I confronted the Yamaha reps about several issues on Thursday, particularly the lousy, outdated LCD display, and they acted as if they had never heard of sunlight viewable displays. Ironically, then they talked about the added expense it would take to produce this type of display. When I showed them my $12 Timex watch with a sunlight viewable screen, they said the resolution was very low in the watch. Guess what Yamaha--the resolution in the keyboard's LCD display is also very low--not nearly as high as most inexpensive, sunlight viewable, full-color marine fathometers costing less than $150. Gee, would anyone paying $3,200 for a Tyros2 care if you added another $100, or even $200, for a high-contrast, high-resolution, sunlight-viewable display? I don't think so! The display on my boat's depth finder is 1024 X 768 pixels and you can see fish on the display from the other end of the boat.

Additionally, the Tyros2 LCD display seems to be significantly worse than the Tyros1 and PSR-3000 displays, which are also not what they should be by a long shot. There have been lots of reports about the display since this board hit the streets, and to date, none are glowing.

Cmon' Yamaha, get with the program.

Gary

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Travlin' Easy

[This message has been edited by travlin'easy (edited 11-12-2005).]