I was 
scrolling down engadget earlier today and I spotted this cool little device that they just reviewed. It’s a 7-inch display that works as a second monitor on your PC, it’s from Korea and hard to get hold of. Why’s that so cool? Well they’re really sharp and the top of the range model, at $200, is touch screen. This thing also connects with a single USB – yep video over USB. The review’s worth a read and it seems they were really impressed with them.
It kinda gets me thinking that a second screen would be handy, especially if it was a touch screen, on your media center. I’m guessing one of these would work over a wireless USB connection (Belkin do one) and with that this could sit by the couch and be a very cool remote. I wouldn’t want a even a 15-inch sat next to the couch, but a 7-inch would look cool.
I like this, I think it’s got a bit of a future…
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Secondary touch screens are all well and good but you can’t do much with them. I wanted to run Media Center on a 7″ touch screen on a media center case and also have Media Center on the TV at the same time. Clone monitors, but there is still that limitation of both screens needing to be the same resolution and no amount of fiddling with Ultra mon and the Nvidia settings seemed to get the desired result. Sure ATI hot keys might be handy to fast switch but this was an Nvidia card.
So then you are left with what to put on the touch screen? Ngrc, Mirage, MCE SideShow gadgets, Origami Experience etc.
Some software to control media center or your media content. If anyone knows how to run Media Center on two screens at different resolutions reliably then I’d love to hear from you.
I’ve remembered some more:
We did actually get VMC on both the 7″ touch screen and the HDTV (Cloned) Ultra Mon reported that the 7″ touch screen was 800 x 600 and the HDTV was 1920 x 1080. However the HDTV its self was showing it was running at 720P and not 1080P as the 1920 x 1080 resolution setting suggested. This is as close to setting this up as I have ever been!
Would be great to have VMC on both your HDTV and a touch screen.