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Building a Video Wall out of Old Laptops?

Posted by Cliff on from the that's-one-use-for-'em dept.

alphakappa asks: "I am interested in building a video wall as a personal project using recycled old laptops so that I can make use of the display controllers that are already present. Is there free or cheap software that can extend the display on Windows and still be capable of showing different videos on different zones (like, say run a video in one zone while showing a powerpoint presentation in another one) What tools would you use?"

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  1. MaxiVista might be what you are looking for by Hard_Rock_2 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've not used it myself, but some friends have and it worked pretty well. http://www.maxivista.com/ Also perhaps you could bug the synergy team (this is an open source project), although I don't think this feature is something that will be implemented anytime soon... http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ Though if you just want to control all the computers from one place, then synergy should work.