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Quite exciting I must say. I think I'll stick to my 3 24" because I can turn em portrait for officework, but if they give me a massive curved monitor, I might get that in the future.

http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=890

ummm... $6500 for a 2800x900 resolution monitor... no thank you.

but I'm sure it have it' niche. like ours but it's out of our budget.
at least mine

I didn't catch the price. Yikes!

Curved monitors are sweet, but for the most part the lackluster resolution and extreme price a deal breakers. If you want a rather wide display with a decent resolution you can go with a Cinema Display. (http://www.consumer.philips.com/c/cinema-21-9/30849/cat/gb/) is 2560x1080. Though in the advent of 2560x1440 and 2560x1600 displays, the wideness could be killed by the resolution alone. But the display is 56." I wish they would start making monitors in wider aspect ratios. If we're going towards the same aspect ratio as movie we should jump on it i think.

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Curved monitors are sweet, but for the most part the lackluster resolution and extreme price a deal breakers. If you want a rather wide display with a decent resolution you can go with a Cinema Display. (http://www.consumer.philips.com/c/cinema-21-9/30849/cat/gb/) is 2560x1080. Though in the advent of 2560x1440 and 2560x1600 displays, the wideness could be killed by the resolution alone. But the display is 56." I wish they would start making monitors in wider aspect ratios. If we're going towards the same aspect ratio as movie we should jump on it i think.

I thought the Phillips would make an amazing gaming monitor until I heard that the PC input on it maxes out at 1920X1080 just like normal HDTVs - it just scales stuff like 1920X817 encoded Blurays to 2560X1080. Which to me kills the point for PC gaming. Maybe Vizio's upcoming 58 inch 21:9 HD set, which also has a 2560X1080 panel, will have proper PC input.

I looked into doing rear projection onto glass about a year ago, but the real key IMO is that you need LED projectors to make that really feasible. I game too much to be buying projector bulbs 2 or 3 times a year x3 or so screens.

But for everyone that complains about bezels, 3x 1080p in a rear projection setup would be ideal.

I looked into doing rear projection onto glass about a year ago, but the real key IMO is that you need LED projectors to make that really feasible. I game too much to be buying projector bulbs 2 or 3 times a year x3 or so screens.

But for everyone that complains about bezels, 3x 1080p in a rear projection setup would be ideal.

If I had no need for bezels, I'm not sure that I'd go 3X1080P rather than 2X1080P. Although I suppose then you'd have projector seems to deal with.

Unfortunately nobody seems to make reasonably prices 1080P LED projectors yet, although I have seen 1280X800 LED projectors go for $1200 Canadian.

I see 3 of these as a total waist because honestly 3x24 are taking up almost 100% of my vision I can just barely see the edges of the two outside monitors. 3 of these would go way beyond my vision and just be going to waist. Plus the proper FOV would just be outrageous, infact it would be so high that in some games it would cause it to invert your view.

This is meant to be a single monitor and saved for somebody with a lot of money to burn who is afraid of bezels in a regular multi monitor setup.

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I see 3 of these as a total waist because honestly 3x24 are taking up almost 100% of my vision I can just barely see the edges of the two outside monitors. 3 of these would go way beyond my vision and just be going to waist. Plus the proper FOV would just be outrageous, infact it would be so high that in some games it would cause it to invert your view.

This is meant to be a single monitor and saved for somebody with a lot of money to burn who is afraid of bezels in a regular multi monitor setup.

I've been working with 5x23" 1080p monitors, I can see about to half of the outer monitors (they're in a semi circle around me).

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Curved screens aren't back, they never left. It's just noone in their right minds are gonna pay $6500 for one let alone 3.

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