These Displays - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: chris36202
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: July 03, 2015, 12:28:23 am
content: These displays look like bullshit to me. What's your guys take on ithttp://www.slidenjoy.com/

author: Melt-O-Tronic
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 03, 2015, 12:31:51 am
content: Looks like a fairly crude prototype of something very workable. But also very heavy and probably a narrow niche market.

author: chris36202
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: July 03, 2015, 12:35:03 am
content: And it's also powered by usb. so the refresh rate is going to be really slow compared to the on board video card

author: NiHaoMike
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 03, 2015, 05:22:00 am
content: I thought about building a simple mount to attach tablets to the side of a laptop screen. But that was right as I graduated from college and never found much of a use case afterwards.Nowadays, Nvidia's NVENC can encode video for transmission over a wireless (802.11n) link so well that you could even game over it. USB would be a piece of cake in comparison. Additionally, because the NVENC is a separate functional block, the impact on graphics performance is only a few percent.

author: Richard Crowley
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 03, 2015, 05:35:00 am
content: USB-powered portable LCD screens have been around for years. I have one which I like a lot. Where have you guys been? It's 2015.Nothing remarkable about this video except the novel mechanical packaging. What's the big deal?I have even watched movies on my USB-powered LCD screen and I can't see any difference from the built-in display on any of my notebook computers.I don't do high-frame-rate gaming, so perhaps that is where USB screens can't keep up? But I've never seen any symptoms in normal, mature use-cases.

author: BradC
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 03, 2015, 06:55:00 am
content: These days laptops with multi-head outputs are common enough and as Richard says, USB displays have been around for _years_.Seems like another case of someone re-inventing heatshrink.

author: Richard Crowley
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 03, 2015, 07:36:33 am
content: Every day, I use four, high-resolution (1920x1080), USB-connected LCD screens on my laptop in my office. Five, when you include the built-in screen.

author: Mechanical Menace
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 03, 2015, 09:45:40 am
content: Quote from: Richard Crowley on July 03, 2015, 05:35:00 amIt's latencies that holds back monitors and connection types for certain types of gaming at certain skill levels more than bandwidth. Some peoples performance can even be measurably effected by the slight delay added using DVI/HDMI instead of analogue, and they'll even insist on still using CRTs in competitions to try and reduce the lag to a minimum. The average gamer, damn even the way above average gamer would never notice though.

author: senso
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 03, 2015, 11:29:01 am
content: There is this:http://emerythacks.blogspot.pt/2013/04/connecting-ipad-retina-lcd-to-pc.htmlAnother iteration:http://dp2retina.rozsnyo.com/I saw somewhere a guy that 3d printed some snap clips and could clip the display to his laptop bezel, I would do that if my laptop had a DisplayPort output..Its smallish, portable and with a well designed display "case" it can have a tilting bale, and clips so you can hang it next to your lcd.Edit:The clipping to the laptopt bezel:http://hackaday.com/2014/06/07/customized-ipad-lcd-screen-clips-onto-macbook-as-a-slick-second-screen/