Thread: FAQ: Everything you need to know about your LinITX/MM400/TView

Monitor specs and picture (taken from LinITX site):

* Display size: 7" - 16:9 Widescreen
* Resolution: 800 x 480 native, supports up to 1600 x 1200
* Brightness: 400cd/m2
* Contrast Ratio: 150:1
* Video Input: 1 x VGA + 2 x Composite
* Touchscreen: USB Input
* Power Consumption: 10W Max
* Mains Adapter and Car Adapter included
* Headrest shroud included
* Remote control
* Stand included
* Drivers supplied for Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP, XP Tablet PC edition, Windows CE 2.12/3.0/.net, Redhat and Mandrake.
* Monitor Dimensions: 179L x 128H x 27W mm

* USB touchscreen totaly hot pluggable and turn - offable. Touchscreen is powered by USB, not 12 volt input, so T/S works even if screen is off. USB can be unplugged / plugged live without any nag screens etc.

* Touchscreen is sensitive when used with fingernail, not so good with flat finger. Software is easy to install and set up, and does stuff like control how touchscreen works with 2 screens.

* Video is better extended with non-choked (the big lump just before the connector) cables. Choked "high quality" cables tend to make it ghost badly. 5 meter USB cable plus 3 times 1.5 metre cheapo VGA cables chained together works fine, and extends all cables including power to about 5 meters, video cables (RCA) to about 3 metres.

* solid feeling enclosure with nice texture. Single screw in bottom to secure to mounting, or snap-in 'headrest' surround. Hitachi innards.

* Screen doesn't auto turn on with power, goes blue with no VGA signal.

Hi,

hope you dont' mind me chucking in my bit, i had a Lilliput for around 1.5 years, as most people found they are trouble trouble and more trouble. Finally touch screen packin all together so went for a Linits.com screen, here it what i have found in the month or so i have been using it.

Case / Build
Very good, agree the head rest holder is a little insecure but you could problerbly fix that with a little bit of thought, outside case if a kind of rubbery feel and matches well to car interior. All cables etc and the stand are good quality and fit well unlike the lilliput and no need to plug that awlful usb connector in to the side like the lilli, all connections are to the short cables that come out the bottom, i found these can easily be folded back around and are pretty easy to hide but maybe rear exiting cables would be a good idea to make them tottaly invisible.

Screen
Quality of picture is excellent although mine has a black area across the top which seems as if the screen if not alighned with the top of the case, I have seen reports of others with this in this forum so they all may be like this.
Colours are good but surprisingly it does not seem quiet as bright as my Lilliput, most people say they are brighter, it is less reflective though this makes it more readable on bright days.

Touchscreen
This is a dream, a real upgrade on the Lilliput with it's unresponsive right side and constantly having to realign it and then only if it actually decided to wotk that day. Took this out of the box and worked great with no alignment at all, dod 4 and 25 point and it is very accurate, i use Infomap navigator which doe stend to have small buttons and needs use of pulldowns and all are accessable easily with the touchscreen. All parts of the touchscreen are also responsive unlike the lilliput.

overall i think this screen is a vast improvement of the Lilliput and given the price £175.00 from Linitx it is good value for money, only time will see how reliable they are but i hvae had no problems at all yet.

My tview came with some data sheet, it says its a panasonic display, havent opened the case yet though.
300cd/m brightness
viewing angle L/R/T/B 45/45/10/25
contrast ratio 150
input 12v +/- 15%
consumption 700mA max 10W max
never had 1 problem with the touchscreen, works best with a fingernail or stylus like the other guy said.

i run mine off a cig lighter type adapter that regulates the voltage around 12.5V that i hard wired to my ignition.

Just recieved this screen yesterday. It's great, no calibration issues, pretty bright screen. Didn't even need to recalibrate, it came working fine with just the drivers. I got it for 200 shipped from ebay. Right now it has one dead pixel but the seller agreed to take it back and send me a new monitor. I'll post up the seller after he resends the monitor. Overall great monitor!

Well since my last posting I have been using and abusing my LinItx for over a year and thought it worth updating on my experiences.

Touchscreen
This has been a dream, I have had only 2 ocassions when it stopped working but a reboot of the pc fixed this, given this it is most proberbly a software or PC fault not the actual screen.
Never had to recalibrate the screen since I first had it and did the calibration, never missed a beat even given the very hot summer and very cold winter days, unlike my old Lilliput that seemed to change with the weather and touch screen that had a mind of its own.

Picture
Has been great, despite my early reservations about brightness, it is just as bright as the Lilli I had before but much more clear and sharp. The actual picture has been rock solid and never given any kind of problem in either VGA or video modes.

General
I take out the display most days and have had no problem with the connectors, I understand the new ones have an even better one connector design.
The screen has been a VAST improvement on my old 7" Lilliput, the casing still looks like new despite it being removed every day, the rubbery coating seems to have taken all the knocks.

Problems
Well their are not many to mention, one problem I did have was that in the hot weather the rubbery strip that goes around the screen just inside the case seems to have melted or the glue has and the strip slipped on to the edge of the screen, this was easily removed and seems to have been caused by the heat.

On one very cold weekend I had left the screen in the car and it refused to switch on, once warmed up and the power was removed and re aplied it worked fine. Since then we have had MUCH colder weather and it has been fine, so just a minor problem and may have been caused by the sudden heating of the car causing condesation in the screen.

Other than that its been a dream and I would recommend them to anyone, the newer model they now sell also has a few new refinements.

Hope this is of some help

Mark Ward