By contrast, I just bought a brand new 32" TV at Best Buy for a demo monitor. It was $450 and does 1920x1080.
Laptop LCDs use a variety of different interfaces, so it's hard to make a generic kit. By the time you do, the volume demand for such a kit is so low, you end up with having to price it in the $200-$300 dollar range to make your R&D and manufacturing costs back. For about the same money you can get an LCD monitor of similar size/resolution to the laptop display in an easy ready-to-use package.
Earth LCD is your best resource for LCD hackery. They have a controller kit that will drive certain LCD panels. It's $200 and will drive a panel at a rez up to 1024x768 http://store.earthlcd.com/NK-GM2221-421-LCD-Controller-KIt?s...
By contrast, I just bought a brand new 32" TV at Best Buy for a demo monitor. It was $450 and does 1920x1080.
Laptop LCDs use a variety of different interfaces, so it's hard to make a generic kit. By the time you do, the volume demand for such a kit is so low, you end up with having to price it in the $200-$300 dollar range to make your R&D and manufacturing costs back. For about the same money you can get an LCD monitor of similar size/resolution to the laptop display in an easy ready-to-use package.