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50" Flat Screens from Pioneer
jon pointed us to an amazing screen. Its 50 inches, its flat, and at $20k you could buy a nice car instead. And 1280x768 doesn't seem like that many pixels for that much real estate. But still... yum. If anyone at pioneer wants to ship me a demo unit I promise to play quake on it and return it in a few years...
Every plasma screen I've seen, at NAB, CES, SIGGRAPH and CEDIA, has limited color depth. The earliest ones, like the Phillips, looked like a bad GIF. The most recent ones, like the Sony and Panasonic, look like a decent GIF. Until the plasma cells and drivers are fast enough to display a true 24-bits, they won't be anything more than trade-show curiousities.
On the other hand, the Sony true flat CRT that was reported here many months ago should be able to have 24-bit quality, longer life than plasma, decent black levels and true crt brightness levels. Plasma is a dead end.
"How perfectly Goddamn delightful it all is, to be sure" Charles Crumb
Ive got a flat screen monitor 40" wide
I believe yours says Etch-A-Sketch on the side
God Fucking Damnit
Wrong book, 1984 had the 2 way TVs where the excersise people bitched you out for not touching your toes.
Fahrenheit 451 had the Wall Screens, in fact Monetgue had 3 walls of one room done and his wife would sit stoned out in the room talking to the TV people...
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Given that you can get a projector with comparable resolution, is there any point in spending $20k on one of these puppies? I'd rather spend five grand on a projector and blow the rest on jelly babies.
You could just buy an Electrohome Marquee series digital projector. My friend has one he got for free. Sure, it's a bit bulky (about 4'x2'x3', 150 lbs) but it will project a 20' image easily. 1600x1200 and super bright.
These are the projectors they use in the lecture halls here at CMU.
Information About Dot Pitch
.28 dp monitor?
http://www.csf.org.uk/csf/dot-pitch/ dotpit.htm
Monitor Specs
http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/ home/pdphd.htm
The page says the pixel (or dot) pitch is:
0.858 x 0.808 mm
So the pixels are what, three times bigger than a normal
Its a 16:9 aspect ratio, so the 'normal' computer
monitor reses aren't the same as plasma monitors.
Plama monitors are not meant to be viewed close
up. Rule of Thumb 1.5 X width of screen is the
minimum distance one should be from the screen.
They look like crap when they are resized, or they
don't fill the entire screen when using NTSC, or
when connected to a computer.
Best viewed with a wide-screen Directors cut of
your favorite movie.