Some form of external display

[BonerDoner]

I'd like to either assemble or buy some sort of led array or lcd panel that would display scrolling song information from either winamp or itunes, the kind of thing I would put on a shelf above my monitor. I'd be interested in some sort of panel, hopefully rather inexpensive, that would be maybe 8" wide. I really don't know what to even search for for this. Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks

 

[Lonyo]

This sort of thing: http://www.crystalfontz.com/products/634usb/index.html ?

 

[BonerDoner]

Thank you for the help Lonyo!
That looks good, but I was looking for maybe a slightly larger display, more easily readable from across the room.

 

[phisrow]

Something like http://www.adaptivedisplays.com/Pages/products1.htm might work if you need more size, though be warned that hobbyist support for those is likely to be a lot worse than for the smaller serial/USB LCDs.

You could also try using a fresnel lense to magnify the output from a small panel such as Lonyo suggested.

Your other option is one of the c. 8 inch LCDs used in car computer systems. With those, however, "inexpensive" goes right out the window.