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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?
And I just bought a new 57-inch plasma monitor!
can you play Duck Hunt on it?
Looks like if you have to ask, you can't afford it.
... but everytime I mention it to my gf, she keeps telling me that "size isn't important", it's what you _do_ with what you got. She encouraged me to simply do more with what I have. Sigh.
No, it's not. Fujitsu make the PDS-6101 61" Plasmavision Slimscreen Monitor...why is this news?
...and what was featured in "Back to the Future" (II, I think)...
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What I want is a big screen monitor covering the wall that can be divided up into quadrants and can be used to watch multiple channels all at once, with a few quadrants for terminals and some Gnome programs! This brings us one step closer...
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Actually 61" diagonal. Nice anyway. This would be great for presentations: beats a projector hands down.
A 61" screen is larger than my living room given that home builders think someone can actually survive in a 400sqft hole called 'upscale living condominiums'. Perhaps I can put it on the balcony and use it as a beacon
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?
Ever had a chance to view some recent high quality projectors? I've got one in my basement. It's actually a couple of years old and it's absolutely amazing. And 61-inches is small. My screen is TEN feet measured diagonally.
I've noticed an evil plot involving Plasma and LCD tv's. Architects are purposely designing living rooms where it is impossible to place an old style back projection big screen tv.
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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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Hey Santa...I know it's a bit early...but I don't mind one of these babies for coming Xmas
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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It seems to me that at this size of over 5 feet, maybe a nice projector would be better.
"equipped with "Enhanced Split Screen"" ability"
It's obvious, displaying games AND pr0n at the same time!
Sheesh, think man!
Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion.
how many pr0n sites could you have open then at the same time? [inches? what's that? translate it to something I understand]
>> Current Rating A:6.7A(Max) G:8.0A(Max)
Am I reading this correctly? 6.7-8.0 amps? To protect the investment, is it possible to get a surge protector that can handle that kind of current for a decent price?
Furthermore, don't many houses run on 15-20 amp circuits? That just seems like a lot of power!
>> Speakers 9W+9W (6)
Where does the surround sound hook up at? Does it typically connect to the TV, or is it supposed to connect upstream somewhere like at the DSS dish, or DVD player?
So why does this come out AFTER christmas??
I'll finally have a large enough screen TV to make my evil supervillain's lair with my computer console that has way too many buttons.
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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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with different release dates for each region
Why do companies insist on doing that? Surly they'd make more money with a single release date? Would make advertising a lot simpler.
*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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You're mixing English and Metric units. Don't try to watch this TV on Mars.
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...DLP is a type of sandwhich. they are leaving out the mystery sauce ingredient, like so:
1) D
2) L
3) ???
4) P!
i'm sure you can come up with the true recipie for ingredient number three.
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No thanks, I spend way too much on paper towels as it is.
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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I have an understanding of plasma dispays. And soon I will have understanding of videocassette recorders and car telephones. And when I have understanding of them, I shall have understanding of computers. And when I have understanding of computers, I shall be the Supreme Being! God isn't interested in technology. He knows nothing of the potential of the microchip or the silicon revolution. Look how he spends his time: forty-three species of parrots! Nipples for men!
...Nothing interesting here. Just move along...
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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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.
You've got the gun technology right-- that's how modern lightguns work, but Duck Hunt and all NES gun games used a slightly different trick that MAY or MAY NOT work on plasma/LCD televisions. I haven't tried, but most likely it won't work.
Basically, there's still just a photosensor in the barrel of the gun but the sensor is calibrated to detect only white. When you press the trigger, the screen blacks out for a brief period and replaces targets with white blocks during the blackout. If a white block is detected by the photosensor, you hit a target. Games that have more than one target onscreen use slightly longer blackout periods with the white blocks staggered so as to detect which target had been hit.
I don't believe the NES gun used sync at all to detect hit location; it was pretty inaccurate as a result and prone to cheating.
I should know about the cheating-- I once played Duck Hunt on a black and white TV with the contrast turned all the way up. I couldn't miss-- at all.