Need help with a display TV project

[Blues]

I am needing to setup 4 TV screens to run off as few PCs as possible and have the screens change what they display every so often. We have applications and scripts that retrieve the current data they want but we need to figure how do make the screens rotate which application is active/displayed. The data is live and from multiple applications I don't know if this can all be run via 1 PC or what. I am looking for recommendations or help in at least finding my options to accomplish this. My searching so far has turned up nothing so I might also be searching with the wrong terms so any guidance is welcome at this point.

 

[Computerpete]

Are they tv screens or monitors if you have monitors what you can do is put 2 video cards in each pc that is two monitors for each pc and put in tv tuner card to turn the monitors into tv's.

 

[Computerpete]

This might help
http://www.online-tech-tips.com/computer-tips/how-to-connect-your-laptoppccomputer-to-your-tv/

 

[meanderer]

connecting multiple monitor to 1 computer is almost trivial. Showing different content for different screen without manual work is the difficult part.

what kind of script are you using to show your stuff?

I know from one implementation that they use powerpoint show and put it into a startup item. so the computer shows the powerpoint in full screen right after bootup. I don't know how to set it up for many display all doing different things tho.

But for this purpose you can use very very cheap hardware, a nettop should suffice right?

I would like to find out how to make a program automatically run fullscreen on a certain monitor. Knowing that would greatly help in this application.

 

[14049752]

As said, setting up the monitors from one PC is easy. If they're televisions, use either vga, dvi or hdmi as needed.

To make the applications open on the correct monitor (and assuming the OS is Windows), you could use UltraMon to control which monitor the applications open on. That setting is persistant, so if you want an app to always open on monitor 3, it will. You can also use VBScript with UltraMon, if you'd like to rotate it from monitor to monitor.

http://www.realtimesoft.com/ultramon/scripts/

 

[Blues]

I want them to open and I want it to change through out the day which screen it is on that is where I am having an issue.

I can hook the TVs to the Computer no trouble the trouble is determining if I need more than 1 PC for 4 TVs and how to move the apps/screens so that the display rotates kinda like it was a slide show. The complication being live data I can't just run a slide show or video file.

It looks like there might be a script for that in that link 14049752 so I will look into it might see if we can install and test it on a multi display PC around here.

 

[meanderer]

using the desktop background script, generate the background using a separate program?

sounds like you are building a stock ticker display XD