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=== Which card? ===
=== Which card? ===
Tom recommends you start with the [http://www.led-card.com/novastar-mrv336-led-display-receptor.html Novastar MRV336 LED Display Wall Receiver Card] because it's cheap and can do lots and lots of LED tiles on one card.
Tom recommends you start with the [http://www.led-card.com/novastar-mrv336-led-display-receptor.html Novastar MRV336 LED Display receptor] because it's cheap and can do lots and lots of LED tiles on one card.


You are also going to need one a [http://www.led-cardcom/novastar-msd300-led-display-decoder.html Novastar LED MCTRL300 Synchronous LED Sender Box] to act as your DVI to LED converter card.
You are also going to need one a [http://www.led-card.com/product_info.php?cPath=23&products_id=205&osCsid=70e2be2c8933148debdfaec8af708649 Novastar MSD300 LED display decoder] to act as your DVI to LED converter card.


With this little bundle of kit you literally have enough to map a 64x16  pixel slice of your computer desktop straight onto the LED tiles at full video quality and frame-rate. Add more LED tiles for bigger pixel space. Copy Paste Repeat and you could take this all the way to 4k width or height although a screen with these pixels at 4k size would be mahussive!!!
With this little bundle of kit you literally have enough to map a 64x16  pixel slice of your computer desktop straight onto the LED tiles at full video quality and frame-rate. Add more LED tiles for bigger pixel space. Copy Paste Repeat and you could take this all the way to 4k width or height although a screen with these pixels at 4k size would be mahussive!!!