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Double LCD Screens for Production, what to recommnd?

  • 04-02-2009 12:22PM
    #1
    jose-fahartose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 97 ✭✭


    Hey

    I'm looking to buy an LCD screen monitor for producing but have no clue as to what to get. In my college here there is a studio with 2 screens for production.

    With this double screen can you buy anytwo LCD's or do they have to specifically designed & bought to gether??

    Cheers


Comments

  • #2
    BuddhaJoe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 329 ✭✭BuddhaJoe


    Any two screens will work fine as long as you have a dual head graphics card.


  • #3
    studiorat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,408 ✭✭✭studiorat


    Yeah, any two but a pair would look better! Screens are real cheap now compaired to back in the day. My first 15" LCD cost £850!!!!

    There's a really nice NEC 22" screen in the window of Right Click on Camden street in Dublin at the moment. Just under €250, I bet you'd get a decent price if you were looking for two. Then again You could probably pick up a second hand one for next to nothing!!!

    Anyway it really depends on the program you are running as to whether two screens are useful or not.


  • #4
    thebookofbob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 165 ✭✭thebookofbob


    Got a couple of the Dabs Value 26" TFT screens.. for €250 a piece .. can't go wrong.. a year of solid daily use and not a problem


  • #5
    Neurojazz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,759 ✭✭✭Neurojazz


    In case you go mad and get 3/4 screens - make sure you get the same GPU on both the graphics cards :)


  • #6
    jose-fahartose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 97 ✭✭jose-fahartose


    Neurojazz wrote: »
    In case you go mad and get 3/4 screens - make sure you get the same GPU on both the graphics cards :)

    Cheers for that just wanted to see if any two would work together, won't be getting more than two just yet anyway!! Don't think i've a dual graphics card in my macbook, whats the story with the GPU?


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  • #7
    Neurojazz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,759 ✭✭✭Neurojazz


    It's to do with the way your OS addresses the drivers... - i don't know finite stuff about it - but a google search soon warned me BEFORE the event :) - strange, no hindsight needed!


  • #8
    jose-fahartose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 97 ✭✭jose-fahartose


    Neurojazz wrote: »
    It's to do with the way your OS addresses the drivers... - i don't know finite stuff about it - but a google search soon warned me BEFORE the event :) - strange, no hindsight needed!


    Cheers man now the buying starts!!


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