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[quote=Gizmodo]The Sighting: We can't have one of these Alienware curved monitors until the second half of this year, but until then, we've been abducted by its four nearly seamless and sharp screens of DLP goodness. Lit by LEDs, this 2880x900 monster is well over three feet wide and is said to have an other-worldly .02ms response time, great for gaming. The Soylent Green: You can see the seams between this monitor's four segments, but the Alienware humanoids tell us that flaw will be gone by the time this craft lands on Earth. The blacks look a bit washed out to our eyes, too. Price is yet to be determined.[/quote]
[url]http://gizmodo.com/341413/alienware-curved-monitor-looks-like-its-from-another-planet[/url]
There's a video in the link. I wouldn't mind having one of these.
Cool display, but that article is from early 2008, do they actually sell these yet or did it die?
Apparently they were supposed to be out last year. Doesn't look like they went anywhere with them.
I can't seem to find anything about it's release on google, so I'm guessing it died.
Thats ridiculous :350:
I :neckbeard:'d then I realized it wasn't out... then I :kratos:
It looks like a curvy CRT honestly.
The price range we are looking at is about 8k...
look up curved monitor on google
Get a cheap ass projector and fiddle with the optics, get a curved piece of paper and project on the back of it
Poor mans curvy monitor :v:
It doesn't curve too well. I can see the lines, looks like 5 small monitors put together
It's literally 3 DLP projectors in a box.... I can't even begin to imagine how much power that thing will suck from the wall.. No wonder they didn't produce it.
Basically like this but small scale:
[url]http://www.plastk.net/2009/01/warcraft-2.html[/url]
Unfortunately from an engineering standpoint, I think this wasn't very well thought-through. The benefit a curved seamless cave display are too small to justify the huge technical cost. If multi-monitor setups aren't that widely popular, how could you find a market for such a costly setup? Even more of an issue, how could your average gamer find the desk estate to hold such a monster?
Sure, it looks cool but it is just too impractical. It is like those concept cars you used to see at sponsored auto shows. You know, the kind that did all sorts of cool shit and looked like the batmobile, but everyone knew would never see any road.
it actually looks somewhat cool. too bad its alienware.
anyone els see thous 4 lines when the guy was playing crysis ?
Worlds biggest waste of money.
Maybe it's not out because the resolution isn't really supported (by a single cable) yet?
[i]Edit:[/i] Watching the video and seeing the monitor on completely disproves the above statement, feel free to rate me dumb.
You would need an ungodly powerful GPU for that monitor. Did anyone else notice massive amounts of lag in Crysis?
Yes.
Oh god I just watched the video those lines would fuck my perception to no end.
Bigger isn't always better. Would look cool with eve online.
Yeah it's on sale, and it's a piece of junk.
Couldn't they just do that with LCD? (ignoring pixel fault problems)
They could use OLED for sure though.
My graphic card would not be able to handle that resolution... :frown:
I saw this curved monitor. Supposedly it was around $5000.
DLP :barf:
I would love a curved monitor. Lot of space and optimal viewing. However, Alienware....ye no I'm good.
It's not actually from Alienware, there developed by another company and then Alienware buys them up and slaps logos on them, and the price is huge. Just like it's product.
DRUMROLL PLEASE!
[sp]8000USD[/sp]
[QUOTE=Robbazking;16950227]Lol triplehead2go suddenly got cheap not to mention a shit load higher resolution.[/QUOTE]
With annoying lines where the screens join.
Fuck's the point?
VR Goggles are more practical and cooler. :cool:
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