The early USB video adapters were quite expensive, and thus pretty underwhelming unless you were some sort of fanatical day-trader who HAS TO HAVE 15 SCREENS, DAMMIT! (Presumably many of those guys are now pawning their monitors.)

The sub-$US100-odd generic USB video adapters look like a decent deal, though (he said, on the basis of zero personal experience). They're only likely to be any good for relatively static 2D stuff, though, and if you're not running Windows (I'd go so far as to say "32-bit Windows"...), I would not be surprised if you had problems.

But then IAND (I Am Not Dan) :-)

... one of those devices that appears to have been constructed by putting all of the components and a teaspoon of molten solder in an asbestos bag and shaking vigorously.

Now imagine a whole line of people in a factory in China, all holding asbestos bags, sitting at desks strewn with components and tiny crucibles of solder. Beautiful!

In slightly DealExtreme related news, I just noticed that they have those plug-your-monitor-in-to-USB DisplayLink devices there for reasonably cheap. Have you had any experience with them?

Interestingly, the FM3 website has an illustration that shows a small buddha statue sitting directly behind the speaker inside the player - I can only guess that it's a bit like the little man in your fridge who turns on the light - in this case it's actually a little monk chanting through a giant megaphone.