Review on Elecrow Raspberry 10.1" HD Portable Speakers: 1920X1080P Resolution, 60Hz, Built-In Speakers by Stanley Reiterman

This is a great monitor for the Raspberry Pi Zero project I'm working on. With a computer that's barely bigger than my thumb, there's no point in carrying around a monster monitor. I've tried some of the little cheap screens that you can get by just plugging them into a Raspberry Pi and they found their place. Of course they have touch input, but the resolution is pretty low. Since I sometimes need to do PI development, this smaller screen is often not enough for my needs. So I was looking for a bigger screen with better resolution. I found this one with a resolution of 1920 x 1200 (as for the actual resolution, many screen vendors will lie and say it's an HD screen when it's actually a 320 x 240 screen which is 1920 x 1200 downsampled images - total lies in my books). and experienced two hiccups. First, the default menu is in Mandarin. Since I don't read Mandarin and thanks to the infinite wisdom of the developers, they selected all the menu items you need to change the language to Mandarin by default. I've seen this before, it seems like a really weird design decision - if you can read Mandarin you don't need to change the menu, if you can't you can't tell how to change it. Fortunately, here are some overviews that tell you how to change it in English. In the end I didn't really need the menu but wanted to see what options there were. As for the second catch. I plugged it in and the picture was really good. I was excited. Then something happened. The screen went black, made a little "bzzzz" noise, turned off for about a second, and then back on again. Then it happened again a few minutes later. I checked the HDMI connector and the power connector and everything is fine. I've been working on this for a while and it's ongoing. Much worse. So I tried it on PC and everything was fine. I wanted to put my review on hold until I got to the bottom of it. So I did some research. Then I found the following suggestion: Open a terminal window and run "sudo leafpad /boot/config.txt" (without the quotes, of course). Locate the following entries, remove the "#" symbol at the beginning of the line (if any) and change it to the following values: hdmi_force_hotplug=1hdmi_drive=1hdmi_mode=16disable_overscan=1 Save the file and reboot. It has worked wonders. There was a black border around the screen (which I didn't notice at the time) which also disappeared. So the problem was with the configuration on the Pi, not the monitor. Now I am very satisfied and will probably buy at least one more.