Smallest monitor solution?

[bhageman]

I'm installing a very nice media cabinet that will house my 32" television, my Sage HTPC, and a monitor. I have plenty of room in the cabinet, but I don't want to waste it on a monitor.

A remote solution won't work since I do need a local monitor for mp3 playback control via J. River and I don't want to have to go my office to control it. Plus I occasionally use the machine for burning DVDs, downloading mp3s, etc...

It looks like 13" is about as small as standard LCD displays come. Is anyone using anything smaller? Any other ideas?

Thanks!

[UPDATE: The 7" VGA/touchscreen from XenArc is around $700. For that price, I decided to shoehorn a $200 13' monitor into the cabinet, but I do appreciate the help.]

[David Lawrance]

I use my 32" television set as a monitor for the computer that my Sage system runs on. It works. It'd be much nicer to have a larger 720p HDTV monitor, but I can't afford that. I tried putting a separate monitor in the cabinet, but, that was pretty awkward, sitting at the cabinet. Using the TV and a wireless keyboard and mouse, I can work from the couch. It's certainly not my favorite computer / monitor in the house for getting work down, but it makes for reasonable web browsing and whatnot.

Something I've toyed with is using my wireless Palm device running VNC to clone the computer display and to pass keystrokes. I can't say that it is any better than the main setup, though.

[stanger89]

Xenarc makes 7" touchscreen LCDs.

[hoep]

Here (http://www.mini-itx.com/store/?c=25) you could find a 7" and a 8" touchscreen display

[DIBU]

Originally Posted by hoep

Here (http://www.mini-itx.com/store/?c=25) you could find a 7" and a 8" touchscreen display

well i have as secound screen a 7" touchscreen (vga) and the first is an big plasma (TV-Out)

[kny3twalker]

the first is an big plasma (TV-Out)

thats sad
reminds me of the voom commercials
where all the HDTVs/HD Monitors have no HD programming