Re: Laptop with reverse VGA

2012-02-21 Thread Jussi Peltola
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:45:02PM -0500, Jay Ashworth wrote: > Yeah; I knew (or was pretty sure) that it was down to the chip level at > this point, but as you say, for driving the price down, there's nothing > like the single-chip solution, and this is apparently just far enough > off the edge of

Re: Laptop with reverse VGA

2012-02-21 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Neil Harris" > High prices are more likely to do with the small market for such > devices, than to do with the cost of the underlying technology. Sure. Not being on the consumer part of the S-curve will kill you. > It isn't so much genlock, as accurate pix

Re: Laptop with reverse VGA

2012-02-21 Thread Neil Harris
On 21/02/12 14:48, Jay Ashworth wrote: - Original Message - From: "Jake Khuon" I think the form-factour is already there. I have a Motorola Atrix smartphone. It's available with a laptop-dock unit. This is essentially a USB hub and display. The display is connected by outputting from the

Re: Laptop with reverse VGA

2012-02-21 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Jake Khuon" > I think the form-factour is already there. I have a Motorola Atrix > smartphone. It's available with a laptop-dock unit. This is > essentially a USB hub and display. The display is connected by > outputting from the phone's HDMI port. The rest o

RE: Laptop with reverse VGA

2012-02-20 Thread Mario Eirea
, February 20, 2012 6:05 PM To: 'Jon Lewis'; 'Faisal Imtiaz' Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: Laptop with reverse VGA There are also these, work with anything with a USB port: http://www.blackbox.com/Store/Detail.aspx/USB-Laptop-Console-Crash-Cart-Adap ter/KVT100A You could ma

Re: Laptop with reverse VGA

2012-02-20 Thread Jake Khuon
On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 23:23 +0200, Jussi Peltola wrote: > The display would require a scaler/processor/ADC/TMDS receiver, which are > found in every standalone LCD. This stuff consumes multiple watts (it > becomes hot enough to cook itself in a few years after all) so it will > not appear in a lap

RE: Laptop with reverse VGA

2012-02-20 Thread Scott Berkman
, 2012 5:05 PM To: Faisal Imtiaz Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Laptop with reverse VGA On Mon, 20 Feb 2012, Faisal Imtiaz wrote: > Or if you can order one of these. Exactly what you are looking for !!! > http://store.earthlcd.com/LCD-Products/Portable-Monitors That does look like prett

Re: Laptop with reverse VGA

2012-02-20 Thread Jon Lewis
On Mon, 20 Feb 2012, Faisal Imtiaz wrote: Or if you can order one of these. Exactly what you are looking for !!! http://store.earthlcd.com/LCD-Products/Portable-Monitors That does look like pretty much exactly what I wanted...but a palm sized IP KVM for less than half the price seems much

Re: Laptop with reverse VGA

2012-02-20 Thread Faisal Imtiaz
Interesting thought. You know you can easily put together something like such... Some ideas for you:-- Screens: (these are mostly designed to be 2nd Screens on laptops). http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=lt1421&tag=googhydr-20&index=aps&hvadid=13474581570&ref=pd_sl_8j9d6nstmk_b <

Laptop with reverse VGA

2012-02-20 Thread Jussi Peltola
It practically requires more hardware than a separate IP KVM. Finding RS-232 in a laptop is already nearly impossible, so I doubt this will happen. The keyboard/mouse part *might* be possible in some cases where these devices have a usb interface somewhere in the middle. Still, you'd need cables t