Where to get cheal LCD displays for car mount?

jasno999 · Rated NC-17 Joined: 17 May 2006 Posts: 122 Location: PA

Well now that I have the GPS software instaleld on my laptop and evertyhing workign I have come to a new conclusion. That is ---- It is impossiabel to really look at the GPS trackign on the computer screen while you are actualyl driving.

So to humor myself I was goign to look into the idea of purchasign a small LCD screen that I could somehow mount to my dash and connect it to the laptop to be used as a GPS display.

So I need to knwo where I could find some small LCD displays that could be used for this arrangment and would be able to connect to my laptop. In a perfect world it would be realyl nice if I could find a LCD display that had touch or stylus input included so that I could simply click on the screen if I wanted to change the display or zoom in. Reason for that is because you can mess with the comptuer while driving but to click a screen that is right in front of you is nto all that bad.

Any ideas???

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 15:21:00 Post Subject:

Maybe you just need a navigator on all your trips? Laughing

I have a small LCD I reviewed exactly two years ago today that would be cool since it is a touch screen...

http://www.bigbruin.com/reviews/lilliput/

But, they are generally expensive. You can get them cheaper, but generally that means having to provide s-video input which doesn't look as good and won't be touch screen.

I want mine in the car, but it is a big pain figuring out the best way to mount it.

And there are also things like this...

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=GL701-NPCT&cat=MON

In dash with computer inputs, DVD, etc... Grin

jasno999 · Rated NC-17 Joined: 17 May 2006 Posts: 122 Location: PA

I am lookiogn for somehting cheap that is jsut a basic display to use for GPS navigation or I might be willign to shell out a little more for something wit hthe touch screen capability.

but I did find a few 5 and 7 inch displays ot there for uner 100 bucks.

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 15:55:32 Post Subject:

Yeah, look at in car DVD players or LCD screens intended for console games... Could get as low as $50-75ish... Just won't be the sharpest image ever.

jasno999 · Rated NC-17 Joined: 17 May 2006 Posts: 122 Location: PA

Where should I look?

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 22:45:47 Post Subject:

All over. Circuit City, Best Buy, Radio Shack, Geeks.com, mp3car.com... Even Wally World...

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?adid=1500000000000002888140&dest=115610&product_id=4100513

You can buy me that for Father's Day! Grin

BeerCheeze · Posted: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 01:13:22 Post Subject:

jasno999 · Rated NC-17 Joined: 17 May 2006 Posts: 122 Location: PA

Yup that is where I thought to look. Started with best buy and their web page is for crap. Can't find (or let me say eaisly find) stand alone type LCD screens.

I will search the other sites and then just love over the web and on pricewatch.com

Thanks again....

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 10:06:46 Post Subject:

I did a little search...

cool roof mount 7" for under $100

bunch of stuff in the car multimedia field

for $38 maybe you could modify this to work

in general Etronics seems like they have a large inventory

BeerCheeze · Posted: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 14:01:43 Post Subject:

The BB site was down, so I couldn't find them. But we bought these:

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=7754487&type=product&id=1141762944107