Which device to tuck behind a wall mounted display?

[Joshua05]

I'm would like to spice up our office a little bit by throwing some of the unused lcd monitors up on the wall, but I'm not quite sure how to get content to them. I have 6 monitors to put up, with the purpose of showing a different website on each one.

I've looked at some of the tiny pc's and all of them seem to have only one vga/dvi out. So, at this point, it's looking like 1 mini-pc for each one. I've looked at Apple TV, but it doesn't seem to have a web browser.

There's gotta be a cheaper way to do this -- any ideas?

 

[Zap]

You can do one PC with enough video outs for all systems, and run in-wall cabling to the systems.

 

[alfa147x]

Go the Apple Tv route and install aTV flash on it.
http://firecore.com/atvflash-black

You get a whole bunch of stuff like a web browser, plex, XBMC, and they are good about updating.
It's a pretty easy install.

Or you can go with Zap's method

 

[Joshua05]

You can do one PC with enough video outs for all systems, and run in-wall cabling to the systems.

Is this more cost effective than 6 apple tv's $600 + $150 peripherals?

- Box, psu, mobo, cpu, 2 graphic cards, 6 long dvi cables, hard drive, memory

From a birds eye view, that looks to be about $800-1000 if I build all of it. Ordering a system with these specs would likely cost more wouldn't it?

 

[Joshua05]

Go the Apple Tv route and install aTV flash on it.
http://firecore.com/atvflash-black

You get a whole bunch of stuff like a web browser, plex, XBMC, and they are good about updating.
It's a pretty easy install.

Or you can go with Zap's method

Looks like the product is still in beta... are you talking about downloading the beta?

 

[alfa147x]

Looks like the product is still in beta... are you talking about downloading the beta?

yes

 

[Emulex]

crappy resistive android tablet with root and hdmi out 😉

$50 for a crappy froyo resistive tablet will go alot farther than ATV which is locked down.

 

[Joshua05]

crappy resistive android tablet with root and hdmi out 😉

$50 for a crappy froyo resistive tablet will go alot farther than ATV which is locked down.

True that -- At this point I'm leaning mostly toward the Logitech Revue (Google TV box), which has Chrome built in. $100 each seems a good price point.