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Cheap, Oddball, 10" LCD monitor for $120 (modified 0 times) piperpacer Profile Ran across this cheap 10" monitor. It uses a proprietary video card in which power for the LCD is drawn directly from the video card. Could be an interesting addition to a mini-itx project. http://www.softwareandstuff.com/h_mon_unisys105lcd.html The vendor doesn't have a steller resellerrating rating. http://www.resellerratings.com/seller1821.html However, when my daughter needed a cheap monitor I sent her directly to their store. They treated her well and she got a real bargain on a used/refurb monitor. This might be a deal for those in the San Jose area. Too bad I live in Philly. Not! The Eagles beat the crap out of the 49ers. 11-26-2002 10:50:28

RE:Cheap, Oddball, 10 (modified 0 times) NormConquest Profile | Email Yeah, Eagles won. But it cost them an arm and a leg... 11-26-2002 18:21:07

RE:Cheap, Oddball, 10 (modified 0 times) haiqu Profile I checked these out when they first hit eBay. They're junk and I wouldn't pay more than $20.00 for one. - VGA only (640 x 480) - Latest drivers available seem to be Win95 Unless you actually _enjoy_ writing video drivers for undocumented hardware, give them a wide berth. 12-22-2002 00:26:25

RE:Cheap, Oddball, 10 (modified 0 times) GWIZAH Profile | Email Actually, card is plug n' play on win98se and above... Still, $120 is a bit too rich for my tastes 01-02-2003 21:38:06

RE:Cheap, Oddball, 10 (modified 0 times) Rockhammer Profile | Email I took a chance on one of these. Just got it in today and so far I'm impressed. Windows 2000 recognized the vid card and installed the driver without a hitch. My monitor was in generally good condition with only a bit tape adhesive on the base that was easily cleaned off. At first inspection it appears to have three dead pixels. Unfortunately two of them are side-by-side. It is a TFT active matrix LCD with a standard mode of 800x600. Haven't tried any game serious games or movies on it yet, but Microsoft 3D pinball played fine with no ghosting. Viewing angle is a bit restrictive...like LCDs from several years ago. I'll post some pics and specs on my website in a day or two. 01-28-2003 17:37:41

RE:Cheap, Oddball, 10 (modified 0 times) reldridg Profile Have you given the LCD anymore of a workout ? How is the ghosting? have you tried any video on it to see how it handles that? Thanks, Reldridg 02-09-2003 11:58:19

RE:Cheap, Oddball, 10 (modified 0 times) Rockhammer Profile | Email Some pics and the start of a write-up are here: http://www.bunkermentality.net/ The Chips and Technologies video card has a nice crisp output on the 10.4 inch display. It also supports twin head mode with a second VGA monitor attached to the standard VGA port. It only has 2 megs on board though, so DVD playback is not practical/possible. It does fine with all VCDs and most DIVX videos. Ghosting is typical for a 4+ year old TFT display (moderate, but watchable). I did manage to locate a PDF file of the users guide on this thing if anyone is interested I'll host it on my website. 02-10-2003 21:56:11

RE:Cheap, Oddball, 10 (modified 0 times) Rockhammer Profile | Email By request, I've posted the users manual to the little Unisys / Keycorp 10.4-inch LCD monitor and video card on my website. You can find it here: http://www.bunkermentality.net 04-09-2003 18:41:17

RE:Cheap, Oddball, 10 (modified 0 times) Kludgemeister Profile Hey, they're down to $99.95 as of today (12 April). Rockhammer, thanks for posting the manual. The TAS episode is a nice touch. Kludgemeister 04-12-2003 16:30:49

RE:Cheap, Oddball, 10 (modified 0 times) BigDog Profile | Email Anyone try getting this display to work with a standard VGA card instead of the 4mb card that it comes with? Wouldn't the signels on the line be the same as standard VGA 04-18-2003 20:00:21

RE:Cheap, Oddball, 10 (modified 0 times) Lincoln_man Profile BigDog The card has to supply 5 volts and HV backlight to the display as the ad says you DONT need a power supply. 04-19-2003 05:19:05

RE:Cheap, Oddball, 10 (modified 0 times) Rockhammer Profile | Email Yeah, it's non-standard all-the-way. On the plus side, they've recently dropped the price to $79. BTW, if anyone has been trying to access my website to get the manual, just keep trying. The host has been down but should be back up in a couple of hours. 04-19-2003 16:11:27

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