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NEC Announces 61-inch Monitor
return 42 writes: "NEC will start selling 61-inch monitors next month. No pricing yet (if you have to ask, you can't afford it)." I'll promise to return it if NEC sends me one for review. Honest. Cross my heart. Update Chrisd sent us a related note, here's a 63" that got stolen. One of a kind of kind souvenir baby!
...that degause button...you may fry your knuts and cook the cat in one fell swoop!
If 7-11 can sell a 64-ounce big gulp, then it figures that things like this will follow. It's the Ford Excursion of monitors; a pixel-guzzling sport-utility-display.
Get 1200 red light bulbs, 1200 green light bulbs, 1200 blue light bulbs, a DAC, 4000 feet of 12 guage wire, and a 220 volt three phase power source.
Step one. Mount light bulbs in RGB clusters and wire them.
Step two. Use DAC to convert analog VGA signal to digital light bulb switch.
Step three. Connect to computer and power source.
Max resolution: about 35 x 35 Min resolution: about 35 x 35
What is the advantage of this monstrosity over a tabletop projector that costs a fraction as much and can probably use a bigger screen?
I'd be willing to put up with a small margin for the benefit of an arbitrarily large, relatively inexpensive display.
>something. Nevermind.
. . . If I put it at the other end of my office, I could work at my usual resolution without my glasses . . .
hawk
so, if you watch a regular movie converted (or even displayed?) in pal it will be 4 percent shorter? Jeez, if only I knew that earlier... anything that would have made "Sister Act II" 10 minutes shorter would be worth a LOT of money to me.
Main Screen Turn On!
I want icons as big as my head!
I want people to run away screaming as a rocket fills the entire screen in Quake3!
I want to be able to sit back half-a county away and still be able to read the text on the screen!
*Dances away to the tune of "Frank's 2000 Inch TV"*
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
Pioneer has been selling a professional model 60" display with d-sub and bnc rgbhv inputs for at least 18 months. This display is only 1" bigger.
To your execu-weenie 'nerve center' where you take future customers so they can ooooh and aaaaahhhh over your help desk process. Hang them on the wall so the customers can see them while they walk down the hall.
But at least it'll look good in the ads...
Ita erat quando hic adveni.
Reading the spec of this beast, it looks like the resolution and pitch really stink. You'd be better off using a traditional projector if you didn't need such a rectangular format.
Life begins at 1600x1200.
To support the PX-61XM1's monitor, NEC teamed up with nVIDIA Corporation
to develop a new chip, which makes full display of the wide XGA (1,360
by 768 pixels) and VGA (848 by 480 pixels) possible and enables CAD/CAM
detailed material to be displayed accurately without image stretch
oh puh-leeze, what about just using X and creating a custom mode line? Since when one needs a new chip to drive a non-standard resolution...
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How the hell did they sneak it out of the hall? They certainly didn't stuff it under their jacket! It'd take two hands to carry the thing!
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Now would be a good time for someone to start selling computer desks that this monitor could fit in.
Seriously, I'd like to get a better resolution than that spec so I could use today's apps and just push all the toolbars/palettes around AND have a great canvas size.
Of course I could just go multi-mon, but that's not as cool as this TekWar-like monitor.
Besides the resolution, i'm a little bummed that a plasma display should have such a low contrast rato. 60:1 isn't all that impressive.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
What I would like to see is a tileable display module (zero-width margins), with hardware to distribute the video to various combinations of tiles.
Then you could construct a custom display of whatever size and shape you like.
You could also maintain the display by replacing individual tiles (instead of replacing the whole display).
Anyone heard of such a scheme in industry?
...for the price you're paying, a screen resolution of 1365x768 which is 61", you could make do with a *lot* cheaper LCD projector shining output on a wall or whiteboard. At least for CAD/CAM work, that's what I'd do (assuming walking in front of the projector is an avoidable issue.)
--LP
Risin' above the city, blocking out the noonday sun
It dwarfs the mighty redwoods and it towers over everyone
I still remember when that delivery truck came down our block
What a lucky guy, I hear he got the last one in stock
And the neighbors are just green
They say, "That's the biggest screen we've ever seen!"
It's Frank's 2000" TV
Everybody come and see
Frank's 2000" TV
There's Frank's remote control, you can look at it but don't touch it, please
'Cause Frank's the one in charge and he decides what everybody sees
The picture's crystal clear and everything is magnified
Robert DeNiro's mole has got to be ten feet wide
Everybody in the town
Can hear those 90,000 watts of Dolby Sound
And I'm mighty proud to say
Now I can watch "The Simpsons" from 30 blocks away
On Frank's 2000" TV
Everybody come and see
Frank's 2000" TV
Everybody come and see
I'm gonna get one of my own real soon
It's like having a drive-in movie in your own living room
Whoa, hey now, hey no na na na now
Hey now, Hey now na na now
Frank's 2000" TV
Everybody come and see
You won't believe it
Frank's 2000" TV
Everybody come and see
Frank's 2000" TV
Get a 2-year warranty on parts and labor
Frank's 2000" TV
Frank's 2000" TV
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True. The spec sheet linked to in the press release puts it a nice 660 W. Whoa. I also find the resolution, 1365x768 as mentioned everywhere, a bit odd...
