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Title: Wall of monitors
Post by: tommy on April 13, 2005, 11:14:33 pm

I wanted to use my arcade machine guts and many monitors to make one big screen out of 10 screens, i would have to find some screens that would look seamless though, so the monitors i have wouldnt work well.

How would i make them all do there part in displaying the image partially on each to form one.

Title: Re: Wall of monitors
Post by: Ken Layton on April 14, 2005, 12:08:56 am

Wells-Gardner makes a special "video wall" monitor and a special interface board to connect certain numbers of these monitors together into a video wall setup. Contact Wells-Gardner for more information.

Title: Re: Wall of monitors
Post by: tommy on April 14, 2005, 10:46:06 am

Quote from: Ken Layton on April 14, 2005, 12:08:56 am

Wells-Gardner makes a special "video wall" monitor and a special interface board to connect certain numbers of these monitors together into a video wall setup. Contact Wells-Gardner for more information.

Thanks Ken , i wasnt sure if this was thought of yet , but then again what hasnt.

Title: Re: Wall of monitors
Post by: Ken Layton on April 14, 2005, 10:57:10 am

Several other monitor manufacturers (like Kortek) also make a similar setup.

Title: Re: Wall of monitors
Post by: AmericanDemon on April 14, 2005, 05:22:14 pm

Hey Tommy, keep us updated on what you find out.  That would be really cool.

Title: Re: Wall of monitors
Post by: ChadTower on April 14, 2005, 05:27:18 pm

Heat heat heat heat heat.

Title: Re: Wall of monitors
Post by: paigeoliver on April 15, 2005, 04:24:37 am

You probably won't like the prices, it will be cheaper just to buy a projector.

Title: Re: Wall of monitors
Post by: RandyT on April 17, 2005, 04:24:47 pm

....And, you'll need 12 monitors to get the proper aspect ration (4:3)


Paige is right.  Just the controller required to carve up an image and put it out to the video wall will cost more than a very nice DLP projector.

RandtyT

Title: Re: Wall of monitors
Post by: ericball on April 17, 2005, 07:35:38 pm

Quote from: RandyT on April 17, 2005, 04:24:47 pm

....And, you'll need 12 monitors to get the proper aspect ration (4:3)

Actually, no.  You need to use the same number of monitors in both directions, e.g. 4, 9, 16, 25... because the tubes themselves are the correct aspect ratio.