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hyrichter
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Posted: 26th Mar 2006 04:34 Edited at: 26th Mar 2006 04:35
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A friend just showed this to me, and I instantly fell in love with it. Only trouble is, it's $12,000. But still, that would be one hell of an awesome environment for development. Actually, I'd be happy with just one of those monitors, but until I win the lottery, I'll have to be happy with my 21" CRT at home and my 19" flat screen at work.

Edit: I forgot the link to the site.
http://www.digitaltigers.com/index.shtml


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Saikoro
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Can you imagine the processing power it would take to use those screens efficiently? Unless you wanted to maximize DBP all the way so it expands over all six, then set your font to like 74 and have fun.

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Lukas W
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Posted: 26th Mar 2006 12:06 Edited at: 26th Mar 2006 12:07
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i jusr recently connected my 21" widescreen HDTV and my 21" 4:6 CRT Monitor and started to play Halflife 2.

i got a resolution of 2800x1024 or something. it was fun.
but because it was a mixup of 16:9 and 4:6 screens the picture got stretched on the 4:6 screen so it was kind of annoying :/

pretty fun though, i felt like i really was gordon, and with the 5.1 sound it felt so realistic.

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Neofish
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Posted: 26th Mar 2006 13:19
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i've never had better that 19" crt, stop complaining!

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TDP Enterprises
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Posted: 26th Mar 2006 15:12
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i have a 14inch monitor....but hey, its a flat panel

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hyrichter
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Posted: 26th Mar 2006 20:41
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How can you fit anything in 14"? I had a 14" though about 6 years ago, but was glad when it died so I had a good excuse to buy a 21"

I'm not complaining, Neofish. It's just wishful thinking.


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TDP Enterprises
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Posted: 26th Mar 2006 21:08
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the 14inch lcd is better than the 16inch crt that i got in...ohhh idk, like '96 that had "low radiation" as one its main features

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re faze
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Posted: 26th Mar 2006 22:13
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radiation smadiation, who cares, crt is better than flat panel any day. crt's last longer and they dont hurt your eyes as much.

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Quote: "and they dont hurt your eyes as much.
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whatever you say, grandma

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Megaton Cat
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Posted: 26th Mar 2006 22:22
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I'll stick with my normal 19inch LCD. : /

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Posted: 26th Mar 2006 23:08
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I don't like it. It looks like a picture of the sky, and a huge Stick insect has decided to hump the camera.

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Benjamin
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Posted: 26th Mar 2006 23:16
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I agree. I wouldn't want a monitor with huge lines running across the front.

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Posted: 26th Mar 2006 23:23 Edited at: 26th Mar 2006 23:25
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I just set up another monitor, Two side bide side and got rid of the horrible tv set Heres a better one!

Browse through these: http://www.realtimesoft.com/multimon/gallery_browse.asp?date=desc&nummon=true&mon=desc
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Posted: 27th Mar 2006 00:03
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19" lcd rocks
Viewsonic VX-924 (3 ms)

21 would be even better but thats alot of dosh

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I have a 15" lcd,

I don't think i would be able to fit that one on my desk somehow ! ! !
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Posted: 27th Mar 2006 00:14 Edited at: 27th Mar 2006 00:16
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I use two monitors at work, and it's fanstatic. I cannot believe how long I've been working with just one monitor, and I can honestly say I'm more productive because of the extra desktop real-estate. In theory, I'd be about 6 times as productive with that set up there...

Quote: "I wouldn't want a monitor with huge lines running across the front."

If you win/buy/steal one of those things then, I'll be kind enough to take it off your hands.

Incidentally, dell have just released a 30" Widescreen Monitor - £1,471.10 delivered. I guess I'll just have 2 then.

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Posted: 27th Mar 2006 00:36 Edited at: 27th Mar 2006 00:39
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Quote: "If you win/buy/steal one of those things then, I'll be kind enough to take it off your hands"

No I'm serious. Sure for application development or something similar it would be cool, but not for gaming, I would just get annoyed by it. Oh, and thanks for the offer, I'll consider you if it ever happens.

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hyrichter
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Posted: 27th Mar 2006 00:52
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What about me?

I'm more of an application developer than a gamer, so something like this would certainly be sweet.


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BaZko
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Some people have too much money to spend on these kind of things.I mean 2 monitors is useful but you dont really need too much...

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I use visual studio in 1 window, Then use refrences / helpfiles / TV on the other.
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I used two screens for a time... then my mom got angry about not being able to work without a monitor so I had to give one back.

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Posted: 27th Mar 2006 17:03
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I got two 19" monitors sitting here. My 17" blew so I replaced it with an older IBM 19".


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Posted: 27th Mar 2006 17:08
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I have one 19 and a 17 .. I think
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Posted: 27th Mar 2006 22:18 Edited at: 27th Mar 2006 22:20
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I actually saw something much cooler than this once. No idea where though Basically, it was a curved piece of glass*, with a projector pointing vertically upward from the bottom. The projector had a special mirror, so it could curve the image round to the glass.

So you end up with a huge piece of glass* (about 52" if I remember) with a pixel-perfect projection of your screen on it - no lines or anything, and also no meed to have a projector mounted on your wall (because it was built into the bottom of the unit) It was bloody cool. Except the price tag.... (£6,880 )


* The glass was tinted, and had a layer of gas between the panels, so the picture is visible on it. Preety cool if you ask me

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£6,880. Thats all
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I always thought it'd be cool to have multi monitors for flight sims etc. I'd be awesome to fly around in BF1942 doing my crazy staffing runs, but be able to look to my left and right at two other monitors with fixed views out of the cockpit. That's gonna trebble the visual rendering, but my compo can handle it on BF1942! You could do the same thing with FPS games, although it'd be more intuitive with a plane game as you'd naturally feel like you'd have to bank the plane round if you see an enemy in your left screen, where as in an FPS, you feel more like you're in the game rather than controlling something you have to steer. You might end up pointing your fingers at the left monitor making a "bang bang" noise.

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