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--- In IBM_T2X_LCD@yahoogroups.com, "fluppeteer" <yahoo@...> wrote:
\n>
\n> --- In IBM_T2X_LCD@yahoogroups.com, "educationk12" <educationk12@>
\n> wrote:
\n> >
\n> > I'm buying one of these when they come out. I wonder if I could mod it
\n> > to go into my toshiba U105 which has a 7.1" WXGA screen (204ppi). The
\n> > Toshiba screen does spanning and has settings that go from UXGA to
\n> > 1920x1440 to QXGA. It could be vaporware though, but I imagine there
\n> > is a market for the auto industry. People could then say they have HD
\n> > headrests and such.
\n> >
\n>
\nhttp://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/sanyo-develops-smallest-hd-display-71-inches-208080.php
\n>
\n> This *is* a nice panel, but I don't know how well they'll be
\n> able to market it (partly because "HD" includes the 1280x768
\n> that the U105 already has); there's a discussion on Tom's
\n> Hardware about reviving the Psion 5MX (possibly as a full PC),
\n> and while I was pushing for the use of the U105's screen (because
\n> it's small enough and pretty much all Windows apps are okay in
\n> 1280x768, whereas some don't cope in the 1024x640 of the UX180P),
\n> even *I* was joking when I suggested this as a replacement...
\n> (I'd love one, but I know overkill when I see it, at least for
\n> something that other people might want to buy.)
\n>
\n> If the public really know the difference between 1080 and 720
\n> HD resolutions, it might take off. ISTR they're partly aiming
\n> this at HD video cameras, as a viewfinder. Which might bode
\n> well for people not recording HD at 1440x1080 any more. :-)
\n> Bear in mind that decoding video at 1080 resolution isn't an
\n> easy task for a portable device (although it's a bit easier
\n> if you've got a not-so-portable car battery to run off,
\n> obviously) - even the chip that 3Dlabs has just announced
\n> can only do 720p from h.264, and AFAIK no current PMP does
\n> high def.
\n>
\n> Laptops are another matter, but a WUXGA desktop in that size
\n> isn't going to appeal to the people who've just decided that
\n> 25.5" is the new ideal size for WUXGA (there's a new high gamut
\n> panel that's just been announced), and apparently Dell have
\n> just announced a 27" WUXGA panel. At least it'd make a better
\n> television than a 15.4" version, but I know which I'd rather
\n> have on my desk.
\n>
\n> Regarding sticking it in the Libretto - it *might* work, but
\n> I think you'll be lucky. You'd have to look at the details
\n> of the (presumably) LVDS output for the Libretto's video
\n> chip, and see whether it can be persuaded to do this. Just
\n> because it can do it over an analogue output doesn't mean
\n> it can drive an equivalent LVDS signal to a flat panel. If
\n> we were all using DisplayPort it might be easier to do the
\n> swap, but for now I'm given to believe that switching panels
\n> on a laptop is a bit of a black art.
\n>
\n> But, never having done it personally, I could be overstating
\n> the problem.
\n>
\n> --
\n> Fluppeteer
\n>