Display LCD's without bezel?

[GZS]

Sorry for the shitty title, but I've searched a bit, but I don't really know where to search.


What I am looking to do is have three LCD's next to each other. The two outer ones at a 45 (or so) degree angle, and the center one obviously head on.

What I would like to do is to remove the bezels for a seamless integration of the three panels.

Is this safe? Is this even possible? I plan to use 24" LCD's if this makes a difference. It is for a cockpit (for racing simulators) that I am building, I plan to use triplehead2go, connect it to my 9600 gt and hope for the best. Are my expectations too great?

 

[Benny]

Yes, your expectations are to high.

You could try searching for the model numbers of the bare open frame panels which you'll find on the manufacturers sites like www.auo.com , http://www.samsung.com/global/business/lcdpanel/ or www.lgphilips-lcd.com .
They don't come with (the needed) controller board and the companies selling them usually aren't very end user oriented..
Buying a monitor and ripping it apart would probably be faster and less expensive. (unless you live in korea)

In case you take apart a monitor built with small bezel in mind like some samsung and most nec models,
what you'll find is that there will still be an aluminum bezel only a few a few mm smaller than the ripped of plastic.
The exact dimensions can be found on the panel manufacturer sites.
For example the 26'' nec bezel is about 4mm wider than that of the bare panel, the 245B about 7mm.

The manufacturers are also interested in making the panel (lcd matrix+backlight) bezel size as small as possible, combining several, further decreasing the size would need serious modifications, which would probably lead to a few destroyed monitors prior to having usable results.

I'd suggest ether simply buying monitors with small bezels, or if you take them apart cheap used ones that come without warranty anyway.
I'll leave you and http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/ on your own on finding out which models come with small bezels on the bare panels.

 

[Michael Daly]

If removing the gap between screens is a very high priority, a projector is the way to go. Three projectors and three screens can be aligned to eliminate the gap. Front projection has to go around the users's head (tricky) so rear projection is easier to do. However, this makes for a rather large overall size compared to flat panels.

Cost becomes a major factor as XGA projectors are relatively cheap (compared to HD but expensive compared to LCD/CRT) but low resolution while HD projectors with high resolution are very expensive.

Actually, you might be able to use two side LCD panels with a front projection centre panel. That would allow you to overlap the bezels on the side panels with the projector screen. Find a projector that can be placed well above the occupant's head with a lot of keystone correction. If you want to go with the highest resolution forward, then use one LCD centre with two projectors on the sides at lower resolution. If the sides are used for the sense of motion etc and not hi-res details, this should work fine.