On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Kenneth Crudup wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
>
> > WARNING: this is not well tested and
> > incorrect timings sent to flat panels can damage them! So use
> > it at your own risk.
>
> Thank you for bringing up something I've wanted to know for a long time:
>
> - I can imagine that LCD displays *need* timings since video chips have
> a "raster" paradigm, but *why* would timing even matter? Those devices
> are always-on, "parallel" (as opposed to scan-line) devices, right?
>
> Seems to me that as long as the LCD displays can pick the video signals
> out of the composite stream, timings/scan-rates shouldn't matter.
>
> Obviously I'm way wrong, so please enlighten me.
I have no idea how flat panels work. I've never seen beyond the
input to the TMDS controller. I only know that people have damaged
them in the past, more frequently than monitors (percentage-wise)
it seems.
Mark.
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