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Integrating Laptop LCD in vehicle

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Forum Name: Mobile Video, GPS, and Navigation
Forum Discription: Mobile Video Head Units, DVD Players, LCD and TFT Monitors, Navigation, GPS, PS2, PS3, XBox, etc.
URL: https://www.the12volt.com/installbay/forum_posts.asp?tid=8428
Printed Date: August 18, 2025 at 11:56 PM


Topic: Integrating Laptop LCD in vehicle

Posted By: Swoosh31
Subject: Integrating Laptop LCD in vehicle
Date Posted: January 21, 2003 at 5:44 PM

I recently was given a 14" laptop LCD screen and was told that with minimal accessories I could integrate this into my vehicles mobile video system.  My question is: Has anybody tried or had success trying to integrated a laptop monitor into their video system.  I've been doing a lot of reading about these monitors but have not been able come with any instructions on which wires need to be used inorder to run a composite video signal in and which ones to use for power and ground

Anybody with any ideas please help me out

Josh




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Posted By: eddyet
Date Posted: January 27, 2003 at 7:45 PM

if you're serious about getting the computer n the car go to https://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/index.php as far as getting composite into the laptop screen, i doubt is will work.  to get standard computer viedo into a laptop lcd you need a controller card (~$200.00 if you're lucky).  good luck with your install!

eddyet





Posted By: Jonjonr6
Date Posted: January 31, 2003 at 10:27 AM
Can't be done. The latop LCD takes a VGA input, not composite. You need a screent hat already has composite support.




Posted By: eddyet
Date Posted: January 31, 2003 at 5:04 PM

it can be done, just really expensive and poor quality.  The laptop screen doesnt even take standard vga.  laptop screens take a digital signal (which is where the $300 controller card comes in to convert from digital to analog vga which is what a standard monitor is).  then you would need a device that would allow you to input composite viedo onto a computer monitor.  a couple of people make them but the cheapest i've seen is from viewsonic.its $400.00 heres a link: https://store.viewsonic.com/html/ibeCCtpItmDspRte.jsp?site=VS_STORE&section=10008&item=58921

if you have any more computer in car related questions just ask!

etrik






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