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Because most of these displays look like monitors to your system. Using the existing rendering pipelines to a full screen monitor is far easier, and less expens
by ehutch79 5y ago
Because most of these displays look like monitors to your system. Using the existing rendering pipelines to a full screen monitor is far easier, and less expensive then custom hardware just to move pixels that the built in graphics card is more than capable of
- chrisseaton 5y agoOk so it's a quick hack for video output but they're going to run into problems like this. And for example any notifications, system updates, Launchpad, whatever, would also appear. That's how you end up with goofy things like a sign with a Windows 'need to update now' message. If they were doing it properly with a production video output they wouldn't have this problem.
- jaywalk 5y agoYou can call it a "quick hack" if you'd like, but I can assure you that all of the potential pitfalls you mention are taken into account by the people who setup and run these systems. You're not going to "gotcha!" people who have actually done this stuff.