On 8/21/06, Dieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

And yet a US$150 LCD panel presumably contains a scan converter, and
one that does higher than NTSC/PAL resolution.  Something doesn't add up.

There are different levels of quality of scanconverters, but probably
it's an issue of integration.  The monitor takes DVI, while the glass
often takes LVDS.  There may already be a need for an intermediate
framebuffer.  Building a simple scaler into the existing hardware may
not really be all that difficult or expensive.

A standalone scaler would incur all sorts of additional costs.

If the display supports the telling-the-graphics-chip-what-resolution-it-is
feature, but does not support 640x480, would that work?  Does pee-sea firmware
insist on 640x480 regardless?  Would the graphics chip convert?

PC's usually do, but we don't have to.  We're faking out the host in
all sorts of ways.
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