LCD screens?

[ChadTower]

I have a bunch of broken laptops here at work... the LCDs work perfectly on all of them, though.  I was wondering, how do LCDs relate to the refresh rate issue on a CRT?  Would it be possible to take a laptop LCD and wire it directly to a TV tuner?  How hard would it be to take an LCD and the power supply out of a laptop and interface it with a desktop's motherboard, say in a jukebox style setup?

Basically, I am trying to figure out the capabilities of a decent laptop LCD screen to see if they're worth recycling.  I'm talking about recent screens, pentium 800 vintage screens.

[mattv]

It's pretty much impossible ot interface a laptop LCD screen to anything but another lapyop of the same make and model.

Since they were never designed to be fed signals from anything but the laptop there is no control circutry on htem at all. all of the inteligence is in the laptop video circutry.

It is possible to buy an interface board to allow these screens to take a plain old VGA signal but they cost several hundred dollars so its probably cheaper to buy a brand new 15" lcd screen.

[ChadTower]

Yeah, that's what my research turned up too.  It's a shame.

[StephenH]

Most Laptop LCDs use properitery interfaces  

Because of this, you would need both a TV to RGB converter and tuner, possibly a scan converter (as most TVs output 15Khz), and then a converter that converts the analog signal into the laptops properitery digital protocol.  This would most likely be expensive, and complex wiring, if such devices are even available.

[MnMCaputo]

Hey, this is something I found while when i was trying to use my old laptop screen.   http://store.earthlcd.com/s.nl/c.318770/sc.14/category.99/it.A/id.692/.f

for some reason, the ".f" at the end isnt in the hyperlink, going to have to cut and paste it  

Fixed the link for you. --Tom61