metropolii around the country and world, no doubt.

I agree. My application – and I am terribly excited by the possibilities of RPi teaming up with NEC – would require a smaller display, about 15-inch to 18-inch, touch-sensitive, for industrial applications. At a cost that is magnitude less than fully integrated units available today. Possible?

“Let’s face it, it’s a Linux computer if you add keys / mouse.”

That’s exactly the attraction Phil. If you wander around public spaces you’ll often find small Linux computers attached to the rear of digital signage displays. My university has over a thousand of these, all with a RPi2B on the rear, each attached to a dedicated VLAN on the campus network.

This is a pain from a physical point of view: a standalone RPi needs packaging, mounting, cabling, power and security. Allowing the Compute Module to sit within the display solves these issues and makes NEC’s displays more attractive than those of their competitors.

Starting from the current CM1…it has 4GB of eMMC flash on the board. Therefore, one presumes that the CM3 will have eMMC flash on the board, 4GB of it for the standard CM3, 16GB for the special NEC “CM3-16”, and none at all on the CM3L.

So far as I’m concerned at this point, the real question with regards to the CM3 is: Will it be possible (and for how much?) to just buy a CM3-16? Not that I’m necessarily going to do so, but knowing whether or not one can is of interest.

The NEC version of the compute module will come with 16GB eMMC on board. The displays (40″, 48″ and 55″) will all provide Full HD resolution and output native resolution.

Looking at the pictures, it seems the CM is plugged into an adaptor board that then plugs into the monitor. So I guess they could make an adaptor board that takes a different SBC (Single Board Computer).

I would guess that the adaptor for the CM is the real news and that they will be the only ones making them. So unless they make one for your favourite SBC then you’ll be using a CM. Sounds a good solution to me.

They have a Reduced Interface Structure Computing (RISC ;) board inside the display to provide just the desired interfaces they need, rather than an entire CMIO board, which is primarily for hardware developers, as you may recall. Also, in the NEC announcement, they noted that they had used Element-14’s custom design service for development of the CM3-16GB and the CMIO board in the displays, AIUI.

“Does this mean just that the CM is an optional addition to a monitor, or does it mean that the CMIO board is an optional part of the monitor?”

The compute modules will be available stand-alone. Both CM and IO board /mezzanine board will come either fully integrated or as options for our displays. You can get a version with a compute module integrated from the beginning or you can upgrade the displays at a later stage, as we want to keep the modular approach. It’ll be also possible to integrate the “Standard” Compute Module or the “NEC version” which comes with 16GB eMMC on board.

The CM will be an optional part. You also need a customized IO board to connect the CM. There will also me models that come with IO board and CM pre-installed.

Have you read the post you’re responding to carefully?

End of the year.

Carrier board expose what the designer wants to expose. For an application like this, I would expect an internal connection of the HDMI (to the rest of the monitor), a set of USB ports (2 or 3 of them) and, most likely–given the intended uses–an Rj-45 jack for wired Ethernet. A Wifi and *maybe* a BT concetion is possible. The WiFi for the intended use as a commercial display and BT in case someone needs to walk up to the display with a keyboard and make changes. I can’t, off hand, think of what use the typical Pi GPIO pins would be useful for in an display like this.