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NEC Announces 61-inch Monitor

Posted by Hemos on from the dear-lord dept.

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!

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  1. One big monitor by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3

    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.

    1. Re:One big monitor by PopeAlien · · Score: 3

      Yeah great, Now I have to worry about RSI in my neck from looking back and forth across the expansive face of this monitor. But where can I get a four-foot wide keyboard?

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  2. Build Your Own 120 Inch Monitor! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3
    Directions:

    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

  3. Re:Still waiting... by CaseyB · · Score: 3
    I've been convinced for a while that this is the way to go in the long run. Find the sweet spot in production display size (maximize the size vs. yield tradeoff to get the cheapest price per cm^2) and let users buy as much as they need or want for a given application.

    I'd be willing to put up with a small margin for the benefit of an arbitrarily large, relatively inexpensive display.

  4. Only one thing to say about this mini-Jumbotron... by glomph · · Score: 5

    Main Screen Turn On!

  5. We don't need no STEENKIN resoloution! by Chas · · Score: 5

    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!!!

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  6. Big? by Jeffrey+Baker · · Score: 5

    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.

  7. 61" monitor (21" viewable) by tuffy · · Score: 5

    But at least it'll look good in the ads...

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  8. not impressive by novarese · · Score: 3
    size doesn't matter, resolution matters:

    The new model which features a 1.05 million pixel monitor (1,365 by 768 pixels) with pixel pitch of 0.99mm

    Life begins at 1600x1200.

    1. Re:not impressive by rkent · · Score: 3
      Life begins at 1600x1200. Amen. And the dot pitch is .99 mm as well. Which means this thing is really just a glorified projector, useful only for presentations in meetings and such.

      LOL! Oh yeah, just occurred to me, that's all you'd want it for. Like someone was gonna use a 5-foot plasma screen at their desk or something. Nevermind.

      Still, seems like a souped-up 1024x768 LCD to me.

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    2. Re:not impressive by Bender+Unit+22 · · Score: 5

      size doesn't matter, resolution matters:
      Hmm, I might be able to use that one tonight.
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    3. Re:not impressive by GeckoX · · Score: 3

      Ever heard of the right tool for the job?

      This is obviously not the monitor for you, but it is for many many uses.

      Bigger means more people can view it at the same time from greater distances.

      Better resolution meanst that you get more detail out of it.

      Quite often these don't go hand in hand, since one doesn't necessarily require the other.

      These will be great in classrooms and the like in which case, what would be the point to doubling, tripling or greater the resolution? Little bobby at the back isn't going to care, he's still just happy that he can se it at all. Also, the only reason the school could afford one is because the price didn't go up exponentially because of the higher resolution which requires _much_ higher processing power etc etc etc.

      Your's will be coming some day, but this just isn't it.

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  9. Still waiting... by lildogie · · Score: 3

    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?

    1. Re:Still waiting... by Jart · · Score: 3

      If you like red (or whatever. I like red) on black you can get big fat LED arrays in panels. Tile your wall. Play something vector-graphixy like Battlezone. Slammin!

    2. Re:Still waiting... by petard · · Score: 3

      This is probably what you want. At a mere $22k, it's probably cheaper than the plasma display too. :-)

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  10. Agreed, plus... by LinuxParanoid · · Score: 3

    ...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.)

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  11. The 63" monitor thieves will be discovered... by Spunk · · Score: 4

    very easily when it's noticed that someone is trying to download the drivers.

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  12. Words.. by supabeast! · · Score: 3

    I feel like an eskimo talking about snow, because I can come up with thousands of ways to say "I want one of those!!!"

  13. Life size porn? by 13013dobbs · · Score: 3

    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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  14. Hallelujah! No access controls! by yerricde · · Score: 3
    From the data sheet:
    4. Not designed with copy protection
    Hallelujah!
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  15. I have informed my CIO of this innovation by ellem · · Score: 3

    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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  16. I've got a beta version.. by wardomon · · Score: 4

    The main problem is that I had to get a license from the Atomic Energy Commision to switch it on...

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  17. If you really want a large LED dsiplay by Sycraft-fu · · Score: 3

    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.

  18. Re:Not for the desktop though! by glenkim · · Score: 4

    for god's sake, will somebody talk about the pr0n possibilities?