Monday, January 7th 2008

Alienware Shows Off Curved Monitor at CES

Jimmy 2004

Jan 7th, 2008 16:26 Discuss (41 Comments)

GIZMODO has taken some interesting pictures and a video of Alienware's curved monitor, which the company plans to release later this year. The monitor has a resolution of 2880x900 pixels, and according to HEXUS.net it contains four DLP rear projection screens. The most impressive feature (other than the fact it's curved of course) is the 0.02ms response time Alienware is claiming. As you can see, seams between each of the four screens are visible, but Alienware is promising that these will be gone by the time it is released to the public.

Source: GIZMODO

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41 Comments on Alienware Shows Off Curved Monitor at CES

erocker

Wow, very cool. Looks a little prototype-ish to me, but awesome!

Jimmy 2004

Thank you to bretts31344 for sending this in to us.

HaZe303

erockerWow, very cool. Looks a little prototype-ish to me, but awesome!

Maybe because it is a prototype?? hmmm... :)

Jimmy 2004As you can see, seams between each of the four screens are visible

I tried to really look for the seams, but I really cant see them?? Can you? You must have some super eye sight?

phanbuey

HaZe303Maybe because it is a prototype?? hmmm... :)

I tried to really look for the seams, but I really cant see them?? Can you? You must have some super eye sight?

you can... especially the far right screen, which is brighter than the rest.

Jimmy 2004

These two are most obvious to me - take a look at the parts I've highlighted on the original image and you should see what I mean.

ShadowFold

Let me guess. It costs more than my rig :ohwell: Cool idea, but thats gonna cost alot of money. Also why is being curved good? Thats kinda awkward to me..

woozers

Now that is wiiiiide :eek::D

Jimmy 2004

woozersNow that is wiiiiide :eek::D

I work it out to be a ratio of 16:5... compared to 16:9 on a standard widescreen TV.

phanbuey

man, theyre playing crysis on that thing... I would like to see the monster that they hooked up to that in order to run that game at that res...

#10

PVTCaboose1337

Graphical Hacker

Wow that is impressive. Now it curves around so you can see all the picture at the same time. Peripheral vision!

#11

Exceededgoku

I think it looks quite rubbish tbh... Picture quality and colour reproduction are poor. Awesome concept though!

#12

DaMulta

My stars went supernova

If that thing is less than 3 grand I may take a loan to get one.

It looks SWEET!!!!!

#13

Weer

It's only slightly curved.. so it's basically just the bottom half of a 50" screen.

#14

-1nf1n1ty-

has expensive written all over it

#15

imperialreign

I think it looks quite rubbish tbh... Picture quality and colour reproduction are poor. Awesome concept though!

very hard to judge picture quality, color, brightness and contrast of an LCD from pictures taken at an angle

but that looks friggin sweet! Imagine how much a display like that would add to immersion in a game?! :twitch:

#16

DrunkenMafia

its very thin vertically though... I mean 900!!! Maybe that is all you need I dunno. But yeah I agree that it would be pretty friggin awesome to game on that thing... Its only good for FPS though and maybe some driving games, all those wow nerds can just get a normal screen.. :)

I bet it weighs a friggin ton, from that pic ^ side on it looks like its a good 12in thick.

I am betting at least 3g for one of those....

#17

JC316

Knows what makes you tick

That is tight, very nice, but probably EXPENSIVE.

#18

effmaster

Wow that guy in the third picture sure knows how to open his eyes:laugh::laugh::laugh:

But yeah the second picture is the best one to show off the seams that the four projectors show off

#19

DEFEATEST

It's a fricken Alien Ware, of course it's gosh darn expensive! I can seriously see monitors going that way, especially for gamers. But ya, you would need some serious video cardishness to run that monitorsauras! :)

#20

Easy Rhino

Linux Advocate

is this really the way PC monitors will go? what about television?

#21

Triprift

I have a mate who would buy one for sure he has to have the biggest and the best stuff havnt heard the end of it since he got his samsung 30 inch monitor.

#22

DaMulta

My stars went supernova

I just wish it was LCD and not DLP. So there wouldn't be any moving parts in there.

#23

simlariver

DLP suck, poor colour reproduction, mediocre viewing angles, ridiculous contrast ratio, etc...

You will need 20+min of calibration every week to make the image to look consistent. This is a gadget, not next gen tech.

#24

Joe_tiger27

ShadowFoldLet me guess. It costs more than my rig :ohwell: Cool idea, but thats gonna cost alot of money. Also why is being curved good? Thats kinda awkward to me..

They know that you're going to be sitting close to the screen, so the curve follows your natural peripheral vision, thus producing less strain on your eyes. If the monitor were flat like a plasma tv you'd have on your wall, sitting close to it would not only strain your eyes, but your neck as well, since you would be moving your head all over the place in order to take everything in

#25

saltydog

DLP / LCD issue (not)

Two key things to note from the listest specs on this thing. 1) DLP and 2) LED. Don't confuse older color wheel DLP stuff with newer DLP-LED driven displays (ie. no moving parts in this one!). The color quality, contrast ratio, monitor life and refresh rates of DLP-LED displays can equal or greatly exceed ANYTHING on the market today if done right.. It will be intersting to see what the final product looks like when they tweak this thing in (and the price of course)..

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