Ever heard of a USB monitor? No video card required!

[VirtualLarry]

http://www.staples.com/DoubleSight-(...ea=sku_pd_box2

Interesting little product. I wonder if you could use it to run WHS semi-headless, or add video to those pre-made WHS boxes with no video output?

 

[busydude]

http://www.staples.com/DoubleSight-(...ea=sku_pd_box2 Interesting little product. I wonder if you could use it to run WHS semi-headless, or add video to those pre-made WHS boxes with no video output?

There are a few of those in the market. I read a review in pcper few months back here.

Also, a review of an another model on cnet.

 

[NoQuarter]

I would like to see 3 of these in Eyefinity mode.

 

[sgrinavi]

You see 7" version of these on WOOT once in a while for $80ish. Might be fun, but I'll wait for the $40 version LOL

 

[Rubycon]

Remember what the bandwidth of USB 2.0 is?
Yeah it's fine for static images and SOME movement...

Beyond that it's going to be lag city!

USB to DB9/DVI dongles are the same. Very slow!

USB 3.0 may make these usable. To get something on the screen on a server without a video card it may work in a pinch. To say it's as good as a real multiple monitor solution is a pipe dream.

 

[PCTC2]

Most of these are use DisplayLink USB chipsets. eVGA's UV Plus and DoubleSight's USB Monitors are DisplayLink. There's some work getting it to work well in Linux (think open-source firmware Routers with USB ports having a local terminal with keyboard and mouse).

I have that monitor and I used to use it for Youtube and Pandora in the kitchen with a mini ITX computer. It played youtube (not fullscreen) fine.

 

[mxnerd]

According to DoubleSight website, this 1024x600 monitor supports 262k color, which should be 18 bits color.

How do you calculate the bandwidth requirement for these USB based monitor?

 

[PCTC2]

According to DoubleSight website, this 1024x600 monitor supports 262k color, which should be 18 bits color.

How do you calculate the bandwidth requirement for these USB based monitor?

Uncompressed, it should be quite trying of a USB 2.0 interface, but DisplayLink calculates the display on the CPU and compresses it, and then their chipset decompresses it. It should still be able to saturate a USB 2.0 interface with a movies and such, but static pictures or web pages should be no problem.