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Now...if we could find similar uses for all the TFT LCD displays out there
which are currently connected to dead or obsolete laptops, camcorders,
digicams, mini TV's etc.... If the manufacturers had settled on a common
display addressing scheme, someone could design a cheap universal interface
which would supply RGB, composite or VGA inputs to drive them.

I've got four or five displays in several such gadgets which are useless
without the aforementioned devices--which have all died--although the
expensive display is just fine.

Ebay them for spares, there are people out there who have units with
broken displays. I have passed several knackered laptops onto a good
home using ebay.
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Tim Mitchell