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Carzy Jon and his 12 Dell 30inch LCDs

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No projector can output 50 million pixels.

12 monitors running at 2560 x 1600 each = 49,152,000 pixels


This project is a waste of money though.


We ran an article yesterday about the Wall-O-Monitors that we set up at "Crazy Jon's" office with twelve 30-inch dell monitors, and it
turned out to be very popular, getting linked on popular sites such as Digg, Engadget, Gizmodo, and Makezine. Many readers commented with lots of various questions, and a request for a video, so here's a quick update to yesterday's article. (If you missed it, check it out here, it's worth the read!)


People were also asking about the machines that were powering these bad boys. The power behind all this is 3 state of the art machines, on Windows XP Pro (there was talk of running a Unix OS, but was decided against). As you know we put 2 NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX 512mb on a motherboard with 2 PCI Express slots in each machine. Each card can run 2 of the Dell monitors at 2560 x 1600, so each machine powers 4 monitors. The 3 computers are on a KVM switch with a remote switch run to the desk. The last touch is a Linksys Gigabit switch, so that we can run video processing software over the network between the 4 machines.




Users also wanted to know why Jon went with all the costly LCD screens instead of just one huge projector. The reason for not going with this is twofold. First, this room has a wall of windows which let in a ton of sunlight, which would make the projection harder to see. Second, projectors just don't offer the resolution Jon was looking for. (49,152,000 pixels!)

Many people noticed the five 30-inch Apple monitors on Jon's desk and asked why we didn't use more Apples for the wall. However, there were problems trying to extend the video cable; it just wasn't feasible. Extending video over such a far distance is a real challenge; the longer the distance that the information has to travel within the cable, the less chance it will actually work. However, this wasn't so much of a problem with the 30-inch 2560x1600 resolution Dells, so thats what we went with. We used the EXT-DVI-141DLB DVI DL booster cables for the extension.

Lastly, users wanted to know why the frames around the monitors weren't removed so that the space between each monitor could be slimmer. We also noticed the 7/8? frame all the way around. So a Dell monitor was totally disassembled to see if we could reduce the gap between the monitors. Unfortunately the answer was no, with an aluminum frame that surrounds the monitor just under the plastic molding, there is no way to reduce the space.
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Cool, but useless for just about anything I could think to do with it. Also, if you're gonna drop that much cash, at least research the products before hand... I'm sure there are nice LCDs out there that COULD be dismantled to get rid of the massive lines. WTF.
 
Neat looking, but not really useful. If he has the money to waste, who cares? I'm guessing he thought it was cool and played with it for about a week and now it just sits there running the fish tank screen saver all the time. I can see my projector fine in a sunlit room and it didn't cost me that much. You'd think if he can afford $20k to make the wall he could afford some friggin blinds for his windows...
 
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