Driving 1920 x 540 ... any ideas?

Havana_UK · 2 Mar 2010 at 09:35

Hi all,

I have a monitor here that began life as a 1920 x 1080 LG 47" and has been cut (yes, physically cut) in half. The resulting monitor has a resolution of 1920 x 540, but for the life of me I cannot find a way to get Windows to provide that resolution to the panel.

It displays 1920 x 1080 just fine, but obviously missing the bottom half of the picture.

So, does anyone know, or have any ideas how I can get Windows to send a 1920 x 540 signal over DVI?

There is no specific monitor driver available for the product I have here.

Hav

cokecan · 2 Mar 2010 at 09:41

powerstrip may be able to help you here. you can create your own custom resolutions but i have no idea what settings youd need to enter for that kind of res lol

Havana_UK · 2 Mar 2010 at 10:18

cokecan72 said:
powerstrip may be able to help you here. you can create your own custom resolutions but i have no idea what settings youd need to enter for that kind of res lol

OK, now tried that and wrote a custom monitor driver for 1920 x 540 but no joy.

So, can anyone else think of anything?

p4radox · 2 Mar 2010 at 10:36

I can't help out with your problem, but I'm curious as to how you managed to physically cut a 47" screen in half? :confused:

Havana_UK · 2 Mar 2010 at 10:43

Hehe, I didn't. It's a custom made TFT from a company that takes standard TFT displays and cuts them to create custom size / ratio monitors.

The display glass is sawn, new column & row drivers attached, custom driver card & scalar board etc fitted and it's rehoused in a custom housing. I'll put some piccies up shortly if I can.

The problem I'm facing is that Windows refuses to provide the option to display 1920 x 540 and I want to know how to overcome this issue!

Soul.Survivor · 2 Mar 2010 at 18:33

Havana_UK said:
Hehe, I didn't. It's a custom made TFT from a company that takes standard TFT displays and cuts them to create custom size / ratio monitors.

The display glass is sawn, new column & row drivers attached, custom driver card & scalar board etc fitted and it's rehoused in a custom housing. I'll put some piccies up shortly if I can.

The problem I'm facing is that Windows refuses to provide the option to display 1920 x 540 and I want to know how to overcome this issue!

I'd like to see some pics of that! :eek:

PinkFloyd · 2 Mar 2010 at 18:37

Yeh pics definitely required

craptakular · 2 Mar 2010 at 18:40

you can add custom resolutions in the nvidia drivers control panel.

Havana_UK · 2 Mar 2010 at 22:12

Oxy said:
you can add custom resolutions in the nvidia drivers control panel.

Thanks Oxy, I've just been messing with that and I will try it on this funky panel tomorrow.

In the meantime here's a (crappy) pic taken from my phone.

This panel now measures 42 1/2" diagonal.

Hav

VaderDSL · 2 Mar 2010 at 22:15

No offence meant but what would you use that for? It looks likeit fulfils a very specific function.

Havana_UK · 2 Mar 2010 at 22:21

VaderDSL said:
No offence meant but what would you use that for? It looks likeit fulfils a very specific function.

No offence taken.

You would use it for very specific applications where you needed a custom size display.

It's not intended for use as a computer monitor or TV.

VaderDSL · 2 Mar 2010 at 22:24

Yeeeessss?

And what applications do you use that require a custom resolution? I'm curious as to what it's used to display

I realise it's not intended as a monitor, but what do you use it for?

Havana_UK · 2 Mar 2010 at 23:35

VaderDSL said:
Yeeeessss? And what applications do you use that require a custom resolution? I'm curious as to what it's used to display

I realise it's not intended as a monitor, but what do you use it for?

These screens are hugely popular in gaming applications, digital signage, on vehicle displays etc. With a screen like this you could show a full 16:9 video (an advert for example) alongside some data or information (for example flight arrivals).

How about just outside a cinema screen, playing the movie trailer while displaying ticket prices and next show times?

The possible application areas are almost unlimIted.

gazjam · 3 Mar 2010 at 10:01

Also it mimicks a double (triple) monitor setup, without the bezel blocking the screen..

pretty cool for gaming.

p4radox · 3 Mar 2010 at 11:55

gazjam said:
Also it mimicks a double (triple) monitor setup, without the bezel blocking the screen..

pretty cool for gaming.

At very low resolution though. I'm not sure I'd like to game on it.

ebilcake · 3 Mar 2010 at 12:29

p4radox said:
At very low resolution though. I'm not sure I'd like to game on it.

Agreed, good idea but the resolution would be fairly low, maybe if it was 1080p x3.

Havana_UK · 4 Mar 2010 at 10:21

ebilcake said:
Agreed, good idea but the resolution would be fairly low, maybe if it was 1080p x3.

How about 3 x 42" 1080p panels joined together to make one large display with only a 6mm wide bezel in the joins between the three pieces of glass?

ttoonnyy · 31 Jul 2012 at 00:06

How much did that cost you?
I want one of these for like a lower display for timelines and graph editors in video and 3d software, would be awesome.. but I can only find some company in Taiwan called Litemax who sells something like this, with whom I had to exchange emails back and forth 7 bloody times, each time asking them for the price to receive replies like a list of questions about it's purpose and my industrial order, or "THeh price is onleyh in USD~~", hell they even asked me for it's price at one point before finally I managedto get it out of them, they said price is around $800, so f#@% that, might aswel get one of them big apple screens for that price and have the extra 500 pixels south that way..