RE: I said I wouldn't...

["Phil Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>]

LCD screens don't suffer from burn in ... that's why they can be used for
video games safely. The backlights on LCD screens do have a finite life
though but I'm not sure what that is typically...

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pedro de Oliveira [mailto:oliveirp@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 21 October 2001 18:12
> To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] I said I wouldn't...
>
>
>  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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