61-inch Wide Plasma Monitor

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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday January 13, 2004 @01:49AM from the lickably-delicious dept.

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?

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Aw, MAN! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-13 01:49 · Score: 5, Funny

And I just bought a new 57-inch plasma monitor!
1. Re:Aw, MAN! by Walterk · 2004-01-13 02:17 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  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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2. Re:Aw, MAN! by iainl · 2004-01-13 03:26 · Score: 4, Interesting
  
  "If my 20" LCD monitor can do 1600x1200 why is it that a 61" can't do 4 times the resolution?"
  
  Because the difficulty with building a monitor, and number of duff ones they have to bin due to too many dead subpixels, goes up with the number of pixels rather than the size of the screen per se.
  
  1600x1200x4x4 (assuming you want 3 times res in each direction, to give the same dpi as you're used to) is over 92 million subpixels. So you need an error rate of around 10^-9 just to get a fully working screen. 1600x1200 monitors are scarily expensive as it is; ones with 16 times as many would just be obscene.
  
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Yeah, it's nice, but by KillerHamster · 2004-01-13 01:51 · Score: 4, Funny

can you play Duck Hunt on it?
No price listed? by badfrog · 2004-01-13 01:53 · Score: 5, Funny

Looks like if you have to ask, you can't afford it.
I want one of these .... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-13 01:53 · Score: 4, Funny

... 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.
Getting closer to what I'm looking for... by bc90021 · 2004-01-13 01:55 · Score: 4, Funny

...and what was featured in "Back to the Future" (II, I think)...

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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Nitpick by Mostly+a+lurker · 2004-01-13 01:56 · Score: 3, Informative

... 61-inch wide ...
Actually 61" diagonal. Nice anyway. This would be great for presentations: beats a projector hands down.
WHere do I put it? by apoch2001 · 2004-01-13 01:57 · Score: 5, Funny

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
1. Re:WHere do I put it? by doc_traig · 2004-01-13 02:43 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Perhaps I can put it on the balcony and use it as a beacon
  
  Set fire to it and I'll come help defend your condo.
  
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Where are the "True 1080P" HDTV screens? by rigolo · 2004-01-13 01:58 · Score: 5, Insightful

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?
1. Re:Where are the "True 1080P" HDTV screens? by gr8_phk · 2004-01-13 02:07 · Score: 4, Interesting
  
  "But when you look at the specifications they are never True 1080P"
  Yea, and the sales people always say "oh yes, it displays all the HDTV resolutions". So then I point to the Samsung DLP set that says everything is converted to 720P (most don't even give a screen resolution) and it clicks for them that receiving and displaying are two different things. I asked a guy at best buy if they are trained to avoid that topic, and we were done talking soon. Deliberate deception?
2. Re:Where are the "True 1080P" HDTV screens? by mattACK · 2004-01-13 02:08 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  First read this. Then check out this puppy. Droolworthy.
  
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Re:What is special? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-13 01:58 · Score: 4, Interesting

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.
DLP is better... by dane23 · 2004-01-13 02:01 · Score: 3, Insightful

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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1. Re:DLP is better... by LurkerXXX · 2004-01-13 02:23 · Score: 4, Informative
  
  No, DLP (Digital Light Processing) is used for BOTH rear and forward projection. The original poster is erroneously thinking it's for forward projection only, and you are mistaking it for rear projection only. The technology can be (and is) used for either.
  Http://www.dlp.com
Projector by donnyspi · 2004-01-13 02:02 · Score: 4, Interesting

It seems to me that at this size of over 5 feet, maybe a nice projector would be better.
Re:What is special? by da3dAlus · 2004-01-13 02:02 · Score: 3, Funny

"equipped with "Enhanced Split Screen"" ability"

It's obvious, displaying games AND pr0n at the same time!
Sheesh, think man!

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how many... by VEGx · 2004-01-13 02:02 · Score: 3, Funny

how many pr0n sites could you have open then at the same time? [inches? what's that? translate it to something I understand]
Specifications by earplug · 2004-01-13 02:03 · Score: 5, Interesting

>> 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?
Nothing at all - here's 80 inch by swordboy · 2004-01-13 02:07 · Score: 3, Informative

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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"who wouldn't want it in their office?" by mwood · 2004-01-13 02:20 · Score: 3, Insightful

*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!)
While big is nice... by ennerseed · 2004-01-13 02:21 · Score: 3, Insightful

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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Re:What is special? by the_consumer · 2004-01-13 02:28 · Score: 4, Funny

You're mixing English and Metric units. Don't try to watch this TV on Mars.

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Re:Technically Valid '?' by Oliver+Wendell+Jones · 2004-01-13 03:15 · Score: 3, Informative

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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