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Samsung Introduces 24-Inch LCD
floam (who got the info from MacUser UK
)writes: "Samsung, in whom Apple invested $100 million to further expand Samsung?s TFT-LCD flat-panel display production capacity, is now offering a 24" digital LCD monitor. The Syncmaster 204T offers support for resolutions of up to 1920x1200 pixels, a dual monitor support to toggle between input from two different monitors, support for both DVI Compliant and Analog input, and a 16:10 aspect ratio. The $8,000 monitor also supports picture-in-picture, or multi-screen functionality, which can display multiple windows on the screen and offers 'True Color,' 16.7 million color support. Supporting two full-size A4 pages, it delivers more than 170 degrees of conic view and the company says that 'all images regardless of input resolution can be scaled to 1920x1200, 16:10 WUXGA mode with unsurpassed sharpness and vividness.'" Yes, please. Imagine when we'll be able to scoff at the "only" 24" LCD screen being bundled with the cheap system at CompUSA ... reason to dream, anyhow.
samsung's website claims the 240T has a dot pitch of 0.27 mm. that's about the same pitch as a 14.1" XGA (1024x768) screen. so resolution-wise, it's not that great. compare this to sgi's 17.3" 1600sw flat panel (1600x1024 at 0.23 mm dot pitch), or the screen's on those 15" uxga a21p ibm thinkpads (1600x1200 at 0.19 mm dot pitch). for viewing text or graphics up close, smaller dot pitch is better (all else being equal:)
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At last, now my mock up of the Nebuchanezzer's bridge will be complete! Twelve copies of the Matrix screen saver and I'm good to go!
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Garbage. /Ipso facto/ my Eizo weighs 38kg, and the Nokia about the same.
I have a 21" Eizo CRT on my main home machine, and in order to have pinpoint convergence on the whole screen, it's about 24" deep! Likewise on the 21" Nokia monitor at work.
So firstly the monitor is far too close to the end of my nose, as I can't position it far enough back on the desk. (I only want a couple of inches more, I'm really just absurdly close at the moment.)
Also, in order for the CRT to be structurally sound with such large spans of glass, it needs to be quite think (in the same way dinosaur bones are relativelty thinker than crocodile bones which are relatively thicker than newt bones).
I have had to DIY reinforce my crappy desk at home to support the weight! (technology stuff is higher priority than furniture stuff, obviously). A flat pane display would weigh about a third of that. I could put it anywhere. I could even stick it on the wall...
Yes, these are just "convenience", but for some convenience is worth spending money on.
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Now scale as needed. After awhile the materials become too unwieldy. Imagine trying to keep two very flat panes of material at extremely precise tolerences apart over large distances in a consumer product... This is exactly what the manufacturers must do. Furthermore the error rate becomes so numerous the product becomes economically impractical. They probably could be made but the manufacturer is better off making more smaller screens for greater profit.
Even if someone does go for making them visualize the flexing in the front panel when the panel is moved around during manufacturing & shipping. You thougt the rainbows on a samaller screen were bad when you touched it consider trying to build a 24"+ pane that doesn't flex.
As manufacturing technologies improve the yields do go up and the defect rates are kept under ontrol but it's still a difficult market. There's also the problem that the market is a moving target: your US$250 million plant that you built last year for 12" screen is a has-been in today's 13" world, gotta recoup that money fast.
It used to be some manufacturers would only replace a screen if one had >2 defects within the radius of a US quarter coin.
Finally we're eventually going to run into things like bandwidth problems. It'll require some impressive technology to control some enormous number of pixels by some enormous number of pixels all with some high number of possible color combinations at the speeds required.
The more adventuresome will now want to jump in with predictions of distributed rendering and local processing etc.)
I don't read ACs: If a post isn't worth so much as a nom de plume to its author then I wont bother either.
One classic QA problem with TFTs (which, as far as I know, really aren't LCDs technically) is that there is one transistor per pixel. This means that if manufacturing fails for one of these transistors, you end up with a screen with a dead pixel. Obviously, this problem becomes greater as the screen size, and the number of pixels, increases. I've heard that laptop computers, which also use TFTs for their screens, are sometimes sold with a couple of broken pixels, and that is understood as being a normal and expected part of the deal.
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the official windows screensaver at Whatisthematrix runs in 800x600, if memory serves. On a larger, higher resolution monitor, it will be a little box of matrix goodness surrounded by black bars. Add that to the fact that flat panel monitors generally look like crap if not set to the resolution they are designed for, and you've got one basic choice... xmatrix on UN*X, which, while great fun and the screensaver I use, is a basic hacked version which is not at all like the actual matrix code from the movie. (for instance, notice the lack of the "explosion-like" bursts of bright expanding squares as seen in the movie.).
Looks like its time for you to start coding up a newer better version of xmatrix, to be released for all us
insiders at Samsung have reported one problem relating to the quality of the screen image, pet cats have been found trying to pounce on and kill the microsoft office paper clip. Sadly now cat has yet to succeed
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Does anyone actually have a Java program designed to control air traffic, or for the operation of a nuclear facility?
IBM's T210, supposedly shipping in May, is 20.8 inches and 2058 x 1536, for about $6000. It's mentioned in this article: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-201-4963181-0.htm l?tag=mn_hd
If those stinking CRT cops come for my monitor I'll fight them to the death. If I throw my old monitors at them then I can say that they are actually weapons and therefore protected under the second ammendment.
I'd be reluctant to spend $600 on a lower end one to find it fuzzing out after two years. This would make them rather more like "renting" than like "buying"... :-(
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On close examination, you could see that the vertical in the letter 'I' in Microsoft Word was blurred across two pixels. So clearly it was an analog connection.
Digital interfaces are the solution. The Apple widescreen monitor, which uses a digital interface, was the most common monitor at the show.
Remember folks, that's a 16:10 aspect ratio, not 8:5. That's twice as big!
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