[KwartzLab] Sub-$100 HDMI monitors/TVs

[Chris Bruner]

That's a good price, and for doing workshops with raspberry pi's they 
would be great.  At that price they are just a bit over the cost of the 
pi itself.

On 11/26/2012 1:31 PM, Darcy Casselman wrote:
> 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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Chris Bruner