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Yeah, I found that too after a while when I was just browsing. Impossible to find with the search function.

I've looked around on ebay and found a few others, down to $80 USD at least. I guess I don't _really_ need 7" with touch functionality, I do have a remote so I can still use a 5" to select ...

Ok, I see what you mean there.

The 7" touch screen film is 16:9 anyway, so that is another chink in the chain. I might try to go for the 5"/5.4" 4:3 screens, and use the 7" touch on top. The dimensions are like thus:


5.4" 4:3
Width 4.3200
Height 3.2400
Area 13.9968

7" 16:9
Width 6.1010
Height ...

I could go for any size in the range between 5"-9", the problem is finding a cheap screen that can be used, and a touch screen film in the same size.

How much do they suck? I canceled the order for now.

Will they display this? http://helpdeskgeek.com/wp-content/pictures/2008/05/windows-vista-media-center.gif

It doesn't need to do much more than that.

Not that it matters much at this point, but what's with the S-video/RGB cable then? I'm too ...

It will be displaying the Vista Media Center interface, so I don't think it matters if the touch screen film is not so precise, those icons are pretty big, so it'll be fine as long as it responds to every touch and so on.

I've browsed dealextreme for an LCD screen all day it seems but I haven't ...

http://bildr.no/thumb/317798.jpeg

Here's a photo of the cable (took it with the webcam on my eee), I'm quite sure those are red, green and blue. :P
Are s-video and composite compatible things? If so, that's probably what it is and not RGB output as in a scart interface.

I guess the video card ...

You guys seem to know your screen hacking (as opposed to other forums I've visited), so I'll ask here even though this is a bit different than console mods.

I want to put a 7" (or so) touch screen in my HTPC, and connect it to the video cards second DVI or S-Video. (I also have a cable that is S ...

I'd go with aluminium, steel is a _lot_ heavier, and for this type of use you don't really need the qualities stainless steel has over aluminium.