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Pretty amazing...

http://gizmodo.com/341413/alienware-curved-monitor-looks-like-its-from-another-planet

It's a DLP rear-projection display, using LEDs. It uses four panels, and I just realized that the resolution is 2x1440x900. 2.59M pixels and 3.2:1 aspect. TH2Go is 3.93M pixels and 3.75:1.

WOW! :shock: That would be incredible cool to try out! You should contact them and ask if you can review this for us!

That is indeed other worldly, but probably ungodly expensive knowing Alienware. I've been hoping DLP displays would be made small enough for desktop gaming in 1080p ever since Samsung started making the UltraSlim models. I'd be happy with just an UltraSlim 1080p 27" 16:9 flatscreen.

The wrap around idea is cool but this one looks too wide for it's height to me. The response sounds believable since lots of DLP TVs are 16 micro seconds. A .02 response is 20, so that's pretty close. Just when you think they're about to make a video card that can handle the biggest monitors by itself even playing Crysis maxed they start showing us stuff like this! LOL

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Strange that the guy in the video says this is LED illuminated but Engadget says it's OLED illuminated. An OLED screen would curve easier but they require no backlighting like DLP.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/07/alienware-curved-display-rocks-crysis-at-2880-x-900/

Engadget has to be wrong about the OLED. I noticed after watching the video again the rep says it uses OSRAM LEDs as the light source but that is not the same as OLED. OLED screens themselves light up when electricity is passed through them, entirely different technology from DLP. DLPs have LCD screens but I'm pretty sure they wouldn't work with an OLED screen.

Pretty amazing...

http://gizmodo.com/341413/alienware-curved-monitor-looks-like-its-from-another-planet

It's a DLP rear-projection display, using LEDs. It uses four panels, and I just realized that the resolution is 2x1440x900. 2.59M pixels and 3.2:1 aspect. TH2Go is 3.93M pixels and 3.75:1.

that is indeed very interesting. I wouldn't swap it against my TH2G and my 1990FXps.

Strange that the guy in the video says this is LED illuminated but Engadget says it's OLED illuminated. I wonder if that means they use an OLED screen to make it curve easier. Problem is OLED screens have 1/3 the lifespan of LCDs. http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/07/alienware-curved-display-rocks-crysis-at-2880-x-900/

Well technically speaking OLED's are actually LED's... just organic.

So he's right ;)

Well technically speaking OLED's are actually LED's... just organic. So he's right ;)

He didn't just refer to OLED vs LED, he referred to it as being used in this display, which is impossible as it's a DLP. Engadget is saying it has OLED illumination. OLED tech does not use backlighting at all, like LCD and DLP does.

There really is no such thing as OLED illumination. There are OLED screens that become illuminated when electricity passes through them but not OLED illumination. You can clearly hear the rep in the video say the display uses LED lighting, which would not be required with OLED technology.

It is a nice idea but the lack of height (900 pixels) and the pixel size put me off..
Oh and being alienware it'll cost a BOMB!

It is a nice idea but the lack of height (900 pixels) and the pixel size put me off..
Oh and being alienware it'll cost a BOMB!

Yeah I agree, but hopefully it will get other manufacturers thinking about making 16:9 DLP desktop monitors.

it is not just the price.... but this 'monitor' is huge.... I wonder how much desk place will this take up

Is Alienware a site sponsor?

No offense, but 2880x900 is crappy surround-screen resolution. Get a TH2G, 3 LCDs, a fresnel lens and build a monitor case just like the one Alienware uses but achieve higher resolution.

A more seamless fresnel lens setup can be done if you modify this design to be like the Alienware one: http://forum.racesimcentral.com/showthread.php?t=298339

I've seen photos of those fresnel setups and I've always wondered. I once saw a fresnel magnifying glass and seeing through it made it look like a bunch of transparent circles through the image, are the bigger ones the same and if so how can that be useable as displays?

Crappy resolution for a crappy price. You could buy an Apple 30" and come out with more resolution for less price.

How is the screen height comparable to 4:3 monitors though? It seemed shortish.

No offense, but 2880x900 is crappy surround-screen resolution. Get a TH2G, 3 LCDs, a fresnel lens and build a monitor case just like the one Alienware uses but achieve higher resolution.

A more seamless fresnel lens setup can be done if you modify this design to be like the Alienware one: http://forum.racesimcentral.com/showthread.php?t=298339

You do miss the .02ms response time though, which is amazing in my opinion, even if the unit is alittle thick.

Probably some Dell intern couldn't come up with an original idea he/she saw TH2GO and ripped off Matrox, so he/she could get a nice big pat on the back. Alienware, is now Dell by the way if you don't already now that. So I am going to assume this product or ripoff they made is going to get more publicity because it's Dell. Just like how WoW pwns all other MMO games in subscriptions because of publicity. Like, you guys said though... the resolution they made that monstrosity have, it's just dumb. It's way better to go with TH2GOD. I would never buy anything from Alienware(Dell) ever in my life.

probably saw one of those too:

http://www.seamlessdisplay.com/products_radius320.htm

wonder what the defective pixel policy covers :)

as for the dell/alienware box, seems more hype then product to me for some reason, the specs just don't seem real and just plain odd.

I emailed seamless display once for a price, more than some cars is what they told me IE 14000$ but that was a few years back its probably under 10k now (Perhaps that would be a tad optimistic)

By the odd specs I could honestly believe that alienware thing is more a 2x1440x900 panel hack then anything useful ...

Somehow all I've seen of it rings the 'bull(censored) alarm' in my mind, especially the response specs they claim.

Color me not impressed. Its too short and wide IMO. I know the idea is to have max FOV but since I have been using my 37" for so long now if I lost all that vertical view space I would feel out of place and I feel its just as important to feel immersed into a game/movie.

Honestly even without a ultra wide FOV and curved build a 37" only 4' away from you works pretty damn well to put you "in the game" and has a much added benefit of working with every game and not just ones that can be hacked for ultra wide FOV.

I think I would rather have the Jdome than this :P