[Peripherals] projector resolution

[Joshua N Pritikin]

On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 05:01:57PM -0500, Richard A. Smith wrote:
> Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
>> I asked: "The projector ought to have what minimum resolution to 
>> display a decent approximation of the XO screen? Does 800x600 result in 
>> a blurry mess? Is 1024x768 enough?"
>
> If you have a usb video device you will be working with the  
> full 1200x900 RGB data and outputting to a display with a more  
> traditional pixel layout.  So your end result would be more like what  
> you would see when you scale the output from a traditional display 
> device.
>
> The short answer then is nobody knows. You will have runs some tests and  
> see.

There have got to be people in the field who know. The web page 
suggests that some people have tried it.

> If I were going to test this then I think I would run a VNC server on  
> the XO and then play with different settings on client and see how it 
> looks.

Ugh.