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Wireless Monitors?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the step-in-the-right-direction dept.

antiopus writes "I didn't think it was possible anytime soon due to bandwidth considerations, but ViewSonic has announced a wireless monitor. At only 10 inches and 800x600, I don't know if it'll be replacing my CRT anytime soon, but I can certainly foresee some interesting applications for wearable/portable computing."

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  1. Re:This isn't a wireless monitor by TheGreenLantern · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But Viewsonic is marketing this as a "Wireless Monitor", even if it is just a tablet PC doing some remote access.

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  2. I always find myself needed a wireless monitor by automatic_jack · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm an MIS Manager at a small company, and I very often find myself wishing that I had a portable wireless monitor. We run a lot of machines headless, and when they have problems, dragging a monitor over to them can be a real pain. What if all I had to do was get within range, turn on my display, and diagnose the problem? Man, that'd be sweet.

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  3. Someday, I'll have... by mblase · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...of course, in a house where we can't even keep the cordless phone on its recharger for more than five minutes and stash the remote control in a new location every day, this will probably be less of a boon than some people think.

  4. Re:Compression, compression, compression by SuiteSisterMary · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Latency, schmatency. Build it into the hardware. You get an video card with your standard VGA out, and a transmitter. The card also has some image compression software built in; say, just for arugment sake, PNG. Your wireless reciever, with an LCD screen, has a hardware PNG decoder. Boom. So long as you're not doing full scream video or motion graphics, you're MORE than covered. But even that's overkill. Use something like X, or RDP, where you're not transmitting the screen, you're transmitting the drawing instructions, and the HID coords and actions. Suddenly, instead of transmitting several thousand grey pixels to make your task bar, you're sending 'draw a grey rectangle from here to here.' and being done with it.

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  5. Re:This isn't a wireless monitor by TheGreenLantern · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Cause no one's going to spend $900 on a "large format PDA"? Seriously, it's all in how you market your product.

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  6. Re:This isn't a wireless monitor by madenosine · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah, but it proves that the editor did not even take the time to read the first paragraph. If he did, he would have added a note on.