Hanwha 7-Inch LCD Uses D-Sub, Not USB Connection

Compact secondary displays, like Nanovision's MIMO range, are useful ways of adding a little extra desktop to your computer.  Connecting via USB, they sit happily next to your full-sized display or laptop.  Hanwha Japan, though, have given their secondary LCD something of an odd twist: instead of using USB, it connects via a D-Sub VGA port.

That means you'll need a dual-head graphics card if you want to use the WM-TL7 with your desktop, though notebook and netbook users should be fine as most have a VGA output.  Specs for the 7-inch display are WVGA resolution (800 x 480), 200:1 contrast ratio and 240cd/m2 brightness; as is usually the case, response time is on the sluggish side at 30ms.

While this might seem a vaguely pointless product given the ease of use a USB DisplayLink monitor offers, it could have its strong points.  DisplayLink requires some processing power to create a virtual graphics card and run the display; why not use the existing graphics card and save CPU cycles?  The Hanwha Japan VM-TL7 is available in Japan now, priced at around $223.

[via Akihabara]