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10 Panel LCD Displays
Alien54 writes "As seen on the Website: 9X Media offers the most complete line of multiple monitor products in the world including: patent-pending X-Top expandable multi-monitor displays that support from 2 up to 30 flat panels, X-Wall Video Walls, Multi-Screen servers, workstation grade computers, multi-head video cards and Multi-screen management software. Design your own configurations. I am drooling over the ten panel desktop display."
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Remember... Multiple Monitors Increases Productivity
*looks at 10 panel display*
WHOA!
His productivity's way off the charts!
Beautiful and amazing. Can you imagine flying a flight simulator on a 10 screen setup? Now - the challenge is how to convince the wife we really need this for our home?
-C...
A complete circular one of these, completley surrounding me, it'd be like another world. How long is it till they bring out films that are filmed from all angles for complete immersion?
I have over 70 freaks, do you?
Just check out his info page. He never adds anything of value, and karma whores in the most obvious ways. READ HIS INFO PAGE BEFORE MODDING, THEN MOD DOWN!
at least geek community should get it right!
a 10 Panel LiquidCrystalDisplay Display ?!
Now with a few TV tuner cards and some PC I can watch all of my favourite TV channels at once :)
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Looks like Matrox has found a neche mark for high performance multiple monitor graphics cards
I have over 70 freaks, do you?
Wow Cool
or dome theater at home. Maybe George Lucas alerady ordered one for his home. If not soon.
...that CmdrTaco posted this story in the hope that the company might send him some product as a thank you?
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I have over 70 freaks, do you?
Just how many complete pr0n/flight sim freaks are there out there with $155,799 to blow on these screens.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
Anyone remember the flight sim one?
/me drools
I think it just got owned...
Gah now I want one... put it on my entire desk...
n/t
The image processor handles only 1024 pixels vertical resolution. When you use the 20.1" version you get instead of 2x1200 pixels native only 1024 pixels visable. That will be an ugly screen. For pictures okay, but not for text displays. Stock brokers need a high resolution, and that are the people willing to pay for this kind of screens.
...and then you open more channels with Picture-in-Picture on each display, and your head explodes! ;-)
It just goes to show, even when all time consuming attention to detail is bypassed by sheer laziness that burocracy will always find a way to slow things down to their healthy speed.
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ten twenty-four... hundred
my karma will be here long after I'm gone
I'm sorry, but there are a lot cooler ways to spend 200 grand then on a 10 LCD display.
the challenge is how to convince the wife we really need this for our home
You mean instead of your home. Have you looked at the prices?
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Drooling over that?
Yuk! Look at those ugly borders!
This one is much better. Unique in fact - they use lenses to craftily spread the pixels out, covering the panel edges..
$155,799 holy shit :-( i want
Lets see... A fully decked out x9 system has about 94371840 pixels. How many rods and cones can there possibly be in a human eye? 10^14 neurons in the brain, brain is 3 dimensional and the size of my two fists, retina is 2dimensional and fits in the back of my eyeball.... I think we are going to start making monitors that add pixels to your eyes soon.
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Considering that their most basic entry - a 2x15" system - costs $2399, I would have to say that they obviously don't plan to sell many of these...
I can go on eBay and buy 15" LCD monitors for $200 a piece (or less) and that for another $200 I can get a custom aluminum monitor chassis built, these things are nothing but very overpriced toys...
Ron Gage - Westland, MI
For that much money, they'd have to have: better response time, better contrast, better brightness, and have the lcd sections flush with each other.
yeah these things look cool.. but comeon.. $10,700 for 3 wide 20' digitial? And look at the brightness and contrast ratings - all well below mid to higher end units available today. You can go buy 3 formac 20" platinums for 4k (or even cheaper with other brands), and they fit together quite closely (disclaimer: I have 2). In fact, there are other brands such as planar whos units are cased even better for edge to edge contact. And if you *really* need to stack them, I'm sure you can build a custom housing for vastly cheaper. Also dont forget that many video cards allow you to turn the monitor around the tall way as well.
So "LCD Display" is redundant.
You don't see the entire movie screen at once, you focus on different parts of it, and only make out detail in a small area at a time.. you might be surprised how small. That's the center of your vision. Torwards the edges, and I don't mean just the very edges, you sense motion better, light and dark better, but not color.. and you lose detail as you go to the edge.
