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My Christmas Wishlist Monitor
lawn_ornament writes " I found something that will go to the top of my Christmas wishlist. A huge LCD monitor and it can do about 3840 X 1024 resolution. Dimensions are 43.5
" x 11.5" - 478 sq inchs viewable. The monitor looks great and it could be yours for only $27,000. " /me wipes drool off of chin.
- A.P.
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For what it's worth, though, my (brand) new 21" Sony 520GS monitor weighs about as much as and has a shorter throw (less depth) than my old 17" Goldstar monitor did. Takes up less desk space and runs at 16x12. Plus it cost me $500. Can't go wrong with that.
- A.P.
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excuse me for sounding communist again on the subject of flat panel displays, but they're just way too expensive. The pricing is demand-driven, not cost-driven. It's the same sort of thing that makes Intel Xeon CPU's $4000, and a nearly identical Celeron $300. (not ACTUALLY identical, NEARLY identical - but the difference doesn't justify the cost difference, it's just price gouging).
I mean, maybe some of this is just sour-grapes because I can't afford one, but geez, can't they price one of these high-end monitors in the ballpark of "high-end" rather than, geosynchronous -orbit? I'd pay $5000 for one, but only someone who has way more money than they know what to do with would pay $27,000.
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Anyone fancy a game of Netrek, with full-scale viewscreen?
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Nope, the one at ALS was an actual single panel, and it looked to me like a plasma display. This is just 3 LCD panels tacked together in a rather cheesy way.
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For those of you that can't get onto the site...i must say...it does look impressive..i like the wraparound effect :) *drool*
Screen:
Type: Flat / Segmented
Material: TFT/LCD technology
Dimensions:
Screen: 43.5" X 11.5" (111 X 290 cm)
478 sq. inches of viewable
Image separation: 5/8" (16 mm)
Aspect ratio: 3.86:1
Resolution:
> 3.9 million pixels ( 3840 X 1024)
Pixel density:
> 8,200 pixels per square inch.
Inputs:
Video in:
HD15 X 6 (Main and Aux. each segment)
composite video inputs require a video to RGBS interface
Audio in:
RCA pin jack
Dimensions:
h: 18.5" (47 cm)
w: 48" (122 cm)
d: 17" (43 cm)
Weight:
Display: 78 lb. (35 kg)
Power Supply: 12 lb. (5.5 kg)
Shipping: 120 lb. (55 kg)
here. For the URL-impaired, here it is in plain test:
http://ffa17.ffanet.com/pv290/
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The discreetly hidden volume control is manual rather than electronic making it a breeze to reach over and turn down the sound
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The only thing that would make this thing more beautiful is removing the gaps between the panels. Sort of steals from the effect of the whole thing.
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I've been using 3 21" ViewSonic monitors for about 1.5 years. After that I developed an eye stigmatism. The refresh rates on monitors is much more visiable out of the corner of your eye (try it). Somehow my left eyelid would spaz out at random interval even when I wasn't look at at moniters. I started turning off the side monitors when I'm not looking at them, which is most of the time. About 2-3 months later my eye problem stopped.
This probably won't happen with LCD monitors, but be careful! If you are using normal monitors put them at the highest possible refresh rate they will do.
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When was the last time that anyone went to an imax theater and complained that the screen was too big?
When was the last time your went to see a movie that was playing in multiple theaters and tried to find the smallest screen the movie was playing on?
I think we're heading towards immersive computing, where your whole field of vision is your work/play or whatever you're doing. I like that.
but... as to the price, I could take 3 $1500 lcds, use Solaris or Xinerama and have a pretty decent clone of this setup and I could by a CAR with the spare change...
cool, but too expensive. Anyway, with windowing environments and digital video that don't REQUIRE a specific aspect ratio, expect to see more interesting shapes of flat displays.
... and why not have an ultra-hi-res VR headset? It's gotta be WAAAY cheaper, and more immersive.
Quake doesn't support strange resolutions like that, someone email John Carmack.
(would have been first post but I had to login)
I think sensible webmasters these days have scripts in place to remove any file that is linked to from slashdot. The reasoning behind this is that if they can avoid the slashdot effect on their server, then they can still play tty quake from their server console with decent frame rates :-)
Isn't this a bit too large for working, I think it will be more suitable for presentations and stuff like that than for e.g. webbrowsing.
It's so large you have to move your head a lot to see all of the screen, and that's not too comfortable to work with. or you have to put a great distance wich has basically the same effect as a closer, smaller monitor at a high resolution
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It should. I really don't know. I don't have the sack to run the snapshots. I do know that the major pint is that you can have a single desktop accross multiple screens. I have seen screenshots from rasterman where Elightenment does this.
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In a couple of months XFree 4 will be out with its neato multihead support. Then plunk down 12 G's for three of Apple's Cinerama flatscreens. 22" diagonal at 1600x1024 resolution each. More sceen real estate, at half the cost.
Or get a couple of the regular flatscreens. Then do one of the following with the savings:
- pay off *all* of your student loans
- hire a maid service
- feed and clothe orphans
- eBay eBay eBay.
- Pay some guy to wait in line for you for Matrix 2 tickets
- Build a school in some third world country
- Pay some guy to reload
- buy a car
- Strippers. Strippers. Strippers.
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Let's say really nice video cards are $200/ea and really nice LCD monitors are $1200/ea, that puts you at $4000 even to do virtually the same thing this $27,000 mostrosity costs. The only difference being that you'll have three seperate pieces of monitor instead of one.
That actually looks pretty much like what these guys did except they have a custom case they put the three seperate monitors into and built a custom connector so that you only have to plug one cable into your PC instead of three.
If you're any good at hardware, I bet you could even take your LCD monitors out of the plastic cases and come up with some way to mount them so they would be literally right next to each other and do it for a lot less than the $23,000 difference in price between buying one of these and making one....
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How long till we see the phrase at the bottom "This site best viewed at 3840 X 1024"? Maybe slashdot should detect the resolution size and if you have 3840 X 1024 then it'll render a special layout for you (and Rob will become your best friend).
Another difference:
Screen 43.5" x 11.5"
which translates to 3 screens that are 14.5" x 11.5", comparing to my 19" Sony 420GS which has a viewable screen size of 14 3/8" x 10 7/8"
A quick search on Yahoo finds that I can buy a Nokia 800XA for around $3k. It's dimensions are:
14.1" x 11.3".
So that puts the cost of an equivalent home made solution in the $10k ball park
I had a summer job with PV and got to play with it. One videocard runs up to four 15" or 18" monitors that can be put in a number of configurations. The monitors can be monitored over a net for heat and other info. I thought a 3-monitor wrap-around with a forth above would make a great flight simulator cockpit. You can see there products on ER, Chicago Hope, and the floor of the NY stock exchange. No, I don't still work there, but there're located in my home town, so buy their stuff. http://www.pixelvision.com/products/smartglas/desc ription.htm