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but for those of us that are long sighted putting one on the wall across the room could be very comfortable ...
Nice...
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very easily when it's noticed that someone is trying to download the drivers.
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Wonder what the black market value of a 63", hand built, one of three in the world, display is?
I bet the mafia stole the display and gave it to a hacker who they pay to encrypt their email!
I feel like an eskimo talking about snow, because I can come up with thousands of ways to say "I want one of those!!!"
At first glance, the 1365x768 pixel dimensions might seem a little arbitrary or strange. (When was the last time you saw a display with an odd horizontal pixel count?)
Things get clearer when you realize that 1365x768 works out to a 16:9 aspect ratio, which is the standard for widescreen TV (and fairly close to the aspect ratio of most widescreen movies). It seems likely that the designers chose a nice "round" vertical pixel count (768), and simply multiplied it by 16/9 to get the 1365 that we now have.
Thing is, how "round" is 768, really? I mean, sure it's a nice multiple of 2^8, but consider:
High definition TV (US standard) has a vertical pixel count of 480, 720, or 1080. DVD has a vertical pixel count of 480. None of these will scale cleanly to 768. To get decent (but not great) picture quality, you'll have to do some fairly sophisticated bilinear or bicubic resampling, or -- in the case of a 720p signal -- be willing to tolerate a small black border in order to get as sharp a picture as possible.
I'm wondering why the designers didn't choose, say, 720, 960, or 1080 as the vertical pixel count instead. Any of these choices would have made for optimal image quality in at least one format. But as it stands, the display is a "jack of all trades, master of none" -- and needlessly so, at that.
Anyone care to enlighten me on this design decision?
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My dream of life-size pr0n can now be fulfilled...
Seriously, though, if you need a 61" display just get a projector. This will only find use in places where projectors aren't practical (kiosks and the like).
"...makes it ideal for mid-sized conference room...", yeah right. All of my company's conference rooms have projectors, and I'm damn sure they were a lot cheaper.
Pretty monitor, of course, but the price is going to be otherworldly.
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A monitor is perhaps one of the few areas in life where it's not the size that matters (well, so long as it's not tiny), but what you can do with it. In this case, you have a huge monitor, but can't do jack for resolution with it. And that's what I really need: a pixel as big as a frickin' beachball.
If a corporation is a personhood, is owning stock slavery?
what kind of refresh rates plasma displays are capable of?
"Prefiero morir de pie que vivir siempre arrodillado!"
That's easily fixed. Just buy four of them and arrange them in a square... ;)
I know it's satire, but that describes the M1A2 pretty accurately as well...
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Kill -9 'em all, let root@localhost sort 'em out.
Ok, I have to admit, seeing pr0n stars in almost life size would be kinda cool. However, it would suck to see the goatsecx image on that.
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Will I retire or break 10K?
I told him I need one to live.
He said I could have two but I have to put UT back on the server and unblock all porn sites.
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This ain't for Californians. Plasma displays' power consumption...
The main problem is that I had to get a license from the Atomic Energy Commision to switch it on...
- - - If the sun is a star, why can't I see it at night?
As I unpack my spanky new 61" with a fork lift and lovingly set it upon the concrete foundation I had to have installed, I wonder... Can the world be an more wonderful? No.
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...
I make my connections and give the monitor a once over to relish in this historical moment.
I depress the power button, my heart is beating fast....
The lights dim and go out.
The breaker box blows.
I am in the dark.
The world could not be more wonderful... I love this.
The phone rings.
I answer.
Not only have I blown my power, but half the grid is down.
Life is good.
At 12 inches away, all the pr0n stars seem to be life-sized, and it feels like you're finally getting that lesbian orgy you've always wanted.
Endless arguments over trivial contradictions in books written by ignorant savages to explain thunder in the dark.
You need some of these. Get a large array of true RGB LEDs and you're set. Of course the cost would probably be super expensive since I think they are still around $8/each in large volumes and you'd also have to build all the hadrware to control them.
for god's sake, will somebody talk about the pr0n possibilities?
Tokyo electronics company, NEC, released a huge 61-inch plasma monitor today. NEC spokesman, Keiichiro "Ketchup" Fujiwara, says it will alleviate much tension and feelings of inferiority among the workers at NEC. "We have long felt our NASDAQ symbol, NIPNY, is a racial slur and it has caused many employees to feel unmotivated," said Fujiwara. Then, while destroying an intricate model of New York City, he added, "This new monitor will force people to look at us differently, like Gojira rising from the deep to destroy Mosura." [ed: "Gojira" and "Mosura" are known in the western hemisphere as "Godzilla" and "Mothra", respectively]
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Projectors are a much cheaper way to run Quake. Now if they could get the same kind of resolution in dots per inch with that thing that normal CRTs do, and computers get so fast that you can run quake at a great frame rate, that would be cool.