Have an idea for Mini monitor....

[flymo001]

GREAT! well that's one of my Christmas prezzies sorted out!!.......just got to do the research for which one. On second thoughts.........why wait until December. darling you know those shelves you wanted puttung up...............................

John P

[BHawthorne]

There is a big selection at NewEgg:

http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCateg...l-Photo-Frames

Yes, but you need to be specific on what you choose. That Samsung is the first I've ever seen that doubles for a computer display. They don't regularly have a usb video driver interface hardware in them. We would have been using these things a loooong time ago if they all doubled as computer displays at that price.

[N242AM]

Plus, how will it affect system performance? Isn't off-loading video to the video card the reason for using a VGA/DVI cabled display? If we feed those units USB, isn't that placing all the work on the CPU?

[BHawthorne]

Probably not, but it probably will tax the USB bandwidth on that particular port out + whatever chip it's using for i/o. I'd suggest giving them their own usb cards as needed if you use multiple photo frames.

Panels and instruments need not be 3D graphic accelerated. One would think most of that is 2D based. Didn't one of those pics in the OP have an OSD showing FPS? Looks like it was doing 38 FPS. One wouldn't think fps would matter much on the instruments. On the other hand if it effects the FPS of the other external displays that actually show the sim environment, that's another story. I've seen no indication one way or the other though.

Would be nice to see an experiment of with it using a display and without and checking the task manager's CPU usage graphs.

[oal331]

Did you happen to see a 5"?

I didn't find 5" in the same brand, but as other friends wrote below, in the near feature more and more companies will offer the same functionality and we'll have more options.

I have to write once again, that PM's performance test, was below 150 so we have to make these test in real cockpit enviroment with network load and normal PCs

BTW, I made your photos visible.

Thanks, what i done wrong with jpg attachments?

Thanks

[dvincent]

Hello,

take a look at this:

http://www.avionicslcd.com/

They have them all.

[N242AM]

Yes, but the point of the post was "inexpensive" lcd displays.

Who wants to pay $628 for a 10.4" lcd display?

[BHawthorne]

Hello,

take a look at this:

http://www.avionicslcd.com/

They have them all.

You grossly miss the whole point. It's to get a cost effective solution.

In most cases, comparing to that website, you could retrofit a fully functional netbook into your panel for half their pricing. That brings up another side-subject. Anyone out there retrofitting in netbooks for their glass-cockpits in sims? For example the ASUS netbook at $170: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16834220586

The cool thing about photoframes is that not only do they have the video interface, but they have the usb -> video decoder built in. That means no hidden $50-100 cost for another video card. Although I think it might merit a $10 USB 2.0 card of it's own. Those worrying about CPU impact and have quad core machines could just set the affinity for the process to one of the cores not being used by the sim. Do we know yet if 2 or more of these can work at the same time independently of eachother? Once my student financial aid comes through in September I'll probably pick up 2 of these to experiment with.

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You can but buy 3.5" LCD for £10. and then buy the adapter to convert it to VGA for a £1....

Now that's cost effective!

[TobiBS]

You can but buy 3.5" LCD for £10. and then buy the adapter to convert it to VGA for a £1....

Now that's cost effective!

Do you have a supplier for that with those prices? Maybe some links?