LCD Stripping for Bezel Management

Squalish · Post by **Squalish** » 27 Nov 2009, 16:36

I'm looking at this image from an LCD projector build-log and contemplating Eyefinity. Once rectified and scaled, Photoshop tells me that this 17" stripped laptop monitor appears to have internal bezels of 0.19" on the right, 0.10" on the top, 0.11" on the left, and 0.21" on the bottom of the screen. This represents a third of an inch black gap from one screen to the next. It's about an equivalent gap to holding a Bic pen between the adjacent pixels. The steel casing that supports the actual panel is intact, one only needs to exercise common sense in not bending/cracking the thin panel and be careful with the thin ribbon cables, which are nearly impossible to fix. The other boards need to be supported as well.

But this is a hobby that has extreme case-modders hanging around welding automotive radiators to their WW2-era ammo boxes. Surely we can replace a piece of injection-molded plastic.

As far as I can tell, a third of an inch combined is far better than any retail consumer monitor, but not quite a match for "seamless" professional-level multi-panel monitors, which run about 10x the cost for an equivalent product.

Independant resale value and warranty coverage are probably not going to survive this step (assuming that the panel itself does), but there's gotta be some people who would pay a mint for a 3-panel frame - if you succeed, you'll be able to unload it.

So is LCD stripping going to come into vogue?

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Post by **suiken_2mieu** » 27 Nov 2009, 17:22

Probably not, due to it not being easy to do.

Leapo · Post by **Leapo** » 28 Nov 2009, 22:50

Stripping is easy, making a new casing to hold all three panels is hard.

Someone would have to come up with some kind of semi-standard triple-monitor casing for a few popular monitor sizes. Anybody here have access to some CAD software and a mass prototyper? :P

[email protected] · Post by **[email protected]** » 04 Dec 2009, 18:45

I would like to do this, if I ever come into some cheap 15 inch XGA resolution displays I am gonna go for it just to test feasibility.

Another much easier project it to mount fresnel lenses in front of screens. This can if done right give a completely seamless display and also give the affect of your eyes focusing at a much further distance giving a better sense of depth.

Post by **Tamlin** » 04 Dec 2009, 18:56

I'm locking this thread, since there is an ongoing discussion about this in the Multi-monitor gaming forum. You can also see a link to a previous worklog there :) :

http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=17548

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