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Holy heaven - huge curved monitor from Alienware

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What a joke...& a waste...terrible resolution, seams are awful & the price is ridiculous...I see this going nowhere...Fast...
 
Originally posted by: kylebisme
Originally posted by: JAG87
FYI its only 2592000 pixels, which is much less than 4096000 of a 30 inch panel. Its actually just a bit harder than 1920x1200. So no, you don't need anything special.
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The huge FOV means you wind up pushing a lot more polygons.
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Yeah, except that current video cards have way more vertex crunching power than they'll ever need. Pixels are the limitation, always.

The vertical res is way too low though. Could barely use it as a work monitor. Heck, it's impractical all around, it's a nice thing to have, but at the same time, so would a home arcade.

BTW, wasn't there some kind of 120" Imax home theater dome? That'd be way cooler than this.
 
If anything good comes out of this at all, I hope the joining of LCD panels becomes AT LEAST as seamless as the two lines of a Trinitron monitor were. I've had the idea of joining multiple small panels to make one cheaper giant one for quite some time. Still - this one sucks. I hope better models emerge from the smouldering ashes like a glorious phoenix. 😛
 
It's not LCD, not TN panel or any other, it's an LED lit DLP (3 of them to be exact) rear-projection system. Hence the 15" depth and seam alignment challenges.
 
My bad. I'll listen to the video next time. I remember a tech demo very similar to a flexible TN panel that sony or toshiba made that stretched into a super widescreen monitor.
 
Yeah, it seems strange gaming isn't listed as a targeted use. IMO that would be the ONLY use I could think of where it would be useful. As others have stated, its vertical resolution is just way too low to be a practical work monitor considering its price; $8000 (or even its cheaper predicted price of $6500) would buy several 30" screens.

Really, the only areas this thing shines in is its response time, and its curvature should help its utlra wide form factor to be more immersive - both attributes absolutely shout gaming goodness. Of course there's the pitfall of getting games to support such a wide resolution, but the ones that could would undoubtedly look amazing.
 
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