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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?
You hear all this buzz about HDTV screens, being Plasma or LCD etc etc. But when you look at the specifications they are never True 1080P ready. I want a widescreen display that can do 1920x1080 at 30". The closet thing is the samsung 240T (24" 1920x1200) but it is already a few years old. All the screens that came after always had a lower resolution. When you check the LCD screen manufacturers you will also not find screens that size, so .. where are they?
Although it's nice, guess it will be roughly 3-5 years before the price comes down to a level where the common public can afford. Most of us don't have that deep pockets....... :(
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I don't know why everyone has a hardon for plasma. Sure it's thin but it suffers from burn in and it runs fairly hot and the colors fade after a few years. DLP doesn't suffer from burn in at all, so you can play all the computer/pc games on it you want without fear of ruining your multi thousand dollar investment. Plus when the DLP light board goes out in 3-4 years just buy a new one for a few hundred and drop it in.
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its just going to be a very expensive pinboard
isnt the inherant fault in plasma screens is they lose 50% of their brightness in 3years ?
doesnt anyone make *anything* that will fsking last more than 3years thesedays
*yawn* I can wait. If I'm gonna have a monitor five feet wide, wake me when they get the resolution up to about 10240x7680. 100x as much detail is worth some serious money to me; bigger pixels are not.
What would I do with all that real estate? How about a couple dozen windows, none overlapping, each more detailed than what I have now? (Then I need to figure out how to touch-type with VR gloves....) There's a lot of low-level event detectors in the human visual pathway that are being wasted by our tendency to view computing processes through the tiny peepholes we call displays.
(Think about the mural display rooms in the opening chapter of Hogan's _The Genesis Machine_, or the Prime Radiant in Asimov's _Second Foundation_. Now, those are some *real* display hardware!)
Really at this point anything under 1080p is kinda half*ssed for a high resolution TV. -I would guess this mind frame would follow in the newest, fastest, best /. crowd- And yes, something that big with that low of resolution, would have pixels too largs to look at 24" from you face. It would look like those 17" lcd monitors that Dell ships out at 640 x 480... how many time have you gone to help a friend out on their computer and have to talk them into bumping up their resolution.... god why!
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well, this way they don't have to commit to a huge production of the product before they're assured that:
A. the product is actually going to sell
B. the product isn't going to require a major recall.
if they produced 10,000 of these, distributed them to 39 countries, then found out that they have to recall them, replace them all, and have a PR nightmare, they're easily going to be out whatever extra they made from the mass distribution.
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If my 20" LCD monitor can do 1600x1200 why is it that a 61" can't do 4 times the resolution?
This way I could have files spread all over it, each with a font size that didn't hurt my eyes.
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