Your brain creates a nice image in your head for you to work with... but it's really nothing like a tv screen, or a computer display.. it's not pixel based, your vision isn't pixel based
It's difficult for many people to do.. but try to stare straight ahead and notice where your eyes are in focus, and not... it's difficult, because you are used to having your eyes follow where your brain puts it's attention... but with some practice, you can convince your eyeballs to stay put while you try to "see" what is in the out of focus areas.
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Man, it'd be great to flip this bastard on end and play Mars Matrix or any arcade-perfect top down port! You'd have to stand a block away though.
I am drooling over the ten panel desktop display.
You better be careful. Drooling over electrical equipment is bad for your health.
Actually most of those neurons are in the cerebral cortex, which is a flat sheet. It's the white matter (mostly nerve fibres providing interareal connections) which make it three-dimensional. Total area if you laid the cortex flat would be about two square feet. It is also a bit thicker than the retina. In any case, the point about having more pixels than the eye can resolve is lost if you are displaying a really big graphic and you lean close to focus in on small areas. I can really see the use of these for laying out a big software project in a graphical development environment...
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Just like the other site, which has been debunked.
I could be wrong though. But the design and the feel of the whole site is totally unprofessional.
Look at the prices of LCD panels dropping, just buy up 3 and design yer own case for it in a CAD app and go to the local plastic moulding warehouse and get them to make u one, would work out cheaper. This is rip of central.
YOU DECIDE!
Why does there need to be a bezel between the LCD panels? Is it possible make LCDs where the glass from one panel will touch the glass from the next? Granted, at that point you're no longer talking about creating a system from off-the-shelf components, but if I'm about to spend $150k on a setup like this, I hope that price will include *some* cusomization.
Nice flat panels and all, but haven't macs been able to do this since, like, forever. Does nobody else remember Radius Pivot monitors. Full A3 resolution! Rotatable monitor that maintains orientation of the image. The MacOS supported multiple monitors for as long as I can remember (System 6?). I remember an early version of F-18 demoing at macworld with a 3 monitor setup, and I think we managed to trick out a 9500 with PCI video cards for a museum installation once.
...to waste on 10 monitors, can someone please mod the other 8 redundant? ;)
Wow, not a troll either.. looks like great stuff.
Screw seam-filled LCD cheapness, I want 200+ inch LCD's!
You could buy a projector or large plasma screen for less money, and it would be roughly the same size. Or, as others suggested, make your own out of 17" LCD screens and a custom frame, would cost a lot less than the 150,000 theyre asking for their top end system.
To run that thing would also put a lot of strain on your system, (large amount of memory to hold all screen resources etc) but I guess you would only use it if you felt you needed it, and then the tradeoff would be worth it.
But yeah, just get a projector or large screen, comes with no stupid borders too.
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The technology for "wraparound displays" has been in development for some time. I've certainly seen demonstration models (not personally, alas, but in print and on-line) for 40+" monitors that basically fit on a desk and wrapped around so a user positioned at the desk could look at all parts of the screen without distortion. I think it was in one of the megacorps' "office of the future" concept shows, though it wouldn't surprise me at all if companies like SGI could set such things up for you today if you asked.
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Surely this sort of stuff is more for managing multiple displays in airports and train stations than the business user?
-- Mike
I recommend the Ergotron Paraview stand system over the 9X Media setup. With Ergotron, you can buy your own inexpensive LCD's to make your multi-monitor setup the way you like it. I have been using the 33-095-200 with three Samsung 191T, and really like it. This option is a few thousand less than the 9X setup and works just as well.
Ahhhhh! I see now! Goatse.info must be a mirror of slashdot... only without the shameless articles advertising stuff on slow news days.
wasn't this already on /. months ago
If LCDs could be stacked side by side without any bezel, it should allow creating very large screen. It might also reduce costs of existing screens since I believe the cost of creating an LCD is worse than linear in its size.
So - exactly why do LCD displays require a surrounding bezel? I'd expect that for for both strength and connections it should be possible to attach to the LCD from behind. Or at least reduce the width of the bezel to something much lower (say, 1mm).
This looks strikingly similar to the Liebermann Inc hoax.
Why the photoshop jobs? You'd think a company capable of making these devices might be a little interested in actually proving their existence.
I.E., be wary which amateurish websites you make $10000+ credit card transactions with.
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Nah, you buy a projector instead.
:-)
134 inches diagonal of pr0n in your living room, I mean, MAN! It's a new experience
All this for just, like, $1k today. Plus some $100s for a good projection cloth.
That way you're out much less than if you buy one of these screens. Plus, you have one hell of a movie rig (which serves as an excellent official excuse).
