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61-inch Wide Plasma Monitor
Mister.de writes "NEC Plasma Display Corporation today announced the launch of two 61-inch wide plasma monitors from the PlasmaSync(TM)61XM2+series (a grey bezel model, and a silver bezel model) that are equipped with "Enhanced Split Screen" ability - a high quality, high performance Double Picture function. Sales will commence on February 1st, 2004 to meet various uses mainly in multimedia presentation and public display applications with different release dates for each region. NEC Plasma Display Corporation is targeting 25% of the world commercial market share with its 11 model line up. See the source with picture or Read the Main Specifications." The 1365x768 resolution definitely means this is more TV than Monitor, but who wouldn't want it in their office?
No, it's not. Fujitsu make the PDS-6101 61" Plasmavision Slimscreen Monitor...why is this news?
Actually 61" diagonal. Nice anyway. This would be great for presentations: beats a projector hands down.
LG thought that they were going to steal the show at CES with their puny 65" model but then Samsung dropped the bomb with an 80 incher... 1920x1080p... Wow...
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First read this. Then check out this puppy. Droolworthy.
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Actually, Samsung have released a 63" Plasma TV a while ago. Their frontpage displays their 80" Plasma TV with a resolution of 1920x1080. Yes. Eight Zero Inches.
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That's what, 25dpi? each pixel is 1mm x 1mm large? that must look pretty from up close...
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The specs say 0.891x0.994mm.
Have you ever walked up to a movie theatre projection screen? The image quality really sucks. Sometimes it isn't the DPI that maters, but the size. Who cares if it's big pixels if you can sit away a few meters (better for your eyes anyway) and have a TV that's friggin' bigger than you are!
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I saw on CNN Headline News during one of their tech segments, they were displaying the game on a large plasma display, but the player was having to shoot at a very small (10" or so) color monitor because, as they said, the gun does not work on the plasma display.
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The more pixles you want to pack onto something, at any size, the harder it is. Plus it's not like most people care so it's a waste of money.
Like you can beat your 20" LCD easily. Viewsonic makes a 22" LCD that does 3840x2400. That's 2x max HDTV in each direction. So it's only 2 inches bigger than yours yet has over double the resolution.
So what gives? why doesn't you're have a similar resolution? Well because it's expensive as hell, that's why. That's like a $4000 monitor. Plus I'm betting you don't really care. I mean barring engineering uses, there isn't much use for pixels that small.
Similar with TVs. You don't sit nearly so close to them, so pixels can be larger. What's more, you are limited by your input. You are basically not going to find anything that's over 1920x1080 (the HDTV max) so there's little point to making above that.
Finally, plasma screens are a bit different technology than LCDs. What applies to one in terms of resolution feasability does not necessiarly apply to the other.
Primarily because they suffer from burn-in. How would you like a permanent "Start" button in the lower left or a permanent menu bar from your mac?
On another subject, it's interesting, but the Sony XBR-950 series of Plasma monitors run Linux in their media box (which is a video switch + runs media from a memory stick).
And no, I would not like a beowulf cluster of these, thank you very much.
Well yeah, you could not play duck hunt on a plasma screen, because the gun does not shoot. Instead it receives the light emited by the screen on a photo-detector. Since it is synchonized with the horizontal and vertical frequency it knows where it is aiming (it sees the electron beam).
Since LCD and Plasma screens do not do horizontal and vertical refresh, it is impossible to use this technique. Using radio would be a better idea. I think some 3D mice (also called owls) used this technique.
So now you also know why you could hit the duck while aiming much to the left and right of the duck, while aiming above or below would not get you a decent meal - err, score. The horizontal frequency is much higher.