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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.

IMO I would rather pay $6K for a setup like yours!

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[quote]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.

IMO I would rather pay $6K for a setup like yours!

Mine cost half that. *chuckle*

Really, I wouldn't mind the curved display idea. But the price is crazy. I might pay $600 for one but not $6000. They're just too specialized for them to hit the $600 price point. And on top of that I never heard if they fixed the DLP edge blending issue on these things. I'd like to see them do a product refresh on the concept using flexible OLED and ultra thin bezels. As is right now, it's like having 2 rear projection tvs in a curved casing.

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I would absolutely love to see some more, better, cheaper curved screens.

I have been using my 37" HDTV rather than my TH2GO setup for close to 2 years now, though I am thinking of setting it up again for novelty value and a bit of a change. :rockout

However, if someone were to produce, let's say, a single large (37 inch +) curved display with any of the following resolutions (or ones like them) I would be all over it like grass on a field:

3200x1200
3840x1080
3840x1200

I'd love to be able to run surround as well as widescreen on a single monitor.

Well i could pay lets say $3.000 for a 5040x1050 (or similar) curved monitor, but certainly not $6.500 for a 2800x900 ! :lol:

Haha, I'm with you on that one thales100! :D

I hope they become mainstream soon, so they will be cheaper and all that jazz.

I would absolutely love to see some more, better, cheaper curved screens.

I have been using my 37" HDTV rather than my TH2GO setup for close to 2 years now, though I am thinking of setting it up again for novelty value and a bit of a change. :rockout

However, if someone were to produce, let's say, a single large (37 inch +) curved display with any of the following resolutions (or ones like them) I would be all over it like grass on a field:

3200x1200
3840x1080
3840x1200

I'd love to be able to run surround as well as widescreen on a single monitor.

3840X1200 seems like the perfect res for this kind of setup for me, seeing as it's supposedly about the size of two 24 inch LCDs, only curved (although I wouldn't mind see it equivalent to two 27 inchers myself). The current setup uses four XGA projectors in portrait mode to achieve it's 2880X900 res (I guess they don't use the full DLP chip?) so they could probably do it simply by replacing the DLP chips with 1400X1050 versions, although I imagine those are more expensive.

I'm not sure this is the route they'll take with the design though... they've been talking about wanting to add 3D Vision support, and until Displayport V1.2 becomes standard that's going to require keeping the resolution down.

They can add whatever they want to it and even hold off till whatever cable/port design they think will be the magic one for them. Problem is, all of that is totally irrelevant until they get that price point down to consumer levels. Until then, they're just flushing money down the toilet by not understanding their target audience.

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Brad Hawthorne
Product Manager
Nthusim Pty. Ltd. | www.nthusim.com

They can add whatever they want to it and even hold off till whatever cable/port design they think will be the magic one for them. Problem is, all of that is totally irrelevant until they get that price point down to consumer levels. Until then, they're just flushing money down the toilet by not understanding their target audience.

I was under the impression their target audience is military training rather than consumers. If they plan to shift to the consumer market then yes, they need to lower the price at some point. Although I doubt it's ever going to be cheap, since there's four LED lit projectors in the thing.