What to do with two old monitors?

[Dokinator]

I have two old monitors just lying around. They are completely crud but i'm just wondering if anyone had any ideas of what I could use at least one for. Maybe link it up to my current work station to display something?, i'm not to sure, just bored and wanted to see if I could do anything with one.

Any opinions are appreciated

 

[olivier renault]

Depends. We still have good use for 17'' NEC LCDs, two monitors always better imo (especially for development). If it's CRTs, it's a waste of space.

 

[MeddlE]

I have a 15" NEC as a second screen showing Open Hardware Monitor among other things. Means I can monitor temps/voltages/processes while gaming.

 

[jamesadam]

Stick another screen on your setup, I did and i had to stop the other day as my bro's hdmi cable snapped and he took mine.. I'm dieing without it! i use mine for browsing the web while gaming as i dont have to keep alt + tab'ing.

 

[~Divine~Wind~]

Are they CRT or TFT?

 

[Guest2]

As already said, it depends what screens

 

[Dokinator]

Are they CRT or TFT?

TFT

 

[Evoss]

dual, triple, quad, etc... screen

 

[j.col]

give them to a charity shop? or stick them on freecycle

 

[OpenToSuggestions]

Sell them.
If you cannot sell give them away.
If you cannot give them away then bin them, but please put in the electrical waste not the wheelie bin for landfill .

 

[techpops]

Here's an idea, something I do myself.

Turn the spare screen 90 degrees so its sitting on its side and use the driver to rotate the screen in software. So a 1680x1050 screen becomes a 1050x1680 one. The beauty of this is books/magazines/comics look fantastic and no need to scroll.

Browsing is also transformed with this aspect ratio.

You don't need a fancy monitor arm to do this, you can rig up your own ghetto solution involving blutac, sticky backed plastic and cereal boxes (blue peter presenters would be proud of you)

 

[Dokinator]

Here's an idea, something I do myself.

Turn the spare screen 90 degrees so its sitting on its side and use the driver to rotate the screen in software. So a 1680x1050 screen becomes a 1050x1680 one. The beauty of this is books/magazines/comics look fantastic and no need to scroll.

Browsing is also transformed with this aspect ratio.

You don't need a fancy monitor arm to do this, you can rig up your own ghetto solution involving blutac, sticky backed plastic and cereal boxes (blue peter presenters would be proud of you)

Haha, I was going to do this but I have no means of rotating it, I would have looked at web pages and iTunes on it but I don't fancy using blue tac and so on

 

[Hyburnate]

Stick them on MM.

 

[Randomface74]

Put a sheet of glass across the top and make a table.

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[Dokinator]

Put a sheet of glass across the top and make a table.

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That would look 'SO TOTALLY AWESOME' lol, Would be a very small table though

 

[unwashed potato!]

put it in kitchen/dining and plug in cheap media pc thing. perhaps get a webcam and put that outside the front door then put the screen inside the door so you've got a cool cctv style unit.