RE: I said I wouldn't...

[Pedro de Oliveira <oliveirp@xxxxxxx>]

I was actually thinking of hooking up a monitor cable to the butchered LCD
display through a second graphics card to display pictures on my wall.  The
images would be on a slide show type of effect so as not to burn the panel.
I just wondered what the pin assignments would be in terms of power and
picture...

I take your point about butchering a newish laptop but we have some laptops
which the hard drive doesn't work and I could probably buy them for next to
nothing if I could find a use for them...

Pedro
thinking big with small pockets  ;)


-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Harris
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Sent: 21/10/01 18:04
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] I said I wouldn't...

A laptop LCD panel wouldn't be able to take any form of video signal
directly anyway ... you'd have to have the PC playing the DVD to be able
to
do that or using some sort of TV grabber. None of the older laptops have
the
grunt to be able to do that and it seems a shame to butcher a laptop
that is
powerfull (and hence new) enough...

....personally I think it's one of those ideas that should have been shot
at
inception!

There isn't a miraculous and cheap shortcut to getting a big TV image on
your wall or whatever. Video projectors are different beasts to data
projectors even though they might both seem to be just an 800x600 panel
and
a bulb. Data projectors almost always completely screw up colour
rendition
whereas any projector with any video intentions should have had far more
effort spent on making sure the colour rendition is correct. It doesn't
really matter if a powerpoint presentation in a room lit with
flourescent
lights and being shown to a bunch of suits is slightly off colour but
video
is far more noticeable...

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pedro de Oliveira [mailto:oliveirp@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 21 October 2001 17:45
> To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] I said I wouldn't...
>
>
> Some time back (on this topic) someone mentioned taking the LCD
> display from
> a laptop and using it as a picture.  How would you do this in terms of
> connectors and power?
>
> Cheers
> Pedro de Oliveira
>
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