> > It's not possible without some fancy hardware in the switch box: if > you're going with your six-monitor setup and a simple A-B-C switch, > each monitor needs to be able to handle a refresh rate of at least > 360Hz to avoid flicker (I don't know of any CRT that can do more than > 160Hz; it's rare for LCDs to handle more than 75Hz), and will be > seeing no signal for five out of every six frames (any modern monitor > will realize it's lost sync and will go into standby). >
> > In order to get this to work, the switch box needs to capture the > video signal for a frame, store it, and repeat it on a given monitor's > output until a new frame for that monitor comes along. Once that's > done, the rest of the problem becomes trivial. It would be easier > (and probably faster and cheaper) to lurk on Ebay until you can find a > four-port PCI video card. > > -- > Mark > A: This framebuffer idea seems to be the closer one from the ideal solution for this problem, given the circumstancies. A couple of people mentioned it to me today (some from here, some from my college), but I appreciate your data about the monitor's frequencies, it'll be very useful once Im reporting my progress and obstacles to my boss ;) The thing about buying on eBay, as I said before, is that its not easy to get money released from the government to buy stuff for such an unusual project, let alone tell them we're not buying from a store or a company, but from a online commerce website... It'd never be approved; The contract would have to be made with some company, in order to be supplied with x LCD monitors (at a lower cost, obviously, due to the ammount required).
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