- #HOW TO MAKE COMPUTER SCREEN SMALLER ON TV FULL#
- #HOW TO MAKE COMPUTER SCREEN SMALLER ON TV PORTABLE#
- #HOW TO MAKE COMPUTER SCREEN SMALLER ON TV SOFTWARE#
(make sure whatever you get its an active adapter, otherwise you'll have issues with the sdi conversion.
#HOW TO MAKE COMPUTER SCREEN SMALLER ON TV FULL#
The output on the Matrox TripleHead2Go is full sized display port, but we need to go to HDMI, so you will need 6 of these adapters. You will need 6 adapters to go from HDMI to SDI, and 6 to go from SDI to HDMI ( they are not the same adapter)Įnough RG6 Quad Shield cable to run from the computer to each TV (took me nearly 1,000 feet) You need to convert from HDMI to SDI, and then from SDI back to HDMI The brand is Excelvan, and it works very well for the price ($40 and $46). The converters I used where fairly cheap compared to other models I've used in the past like the Blackmagic units (which are absolutely amazing by the way). HDMI has a limitation of about 15 meters without a signal booster, and even with one you may end up with dropped frames and video that acts weird. You can use an hdmi to cat5 converter, or what I chose to do was to cary the signal over to SDI so that you can run an HD signal the distance you need to. So it will take 2 of these tripplehead's to get our 6 screens hooked up.ĭepending on how far away your source computer is you're going to need to convert to another kind of cable, hdmi won't cary that far. What this does is takes one extremely large image, over 6800 pixels wide, and splits it up into 3 different outputs. Since we're trying to output to 6 different tv's but only have 2 thunderbolt outputs we need to get a matrox TripleHead2Go adapter. but the mac can not do this with 6 monitors, only 3.
if it detects the triplehead's as one output instead of 2 you may be able to run it without any further software.
#HOW TO MAKE COMPUTER SCREEN SMALLER ON TV SOFTWARE#
Im not totally sure though because it depends on how the matrox software handles the outputs. You may not actually need this software though if you use a windows computer. I used ProVideoPlayer because I'm already using pro-presenter in the room for my lyrics control. That way you can make one big image instead of 6 small ones. You're going to need a screen mapping software to tell the computer which screen is which, and where they are physically positioned.
#HOW TO MAKE COMPUTER SCREEN SMALLER ON TV PORTABLE#
If you would like to go portable i have also used my 15" macbook pro with this setup and it handles it almost better than the imac (15" i7 with 15gb of ram). I went with 16gb and have had good results. Also you will want to have a good amount of ram because you're going to be using massive resolution images and video going out to 6 different video streams all at once. If you decide to use a 21.5" imac instead of the big one, MAKE SURE IT HAS 2 THUNDERBOLT PORTS!!!. For the mac you are going to need a computer with two thunderbolt outputs. I went mac but it turns out using 6 screens with the matrox trippleheads, it would've been easier to use windows because they have a multi GXM control software for windows and only a single for mac. I spent nearly $5,500 to build the entire wall (including a new computer to handle it) and that price could've easily gone up if I didn't have a full plan ahead of time and needed to re-order, or purchase extra items to get it to work correctly.įor a computer there are many options, you can go windows or mac. The most important part to building anything is to have a good plan to start with, and while most of the time I don't worry about having every little detail figured out ahead of time ( because most of the time it just works itself out) in this case its a really good idea to have it all planned out.
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