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IBM's 5.2M Pixel Flat Panel
An anonymous reader writes "A current prototype of the Roentgen monitor offers a resolution of 200ppi (pixels per inch), with a total of 5.2 million full-color pixels, laid out in a 2,560 by 2,048 grid. Once the production version of the monitor is released, Greier said it will be able to display two full-sized 8.5-inch by 11-inch documents side by side.
The article also notes that the monitor needs a 4 head Matrox graphics board to drive it." Thats ungodly. Sign me up.
I think we should file a class action suite against Slashdot for the loss of our keyboards. How do these people sleep at night knowing they have cause do many gallons of drool to clog, short circuit and rust the keyboards of nerds.
The loss of earnings is staggering and the share human trauma of being unable to use you computer is just mind bugling.
Rumor has it that they have signed a deal with the guys making the "Happy Hacking Keyboard" to increase sales.
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Roentgen was the scientist who discoveredy X-Rays, which were called "Roentgen Rays" for many years. What the hell is in that thing?! :)
Pope
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It doesn't mean much now, it's built for the future.
Have a look at some of this stuff on very small (still quite high resolution) and very fast refreshing FLCOS displays. They have a 1024x768 display which is only 12.3x9.2 mm in size!!
Rather than trying to have complicated pixels from what I can make of it they build up colours by simply flashing the primary colours at you in different proportions, and with frame rates in the kHz bracket it looks very interesting.
Not unless you want to be hauling around a car battery with your now huge, 25 pound laptop....
Roentgen features:200 ppi 16.3 inch Active Matrix Liquid Crystal Display
diagonal viewing area
2560x2048 pixels (5,242,880 full color pixels)
Subpixels are 42 x 126 microns
15,728,640 transistors
1.64 miles of thin film wiring on the display
Aperture ratio of 27.3%
Backlight power of 44 Watts
The smallest feature is 5 microns
The prototype is 21 inches high and 16.5 inches wide, the total depth (including base) is 9.5 inches,
the thickness of the display is 2.5 inches
The weight is approximately 20 pounds
The power dissipated by the new display is similar to the power used by an 18-inch CRT display.
Not quite ready for mobile applications, apparently (even if they used a TransMeta proc) ;-)
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
I don't know if it comes from using PDAs and emulators for 8-bit home computers, but I'm actually starting to prefer lowish resolutions on small monitors. Maybe it's just the realization that I'm usually staring at a small window in the center of a large, expensive, EMF emitting monitor. Along the same lines, I'm starting to see anti-aliased text as *fuzzy* rather than smoother. I was using an Atari 800 emulator the other day, believe it or not, I really got into the sharp, chunky feel of the text.
They still seem slow to me, especially when dragging a window around.
I have the chance to play with a Sun Enterprise rackmount server with a flat panel LCD, it sure is nift looking, but the slow refresh rate is to distracting.
I imagine doing Quake or Doom on this would be lackluster, jsut a bunch of smeared pixels.
Are they every going to make the refresh rate better?
George
Roentgen