One huge Screen?

[Ilion Sturmlied]

Hello,

my boss and me just had a strange / good idea.

What about using a HUGE (30+) TV and Maximizer to run 5 WOW windows?

I have not experiance with this but maybe the resolution will be a problem?

[Wilbur]

Resolution will suck. Thats whats gimped it.

You can however buy a 30" LCD Monitor which would have a huge resolution. Problem is they dont come cheap ;-)

[Ilion Sturmlied]

Uhhhhhh :shock: *drool*

6 30" LCD on 3 PCs =)

Naaaaahhhh! I stick with my plan of one 22" and 5 19"

[Wilbur]

Good idea sir ;-)

[Xzin]

<--- 6 30" on ONE PC

The thing I love the most is when people name drop their "HUGE" plasma and how a 50" or a 70" is gigantic. Then they run regular DVDs on it (which run at 720 x 480 (assuming NTSC). That is a third of a megapixel! A SINGLE 30" can display over EIGHT DVDs at the same time at native resolution!!! Why the heck would you want to blow that up to 50"?? Even with hardware filtering and smoothing - there is not enough physical information available to render a high resolution movie.

MAYBE if you are running HDTV but even then... the 30" DL DVIs blow that out of the water. Assume you have progressive scan HDTV (many are still interlaced, meaning you lose half of the vertical signal) - but assume you get the highest quality HDTV TV - 1080p - this is still "only" 1920x1080, so 2,073,600 pixels (2 megapixels). The 30" DL DVIs run at 2560 x 1600, or
4,096,000 (4 megapixels). And they are 30" - not 50"+.

So even if you had a 70" plasma or what have you.... what is the point when you only need something like a 21" screen to show that in native resolution? Anything else is just upscaled.

Seriously.

[Ilion Sturmlied]

First, Xzin! You are crazy!! =)

And I mean that as a good thing.

Second, you totally convinced me.

I still don't want to spend the money on 6 30' TFTs but the stupid idea of a huge HDTV plugged to my pc is gone now =)

[AndyB]

Pics or they don't really exist!


; :wink:

Okay, I'm sure they exist, but give us something to drool over.

[Xzin]

Pics?



Not mine. But those are 30" screens, powered by 3 computers.

To get a sense of scale, those neon fans behind the missing final screen are CASE FANS.

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I still find it odd that Xzin is STILL taunting us with potential images of his setup.... only to dash our hopes by using pictures from various other places. Xzin is a nerd tease :P

[AndyB]

Xzin is a nerd tease :P

LOL... too funny.