Jim Weir: Moving map GPS

Jim Carriere wrote:
Darrel Toepfer wrote:

RST Engineering wrote:

"John S" wrote...

Jim, I like some of the PDA based nav software (TeleType, Control
Vision),
but can't live with the tiny little screens on a PDA. And a nice
little
subnotebook computer--even used--is outrageously expensive.

J.C. Whitney sells a Pyramid 7" TFT/LCD monitor for DVD or
Videocassette
players (System: NTSC. Video input: composition video signal.) $150.
Will this kind of monitor work with a cheap laptop computer?



That is outside my field of expertise. Any bit twiddlers in here
care to respond?

Dual output laptops (notebooks) use SVGA/SVideo, so you'd have to
convert SVideo or SVGA to NTSC composite to be compatible. The dual
output allows you to have basically 2 desktops, an extension of your
current desktop or mirror the desktop to both displays...


I think there are some laptops around with composite video output, a
couple years ago we had some P-3 Dells at work with it I'm sure.

Composite is the one with a single yellow connector, right? (The same
type of connectors colored white and red are optional left and right
stereo sound.) My desktop computer has all 3 (VGA, S-Video, and
composite) inputs and outputs. I know, the original question is for
laptops.

Since a key part of the question is "cheap," it might take some shopping
around. I think there are inexpensive S-video to composite adapters
made too.

I'm typing from a computer that has composite out. Most Toshiba
notebooks have them. I have the Satellite model.

Unfortunately, it's useless for anything other than the DVD display as
the text is completely unreadable on the TV out.