wtf Fox News debuts bizarre, giant tablets in its outrageous new newsroom

[vcfan]

I laughed so hard when I saw this.... wait.... this isn't a joke?! It's serious? Really?

 

If your OS is made so that you need a 55 inch screen.... then it's made poorly.

 

 

 

[margrave]

Still bunches of wasted screen . . .

[ScorpioRGc1]

Honestly, I like it other than the giant white bezels on the monitors; ditch those and it'd be pretty sweet.

[Memphis]

Unless these screens offer 4k resolution to take advantage of that extra space its useless.

[123456789A]

Man, I hope they got GTX Titans in those things! That is AWESOME.

[Lord Method Man]

Wonder how much Microsoft paid them for this.

 

Microsoft: Just a hint, but Windows 8's poor sales figures aren't due to a lack of product visibility.

[123456789A]

I laughed so hard when I saw this.... wait.... this isn't a joke?! It's serious? Really?

 

If your OS is made so that you need a 55 inch screen.... then it's made poorly.

 

 

Wow that guy's hand is HUGE if he's holding a 55" tablet like that.

[bridges]

Did they set all that up just for the shepard Smith show? 

[bridges]

Wow that guy's hand is HUGE if he's holding a 55" tablet like that.

It may be a womans hand...

[spacey]

i am highly suspicious that a single 55" display (even if it was 4k resolutIon) could be more productive for news dissemination than say 2 x 24" displays at 1920x1200...

[Memphis]

i am highly suspicious that a single 55" display (even if it was 4k resolutIon) could be more productive for news dissemination than say 2 x 24" displays at 1920x1200...

If it was high resolution and not at a slant making using the top of the screen extremely tough, it would help. the looks of it are 1080p which would be terrible for desktop work that close.

[trooper11]

I laughed so hard when I saw this.... wait.... this isn't a joke?! It's serious? Really?

 

If your OS is made so that you need a 55 inch screen.... then it's made poorly.

 

 

Um, the OS isn't made so you need a 55 inch screen.

 

Why are you guys trying to turn this into some hit piece on Windows 8?

 

I just don't get it.

 

The idea seems great:

 

Leverage the start screen for Windows 8.1 as the dashboard for all of their apps.  Then create the apps you need to get the work done.  Since the goal of their work is to basically sift through media, including social media sources, for information, then as long as their app is made well, I don't see why it couldn't be very useful and pretty slick at the same time.  Don't blame Win 8 if Fox doesn't create the proper apps to make it all work. 

 

Honestly, if those screens had thin bezels, it would look pretty darn cool.  I don't know what res those are running at though.  I guess we can assume 1080p, but do we know for sure?  Since its a custom monitor, it might be 1920x1200 or something closer to 4k.

[YanksOnTop]

Smurfs in front of big ass iPads running Windows 8..  INNOVATION BABY!!!!!!!!!

[Torolol]

thats a hugeass bezels.

[gameboy1977]

[ichi]

I don't get the point: large screens displaying huge widgets and oversized text right in front of your face? A touchscreen to drag tweets up and down with a whole arm movement when you could be using one single finger on a scrollwheel with your arms comfortably resting over the desktop?

 

It's preposterous, what the hell were they smoking when they conceived that? It reminds me of those 70's futuristic movies with obviously uncomfortable futuristic chairs and awkwardly unergonomic interfaces.

 

Those poor guys even have to lean forward to reach most part of the screen.

[tiagosilva29]

Paul Fitts is rolling on his grave.

[chrisj1968]

They are using conference room touch screens as monitors? Why ?

so they can pull up what is on any persons screen at any time. Hey, it is their money.. why complain? one moment, people are defending the heck out of windows 8 then next they are hating on it.

 

oh well, I don't watch Fox news anyway.. or any mainstream media for that matter.

[Praetor]

i think this is the Microsoft response for the iMac...

[ichi]

one moment, people are defending the heck out of windows 8 then next they are hating on it.

 

 

I don't think Windows8 is really relevant in the obnoxiousness of the setup, it would be equally stupid if they were using any other OS.

 

Although then again maybe the whole point of the oversized screens is for the spectators to notice the product placement rather than any intent of usefulness.

[chrisj1968]

I don't think Windows8 is really relevant in the obnoxiousness of the setup, it would be equally stupid if they were using any other OS.

 

Although then again maybe the whole point of the oversized screens is for the spectators to notice the product placement rather than any intent of usefulness.

actually, I see alot of popular support for bigger screens and higher resolutions. but on second thought, it does look sorta funny small skinny people in front of a giant touchscreen that a jaeger from pacific rim  movie could use. imagine one of the huge robots carying around a huge surface pro 2

 

Darn that Neobond!, I need my tablet to fight this darn monster!

[Knife Party]

one of those guys browsing the web was called an 'information specialist' HAHAHAHAHAAH  :huh:  What a delusional bunch, just like the news they "present" 

[ichi]

actually, I see alot of popular support for bigger screens and higher resolutions. but on second thought, it does look sorta funny small skinny people in front of a giant touchscreen that a jaeger from pacific rim  movie could use. imagine one of the huge robots carying around a huge surface pro 2

 

 

Well, yes, I actually use a 50" TV as computer screen at home, but then again I'm not waving my hands around over the TV or using widgets and fonts the size of my head, nor do I sit at arm's length of it.

[LeGourmand]

I love how they are using a 15$ keyboard with that massive setup

 

[trooper11]

I don't think Windows8 is really relevant in the obnoxiousness of the setup, it would be equally stupid if they were using any other OS.

 

Although then again maybe the whole point of the oversized screens is for the spectators to notice the product placement rather than any intent of usefulness.

 

 

Didn't you see the point they made over and over about how their goal was centered around presentation?  They mentioned how they demoed all sorts of presentation display hardware and then came to settle on this solution.  The goal seems to be to show viewers news as the journalists track it down, to be able to make news as quickly as possible. 

 

These aren't meant to be workstations for writers.  These are meant to be presentation devices where the journalists/info specialists/whatever scan through all sorts of media to track down confirmations to stories that show up via social networking, etc.  Then the host of the Fox News Desk, Shepherd Smith, can go over to any of these guys and the viewers get to see exactly what the journalist is working on, etc.

 

This whole setup is about presentation.  Clearly, if these guys were not on camera, they would not be using 55" touchscreens to scan media.  They wanted to create a view that could be more interesting to the viewers at home instead of a boring looking office layout with people typing at a desk.

 

I don't know, it just seems too easy to dismiss all of this as ridiculous.