61-inch Wide Plasma Monitor 238
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?
Re:What is special? (Score:2, Informative)
Nitpick (Score:4, Informative)
Actually 61" diagonal. Nice anyway. This would be great for presentations: beats a projector hands down.
Nothing at all - here's 80 inch (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Where are the "True 1080P" HDTV screens? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Aw, MAN! (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Aw, MAN! (Score:2, Informative)
That's what, 25dpi? each pixel is 1mm x 1mm large? that must look pretty from up close...
Re:DLP is better... (Score:4, Informative)
Http://www.dlp.com [dlp.com]
Re:Aw, MAN! (Score:3, Informative)
Have you ever walked up to a movie theatre projection screen? The image quality really sucks. Sometimes it isn't the DPI that maters, but the size. Who cares if it's big pixels if you can sit away a few meters (better for your eyes anyway) and have a TV that's friggin' bigger than you are!
Re:Technically Valid '?' (Score:4, Informative)
Because it's hard to do (Score:3, Informative)
Like you can beat your 20" LCD easily. Viewsonic makes a 22" LCD that does 3840x2400. That's 2x max HDTV in each direction. So it's only 2 inches bigger than yours yet has over double the resolution.
So what gives? why doesn't you're have a similar resolution? Well because it's expensive as hell, that's why. That's like a $4000 monitor. Plus I'm betting you don't really care. I mean barring engineering uses, there isn't much use for pixels that small.
Similar with TVs. You don't sit nearly so close to them, so pixels can be larger. What's more, you are limited by your input. You are basically not going to find anything that's over 1920x1080 (the HDTV max) so there's little point to making above that.
Finally, plasma screens are a bit different technology than LCDs. What applies to one in terms of resolution feasability does not necessiarly apply to the other.
Plasmas are not good computer monitors (Score:2, Informative)
On another subject, it's interesting, but the Sony XBR-950 series of Plasma monitors run Linux in their media box (which is a video switch + runs media from a memory stick).
And no, I would not like a beowulf cluster of these, thank you very much.
Re:Technically Valid '?' (Score:3, Informative)
Since LCD and Plasma screens do not do horizontal and vertical refresh, it is impossible to use this technique. Using radio would be a better idea. I think some 3D mice (also called owls) used this technique.
So now you also know why you could hit the duck while aiming much to the left and right of the duck, while aiming above or below would not get you a decent meal - err, score. The horizontal frequency is much higher.