Extend video to an external display from multiple machines

[sgursahaney]

Does anybody know what video products are available that will allow me to extend my desktop to an external monitor (say, an HDTV) from any one of 8 workstations?

I am intrigued by that setup that they have on that TV show "NCIS" when Gibbs says "Put it on the flat panel, McGee!" and, with a single keystroke, the display on McGee's computer video screen appears on the big flat screen monitor. I want that!

If the TV show were reality, I would assume that the external video output from every workstation would be connected to some sort of MUX that is triggered via IP to be display the video on the big screen. In my lab, we have eight independent XP workstations each configured with two monitors, and we have a large 1080p HDTV hanging from the ceiling. I'd like the ability to put whatever one of the workstations is displaying on to the HDTV with a single keystroke (or a couple keystrokes, if necessary).

Does anybody know how that can be done?

 

[Lemon13]

u would need a 8 * switch

http://www.aten.com/products/produc...77002&pid=20050221160013006&layerid=subClass6

and a converter vga or dvi to hdmi

http://www.startech.com/item/VGAHD2HDMI-VGA-HD-with-Audio-to-HDMI-Format-Converter.aspx

 

[sgursahaney]

Thanks for the advice.

Do any of the switches have the ability to be triggered via IP?

 

[BadBigBen]

in that case you would need something like this:

Daxten DisplayIt Micro

http://www.daxten.com/us/vga-splitter-over-cat5-cabling.html

Ben

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