Quote Originally Posted by Xzin
The sad part that I just realized is that this is all doable in hardware, except for the split monitor issue. There are some "picture by picture" monitors out there in 24 and 27" that allow two inputs to be set "side by side" - but the 30" - no go.
I have two of dell's 2407fpw and the picture by picture mode isn't all that great. Out of the 5 inputs (vga/dvi/s-video/composite/component) you can only have dvi/vga on one side and the rest on the other and it shrinks the actual picture down.

So you could only have dvi shown on one side and then one from the other on the other side, you can't have dvi/vga shown at the same time, unless there is some work around that I don't know about.

But the picture shrinkage is pretty bad, looks like: