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Small monitor options for R-Pi

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So, I know many people will want to hook the R-Pi up to a 50-inch HDTV, but some of us will want to keep it small (such as for a CarPC). I am not thinking about touchscreen capability, simply small LCD displays. So, there are $1000 5" to 8" LCDs meant for digital photography, but that is nuts. So, I found that small portable LCD TVs should be the way to go. The cheap Coby and Axion 7" LCD TVs have RCA/composite video input jack, and luckily the R-Pi also has an RCA/composite video output jack!  They are about $50 to $60.

 

Coby

http://www.bing.com/shopping/coby-tf-tv791-7-lcd-tv/specs

 

Axion

http://www.bing.com/shopping/axion-axn-8701-7-lcd-tv/specs

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  • Be aware that the monitor must have either HDMI, or composite video input (Yellow RCA input, directly or through a SCART adapter).

    So no "RGB", "component video" or S-Video (mini DIN-4). These are all unsupported, as is VGA.

     

    Interestingly the RasPI does support raw LCD panels, through its 15-pins MIPI Display Serial Interface (DSI) connector, although at the moment there doesn't seem to be any software support for it, and the pinning of the 15-pins connector is also unknown.

     

    The RasPI supports a range of digital low resolution settings such as 640x350 (EGA); 640x480 (VGA) and 800x600 (SVGA)

    on its composite output it can handle both PAL 576i interlaced 720x576 50 Hz as NTSC 480i interlaced 720x480 60Hz, as well as some variations on PAL and NTSC, for example Japanese NTSC. Other low resolutions seem to be possible with some "tweaking", currently the tweaking to get composite video resolutions has not seem to be finished yet, but the hardware can do at least the above.

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  • Be aware that the monitor must have either HDMI, or composite video input (Yellow RCA input, directly or through a SCART adapter).

    So no "RGB", "component video" or S-Video (mini DIN-4). These are all unsupported, as is VGA.

     

    Interestingly the RasPI does support raw LCD panels, through its 15-pins MIPI Display Serial Interface (DSI) connector, although at the moment there doesn't seem to be any software support for it, and the pinning of the 15-pins connector is also unknown.

     

    The RasPI supports a range of digital low resolution settings such as 640x350 (EGA); 640x480 (VGA) and 800x600 (SVGA)

    on its composite output it can handle both PAL 576i interlaced 720x576 50 Hz as NTSC 480i interlaced 720x480 60Hz, as well as some variations on PAL and NTSC, for example Japanese NTSC. Other low resolutions seem to be possible with some "tweaking", currently the tweaking to get composite video resolutions has not seem to be finished yet, but the hardware can do at least the above.

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