(As for the flight sim freaks, I'm not really sure... but pr0n freaks probably outnumber them anyway...)
10 screens...*getting faint*
per screen resolution up to 3840 x 2400
So 10 screens as they show is a resolution of 19,200 x 4800. That's 92 Megapixels. That's 117 times as many pixels as a 1024x768 display.
All of a sudden your Geforce whatever is looking a little lame.
It's still pretty cool.
People who think they know everything really piss off those of us that actually do.
Let's put things into perspective...
Would you rather have a 10 panel LCD system or a brand new 2005 Ford GT40?
I've got a bucket of change I'm saving for the GT40. I'm going to buy a used one when they're one year old. Not sure how, but I am.
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At my place of work we set up multi-monitor systems all the time. We make 12 monitor "video walls", and every one of our desktop systems have Matrox Millenium g450's with dual heads. It's really not that difficult.
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Imagine trying to find your mouse pointer on 1 of the 10 panels. To have reasonable pointer resolution, you would need a 1 meter wide mouse pad.
Getting closer. All it needs is a nice computer chair suspended in a spherical surrounding display.
:)
How's that for a FPS?
How is this news? This company, and that product, have been around for a long time. Seems like advertising isn't just limited to the banner ads here anymore.
Turn off the computer and go get a girlfriend. Vinyl or four-leegged doesn't qualify.
We used STB multi-monitor cards back in the mid 90s, but by the time they inexplicably dropped the line (and subsequently imploded), a few flat-panel vendors had started supporting multi-monitor displays from a single video card.
Yeah, right.
THEYRE COMING FROM ALL SIDES!
When you can pick up descent and cheap DLP 1024x768 Rear projection displays that can do 2000 ansi, why not just use a nice rear projector for your desktop wall.
Additionally if you want more resolution or immersion, buy a few rear projectors and use a circling curtain screen (Can be made with sheets even)
Not only would you have a seamless display, but it would be cheaper, and have a larger screen.
Many of our techs have used rear projectors for large display projects - even tiling them for seamless displays.
Also with the quality of even the low cost models (under $2000) you can make a quite impressive desktop for yourself. Especially when your eye stops being able to discern the pixels at certain distance - even if you are just using a 1024x768 projector for a flight sim or other immersion project.
I would recommend trying rear projection technology, and if you want the display to come at you, use a screen like the 'floating displays that were on here a month ago' and make the rear projection devices into front projection.
So instead of wasting $50,000 just pick up a couple of rear projection devices (LCD or DLP) and you can get a nice large display with a credible resolution.
Looking through the FAQs and it is looking less and less attractive to the non-business user (as if the price wasn't enough disincentive).
Taken from the FAQs:
10) Can I watch a DVD movie or video on the entire display?
Each panel of 9Xmedia's desktop displays can take a video signal from a DVD or VCR player. But, DVD movies would not spread across all three panels. For full wide video or DVD presentations, it can be run from three synchronized DVD players or from a multi-channel video server and specially formatted media would have to be created in order to "fill" the display. This will be ideal for entertainment, museum and point of purchase applications but is not practical for the standard user.
9) Will all software be able to operate over the three screens?
Exceptions include a number of game applications that have been hard coded to run at specific sizes and resolutions. Another notable exception is Microsoft's PowerPoint. Although you can have multiple windows up during the preparation for a slide show, when you tell PowerPoint to run the slide show, it plays the slide show on a single output channel in a single screen aspect ratio.
Their 3 x 19" model is priced at $8200. Ouch.
An extra wide monitor (1920x1200) from Sun will run you about $3,600, and a pair of ordinary 19" LCDs costs about $600 each.
Heck, you could get a 3 x 18" multiscreen direct from Dell for about $2900.
I'm wondering about the pricing of these two ultra high resoultion monitor systems.
10 x 20.8"
Digital Color
10 x 20.8"
Digital Grayscale
Both offered for $63,599. Anybody know why one would choose a grayscale screen over a color screen offered at the same price?
The "Aggregate Resolution" appears dodgy. Two rows of five 3840x2400 monitors should be 19200x4800, not 12800x1024. If I was paying a quarter million Australian dollars I'd like to think I'd know a little better what I'm actually getting.
Put panels surrounding you and get DOOM running. First person shooter and see mutants coming up from behind you. Add Surround sound...
If only you could put multiple differnet-sized displays in that chassis. It'd be a great setup upon which to find out if the only winning move really is not to play.
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