Alienware's Curved Monitor

ViperArrow writes "Alienware has showcased a curved display prototype supporting a resolution of 2880x900, aimed mainly toward gamers, with a refresh rate of .02ms. This 3-foot-wide DLP with LED illumination will be available by the second half of 2008. The monitor is still showing some flaws, but Alienware assures us that these will be gone by release. No price has been revealed as of yet."

hmm

[wwmedia]

did everyone notice in the video the way the monitor seems to be broken into 4 with the colors being dimmer?

anyways image how pRon would look on that!

initital thoughts

[Fierythrasher]

This might perhaps be good for gaming, but the fact that it is curved makes me shudder at the thought of people doing, say, photoshop work on a naturally curved surface. Sure, having a 3' flat monitor would be hard to see, having it curved is going to make drawing a straight line, or anything other than gaming, really difficult I would think.

Moreover, I'm wondering if this will result in a fish-eye lens (or reverse fish-eye lens) effect even in games.

As for price...you can bet it will be steep, but Apple thinks they can charge $3k for a 32" monitor, so I'd expect a similar cost for a 36" monitor.

Wiiiidddeeee Windows.

[ErroneousBee]

So will Gizmodo take a hint and develop a website that looks good in a short and wide window?

I get sick of having to scroll vertically stacked content into view when I'm on a wide-screen display.

Maybe someone could memo the BBC and Ars about this too.

Re:That's a lot of pixels!

[Brad1138]

Can any graphics card handle the sort of fill rate required from this yet?

Are there any games designed to run at 2880x900?

Re:why do screen resolutions keep going down?

[KillerBob]

Likewise... I switched from a 21" CRT @ 1920x1440 3 years ago, when I bought a Gateway 2185W 21" widescreen LCD at 1680x1050. I love it. My new laptop has a 15.4" screen at the same resolution...

It's not that resolutions are going down. It's that the standard aspect ratio has changed. I can't remember the exact name of it, but there's a general rule out there which describes how a widescreen aspect ratio is more aesthetically pleasing than the old standard 4:3. Has something to do with how the eyes themselves see images... while you still have peripheral vision, your world perception is pretty much in the widescreen aspect ratio. Seeing something in 4:3 is jarring, because you have a *lot* more unoccupied space to either side than you do above and below.

That said... later this week I'm taking delivery of a 47" screen at 1920x1080 resolution.... Converting my old desktop to a Media Center since I've moved all my gaming and other things to the laptop. :)