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  1. 1st December 2014, 01:44 PM #1
    perthnovice
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    Default old laptop screens

    I have several old laptop screens hp Compaq and similar and I wanted to hook them all up to a dvd player does anyone know how to go about this?

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    Do you mean you still have the laptops, or just the creens out of their lids?
    Connecting several laptops to a DVD player is possible (not necessarily cheap though). because it requires a video splitter/repeater.
    Connecting just the screens is a much more complex undertaking! It would require designing backlight driver/power supplies, video drivers and data format conversion for each.
    Sorry.
    The simple solution would be to buy cheap VIDEO display screens with video input - rather than computer screens - and hook them up to a DVD player.
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    Joe's nailed it - using bits out of laptops like screens is usual too complicated and not worth it.
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