hey man, I'm far from an expert when it comes to lcd's, but I do play around with them a bit
nec makes great industrial panels, I have a dual bulb really bright nec 8.4" that's 1024X768, 160x160 viewing angles, looks fantastic. this new technology looks great, & there starting out with a really bright backlight too, unlike transflective, which hurts the backlight to even less than the panel was rated before transflective enhanced., only disapointing thing with the panel you chose is the 800X600, if that was xga it'd be a clear winner so far.
there are competing & equally impressive advancements from all of the major lcd manufactures, boe hydis, nec, sharp, au optronics & others all have pretty cool technology either here or almost here, if these are here & you can live with 800X600 then you can't go wrong with an nec panel, that's for sure
I think your off on your $40 for an lvds controller though, a premium screen like this should get a decent controller, the panel is dual mode, 6 bit or 8 bit, 8 bit is more colors & the better way to go if you can find a controller that'll do 8 bit vga, but 6 bit is fine really if need be. I'd expect a decent controller to be over $100 really by itself.
I guess if your set on getting this panel reach out & see who will sell you one, buying 10 sounds like a pain, considering everything else necissary to put a whole package togeather your talking over 7K investment for 10 whole setups, to make what? you'd have to make a few grand to do a whole deal like this I'd say, so how expensive will retail be? pretty up there... no one is going to lay out all that money & r&d to sell them for no profit. I guess if these panels are really that great then they'd sell...
I'm doing an install right now with a sharp 10.4" panel that's full reflective, totally sick in the sun, with no backlight at all! the technology with smaller lcd's is getting better all the time, this is latest greatest so far from nec & it sure looks cool
