[KwartzLab] Sub-$100 HDMI monitors/TVs

[Darcy Casselman]

Now we're getting somewhere:
http://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/19-crab-shape-lcd-tv-720p/10154688?trail&fromPLP=true&ancestorID&searchString&startSearch&fromSearchBox&addFacet#product-info-features

Darcy.

On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Ben Brown <ben at kwartzlab.ca> wrote:
> On 11/26/2012 10:19 AM, Stephen Paul Weber wrote:
>> Somebody claiming to be Darcy Casselman wrote:
>>> Is such a thing possible?  Scouring Black Friday sales, the best it
>>> seemed like I can manage is 21" TVs for $99.99.  18-19" TVs are
>>> regularly around that price.
>>
>> Anything labelled "TV" will always be a ripoff.
>>
>> Any recent monitor will have DVI, which is HDMI compatbile with a <$5
>> adapter.  So, basically, any monitor you find will do.
>
> Unless you want the HDMI audio from the raspi, although in the Debian
> image it's apparently disabled by default (as the ALSA driver is in
> beta) and by default the HDMI connection is set to DVI mode only (can be
> changed in /boot/config.txt)
>
> Ben
>
>
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