Windows Mobile device as extra monitor

Stretch · 17 Feb 2008 at 22:38

Is it possible to use my windows mobile device as a secondary monitor in windows Vista?

Caged · 17 Feb 2008 at 22:42

No. I think there's apps you can run on them that talk to your PC to put information on there, but you won't be dragging a window onto them any time soon.

Stretch · 18 Feb 2008 at 13:51

Caged said:
No. I think there's apps you can run on them that talk to your PC to put information on there, but you won't be dragging a window onto them any time soon.

I'm sure I've seen articles in the past explaining how you can make it work, but I can't find anything any more. I really can't believe no one has developed anything to make this possible, seems like a bit of a no brainier to me

Burnsy2023 · 18 Feb 2008 at 13:53

Stretch said:
I'm sure I've seen articles in the past explaining how you can make it work, but I can't find anything any more. I really can't believe no one has developed anything to make this possible, seems like a bit of a no brainier to me

Really? I'm finding it hard to think of a scenario where it'd be useful :confused:

Burnsy

Stretch · 18 Feb 2008 at 13:58

Burnsy2023 said:
Really? I'm finding it hard to think of a scenario where it'd be useful

Burnsy

I really want so I can watch movies/TV whilst playing games.

Burnsy2023 · 18 Feb 2008 at 14:02

On such a small display?

Burnsy

Stretch · 18 Feb 2008 at 14:36

Burnsy2023 said:
On such a small display?

Burnsy

Yup, why not?

Burnsy2023 · 18 Feb 2008 at 14:38

Stretch said:
Yup, why not?

Surely downscaling a high res video onto a small display would make it look very nasty?

Burnsy

Stretch · 18 Feb 2008 at 15:39

Burnsy2023 said:
Surely downscaling a high res video onto a small display would make it look very nasty?

Burnsy

Nope, it works fine when I play DIVX movies on the device.

Energize · 18 Feb 2008 at 17:17

Burnsy2023 said:
Surely downscaling a high res video onto a small display would make it look very nasty?

Burnsy

Only if your using ye olde "nearest neighbour" to downscale, "bicubic" and espically "lanczos" are perfect.

What your asking for can't be done, the best you are going to get is possibly by setting up a media server program on your pc that transcodes videos on the fly that the ppc can access.