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    Re: Have an idea for Mini monitor....

    Quote Originally Posted by Alex Jay View Post
    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!
    Where?

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    Re: Have an idea for Mini monitor....

    Whats the prize for the links....Have I dropped myself into one of these gold-dust situations lol, I am just an ordinary surfer of the net, I am sure you have come across them or have you just not looked properly?

    Might have fun with this one lol!
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    Re: Have an idea for Mini monitor....

    Not one of you even said please!

    Where's the manners theses days lol
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    Re: Have an idea for Mini monitor....

    Quote Originally Posted by Alex Jay View Post
    I am sure you have come across them or have you just not looked properly?
    Well I have seen several display types and styles, but not for the prices you mentioned, especially not if you want to buy a single one.


    Quote Originally Posted by Alex Jay View Post
    Not one of you even said please!
    Where's the manners theses days lol
    Well you are right, sorry for my impoliteness and again: Can you please supply us a link to cheap displays to be connected to VGA or nowadays DVI?

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    Re: Have an idea for Mini monitor....

    That's ok TobiBS

    Expecting to get a link without a please or thanks doesn't work with me

    Politeness gets you every where, I just can't stand rude people....sorry!

    Anyway.....

    I Bought a mini 3.5" for my GPS.

    It cost me £10 plus delivery!

    http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...#ht_2186wt_904

    You just need to buy a converter lead to covert the signal into vga!

    Just search ebay, they are not hard to find!

    A thank you would be nice!
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    Re: Have an idea for Mini monitor....

    It looks more like around $35 for the 3.5". Then add in shipping and whatever the vga converter costs. That begins pushing outside the realm of usefulness if I was to do individual gauges with. It's cheaper just to do a single big LCD. Only reason why I'd be interested in a 3.5" or 5" would be to piece in oddly placed instruments that wouldn't fit within the main large LCD. However the 7, 8 and 10.2 photo frames are still looking to be the best bang for the buck because they have no need for a video card to run them.

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    Re: Have an idea for Mini monitor....

    Quote Originally Posted by Alex Jay View Post
    That's ok TobiBS

    Expecting to get a link without a please or thanks doesn't work with me

    Politeness gets you every where, I just can't stand rude people....sorry!

    Anyway.....
    I don't want to be rude and it might also be a reason that I am not speaking english as my mother tongue.

    Quote Originally Posted by BHawthorne View Post
    It looks more like around $35 for the 3.5". Then add in shipping and whatever the vga converter costs.
    Well he said 10 Pounds Sterling, not US-Dollars, but for 35US-Dollars shipping is already included. A VGA adaptor is not that expensive, most video cards are capable of providing it already.

    Quote Originally Posted by BHawthorne View Post
    That begins pushing outside the realm of usefulness if I was to do individual gauges with. It's cheaper just to do a single big LCD. Only reason why I'd be interested in a 3.5" or 5" would be to piece in oddly placed instruments that wouldn't fit within the main large LCD. However the 7, 8 and 10.2 photo frames are still looking to be the best bang for the buck because they have no need for a video card to run them.
    I think another reason is more important to opt for the photo frame, it is sharpness of the picture or whatever you would like to call it. We have S-Video MCDUs running and due to the video standard the picture is not sharp, because antialiasing on the computer is done for a pixel to pixel correct display, not for the S-Video resizing that is done via the video card. The results are not as good as using a digital or even a normal VGA-connection.

    EDIT: One simple example are the boxes when an entry is expected, they do not have the same linewidth all around the box, because of the resizing, it needs a lot of adjustment to work and it is still not perfect at my point of view.

    I guess the photo frames don't have this problem, the connection should be digital and therefore at least for text it should look much better, but I have no comparison right now and will see if one of this photo frames finds it way to me.

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    Re: Have an idea for Mini monitor....

    Quote Originally Posted by TobiBS View Post
    I think another reason is more important to opt for the photo frame, it is sharpness of the picture or whatever you would like to call it. We have S-Video MCDUs running and due to the video standard the picture is not sharp, because antialiasing on the computer is done for a pixel to pixel correct display, not for the S-Video resizing that is done via the video card. The results are not as good as using a digital or even a normal VGA-connection.
    It's not so much the analog s-video to vga conversion that is the issue as much as the 3.5" screen will have a really unusable resolution. The ppi for it makes it not worth doing. S-video will push at best an NTSC signal of 720x480, but that screen is most likely only 360x120, which isn't enough resolution to be of any use as a gauge or instrument.

    In my previous post it showed the resolutions that the screens did and all were very good ppi for their size. Plus, like you mention, the input is a digital signal, so it's as sharp a picture as possible.

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    Re: Have an idea for Mini monitor....

    Sorry to bump an old thread but...

    I managed to pick up two of these in ASDA for £25 each.

    Got home, plugged in, disappointment started.

    Flaws:
    1. Can't use more than one at once
    2. Can't use on x64 systems
    3. the XP driver contains a trojan

    Pros:
    1. Its a clear display.

    I should of just bought the one, seems weird that it can't support both.

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    Re: Have an idea for Mini monitor....

    I just bought an open-box SPF-107H-2 from Amazon warehouse for $87.99 and free shipping. that's the 10- incher.

    I plan to user it as my lower monitor. I'll let everyone know how it works.

    Warren.

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