Re: Multi-Monitor Questions

["Lukas Beeler" <lukas.beeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 4:31 PM,  <daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 1.  How would one physically attach ten monitors to a single PC?

Matrox offers special graphics card for just this purpose.

For example, this is a quad monitor card:
http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/graphics_cards/mms_series/g450x4mms/

> 2.  What distance limitations are there on a signal for a typical monitor?
>  Can they be overcome by additional hardware?

3m
Yes, but that hardware is either low quality or very expensive.

> 3.  What software or other methods are available to control that a
> particular window opens on a particular monitor?

You can control the window placement programatically, but there also
multiple multi-monitor management programs out there. Matrox cards
usually ship with one.

I can recommend Ultramon
http://www.realtimesoft.com/ultramon/

Basically, i think you're better of buying multiple PCs. The
complexity of attaching 10 monitors to a PC is high, especially if
those are strewn throughout a warehouse. Another way would be to run
the software on a terminal server, and publish it to thin clients.