Junkyard Jumbotron: join all your screens into one big one, no software needed

Slightly OT, how do they do it on TV shops where they put a lot of TVs to form a big screen? How are the images split? Can I do it with any TV?

quote:<p><i>RickBorovoy</i><p><pre><code> To make your own Junkyard Jumbotron, please use http://jumbotron.media.mit.edu The jj.brownbag link above is an earlier version of the software. And please post your feedback / results on the Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Junkyard-Jumbotron/207846822564634</code></pre>

This is similar to the digital billboard panels on the sidelines at sporting events. There are some augmented reality applications possible with this idea too.<p>Back in the seventies and eighties before very large TVs having 20 TVs daisy chained together was all the rage to have in your coke dealer mansion.

Couldn't get two screens on the same computer to calibrate properly. One of them always showed up with the big broken sign. I had to use two different browsers for it to even create two patterns so maybe there's a bug in the calibration when the two screens are on the same computer.

This could be really interesting for people working with digital art installations (using old PCs and monitors/TVs).<p>A shame that its not likely to work with the wooden 'mirror' though: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCSbk9JDwPY" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCSbk9JDwPY</a>

combining cell-phone screens automatically? lame.<p>combining video projectors automatically? awesome.<p>i wonder if the code can deal with overlapping displays.

No software needed _except a browser_ much less amazing than title suggests.