Dell's Curve Monitor Is Something To Drool Over
Las Vegas (NV) - Dell’s Alienware Curve monitor is definitely a sight to behold. Crowds at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show lined up to see Crysis being played o the 3-foot wide curved screens. The Curve can display 2880 by 900 pixels and has an incredible .02 millisecond response time.
The concept behind the monitor is actually quite simple. There is a DLP rear projection unit and the picture is simply streamed to the curved screen which spans your frontal and peripheral vision space. Of course this all takes space and this thing is both wide and deep. No LCD thinness here!
Company officials said the monitor is a prototype and that the white border lines that you see in the picture will be fixed by the time the product ships.
Unfortunately, there was no mention of pricing, but we expect it to be very very expensive.
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I'm not confident with backprojection to be used as a computer monitor due to focus issues. But a curved OLED monitor, would sur be the ultimate gaming station. But that's probably in 10+ years or so, before it will anyway affordable by a ordinary mortal being like myself...
I'm not sure about having backprojection on a computer monitor, due to focus issues. But put me on the waiting list for a curved OLED monitor in the same size! But that would of course be affordable by a mortal being, like myself, in 10+ years or so...
Well, keep in mind that laser based DLP is coming toward the end of the year, or early next year. That may be a much better alternative for this kind of thing. Hopefully, we can see a good looking laser based version of this within 5 years, or slightly less (that won't break the bank). Laser based DLP is supposedly going to not be all that expensive once production ramps up and it's supposed to look awesome!
Here's a YouTube link to Laser TV stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=laser+tv