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We are replacing old 15" lcd's at work with 19" ones, what to do with the old ones?

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Czar

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We are replacing all the old 15" we have, mostly dells few other brands though like ibm, sanyo and one which I cant see from my desk. We usualy give these out to employes along with old computers but giving these away seems such a waste. Any creative uses for them?

most I can think of is some network or server monitor programs which I could then hang up on the wall someplace... just to look good 😛
 
Set up a PC with a ton of dual head PCI cards and run a wall of them. Or send one to me. Havn't had the pleasure of owning an LCD yet.
 
Originally posted by: TwiceOver
Set up a PC with a ton of dual head PCI cards and run a wall of them. Or send one to me. Havn't had the pleasure of owning an LCD yet.
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LCD Array! Make a window in the basement.
 
heh if you give them out i will take a few and pay for shipping! and a little extra for your "trouble"
 
You can take the bases off (if they're designed that way) and put them up on the walls in your company's lobby looping a series of promo's and prduct demonstrations. Or hell if you have a waiting area have them running cable TV like CNN or whatever. Or you could have your employee's hang them on their walls or cubicles cycling pictures of scenery or family or company information broadcasts.
 
Why would it be a waste to give them away if that's the usual policy?

I'm sure schools or other organizations would love to have them, but unless you need them for terminals, XGA is really too small a resolution for office work excel, etc. It is however perfecty great for web surfing and the like.

The bump up to SXGA made a significant difference for me to doing my job without spending half my time scrolling.
 
apart from all the ones who want one I kinda like the charity thing, we have given a few computers to charity before, but lately they have become quite picky about what they want. Few weeks ago some charity called and asked if we had any spare computers we checked, found two that we could give, but they found the specs kinda low so they just said now. I mean a dell P3 450mhz is kinda old but still very useful for basic every day usage.
 
Originally posted by: jjzelinski
You can take the bases off (if they're designed that way) and put them up on the walls in your company's lobby looping a series of promo's and prduct demonstrations. Or hell if you have a waiting area have them running cable TV like CNN or whatever. Or you could have your employee's hang them on their walls or cubicles cycling pictures of scenery or family or company information broadcasts.
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is it possible to get a tv plain tv tuner that outputs to normal vga or dvi connectors?
 
Originally posted by: Czar
apart from all the ones who want one I kinda like the charity thing, we have given a few computers to charity before, but lately they have become quite picky about what they want. Few weeks ago some charity called and asked if we had any spare computers we checked, found two that we could give, but they found the specs kinda low so they just said now. I mean a dell P3 450mhz is kinda old but still very useful for basic every day usage.
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damn! A p3 450 will do email and pr0n, wth? People at goodwill want to play doom 3?
 
Originally posted by: Czar
Originally posted by: jjzelinski
You can take the bases off (if they're designed that way) and put them up on the walls in your company's lobby looping a series of promo's and prduct demonstrations. Or hell if you have a waiting area have them running cable TV like CNN or whatever. Or you could have your employee's hang them on their walls or cubicles cycling pictures of scenery or family or company information broadcasts.
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is it possible to get a tv plain tv tuner that outputs to normal vga or dvi connectors?
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Well I have no clue 🙂 The best I can think of that I know will work is to get a DVI or VGA splitter to send feeds to the monitors simultaneously if spare PC's are hard to come by (and not to mention TV tuner's for cable broadcasts.) You would probably have to figure out how to implement a couple of signal amplifiers since DVI doesn't have a great distance spec. I tell you what would be cool is to figure out how to use your electrical wall sockets to conduct a video signal (that's already easy to do with COMM) and provide adapters for each display. That way you don't need to chew up company bandwidth. I think that just teetered off the edge of practicality though... so back on topic 🙂

oh you edited... well as long as you have a PC, otherwise I dunno. I'd be surprised if there wasn't one though.
 
is it possible to get a tv plain tv tuner that outputs to normal vga or dvi connectors?
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Most TV tuners will - however you'd need some sort of computer running the software on it. Basicly the LCD panel would be acting as the computer's monitor and you just run Dscaler or whatever TV tuner software at full screen.

I like the company promo idea - should be able to pick up some dual-head video cards for fairly cheap. I'm not sure how you'd do multiple things on different monitors though - maybe powerpoint presentations with multiple copies of powerpoint running on each monitor?

Or you could sell em to employees. Whenever we get extra equipment here, they put out a big list of stuff that employees can submit bids on.

Might check out smarthome.com - they may have a video over power line solution, they carry a ton of video distribution equipment.
 
donate to an school or something.

of course if you are giving any out i could use one for my pops'. let me know
 
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