Jim Weir: Moving map GPS

Darrel Toepfer wrote:
RST Engineering wrote:

"John S" wrote...

Jim, I like some of the PDA based nav software (TeleType, Control
Vision),
but can't live with the tiny little screens on a PDA. And a nice little
subnotebook computer--even used--is outrageously expensive.

J.C. Whitney sells a Pyramid 7" TFT/LCD monitor for DVD or Videocassette
players (System: NTSC. Video input: composition video signal.) $150.
Will this kind of monitor work with a cheap laptop computer?


That is outside my field of expertise. Any bit twiddlers in here
care to respond?

Dual output laptops (notebooks) use SVGA/SVideo, so you'd have to
convert SVideo or SVGA to NTSC composite to be compatible. The dual
output allows you to have basically 2 desktops, an extension of your
current desktop or mirror the desktop to both displays...

I think there are some laptops around with composite video output, a
couple years ago we had some P-3 Dells at work with it I'm sure.

Composite is the one with a single yellow connector, right? (The
same type of connectors colored white and red are optional left and
right stereo sound.) My desktop computer has all 3 (VGA, S-Video,
and composite) inputs and outputs. I know, the original question is
for laptops.

Since a key part of the question is "cheap," it might take some
shopping around. I think there are inexpensive S-video to composite
adapters made too.