Alienware Shows Crysis at 2880 x 900

[Ayepecks]

It looks neat for gaming, but it's a little overkill, IMO... I'm fine with my 19" @ 1440 x 900.

[Matrix XII]

thats one ugly looking monitor

[Noveed]

Wow Just wow, i would love to have one, but i know it would come with a hefty price tag, alienware allways are too expensive

[Churma]

After seeing this thing in person, the only thing I don't get is why does it have a back going back 8 inches... its a lot deeper then any normal LCD out there

The back is thick because this is a RPTV It is DLP. Horrable. Enjoy the color wheel. Stick with a 30" Dell panel setup.

[Boz]

Guys, it's 2 or 3 monitors connected in one housing running multi-screen adapter from Matrox. The only advancement here is that they've designed the house to hold those monitors together with no bezel.

http://www.matrox.com/graphics/surroundgaming/en/home/

http://www.matrox.com/graphics/surroundgam...d/crysis/#close

[Lyric]

Ugly. Not worth what it will cost.

[whYeNQue]

Ugly. Not worth what it will cost.

what if it'll cost only ?500?

(i know it won't, but whatever the cost, it'll be worth it for some people)

[rajputwarrior]

that's just ridiculous

[Digitalx]

cool idea, technically it fails. maybe once a better quality one comes around.

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

A game of pong on that would take forever!

[PENGUINwithM4A1]

Waitor, yes I would like three 8800 Ultras with that please.

Why is the back so big? The matrox 3head box isnt iirc.

[Creamy]

A game of pong on that would take forever!

And Tetris would become really exciting! ;)

[Lyric]

Waitor, yes I would like three 8800 Ultras with that please.

Why is the back so big? The matrox 3head box isnt iirc.

Thats exactly why this monitor fails, its freaking huge in the back and it isn't worth the price of what it will cost. (I'd guess probably $2,500 US or more.

[Luis.A]

I for one like it. Seems it could benefit gamers and people who are serious about having a productive computing environment.

[Smigit]

Seems relatively useless for games...I can't see many having that resolution and it's not exactly future proof hardware wise as every 6 month the latest game will kill whatever hardware is in there if you want to run native. I'd much rather a more standard ratio supplied by a 30" if I had to use a stupidly oversized display.

If anything it's a display suited to desktop use if you ask me as an alternative to dual displays.

[rr_dRock]

The only things that i could see a screen this size being used for would be say, for security, so you can view multiple cameras on one screen at a decent size. Or for massive gaming tournaments such as the $1mil halo tournament, just as a gimmick, or a prize or what have you. I'm hoping this will have a TV tuner, and a DVD player built in and such, .... because for that size, and the price it will undoubtedly be, its really quite ridiculous for gaming on... i dont like seeing nothing but the screen when i'm playing.....

[ATLien_0]

for this to work though like with most games wouldnt the games have to be made for widescreen, as is some multiplayers dont support true widescreen they just stretch so you dont get an upper hand

[Smigit]

for this to work though like with most games wouldnt the games have to be made for widescreen, as is some multiplayers dont support true widescreen they just stretch so you dont get an upper hand

Even then it's a completly non standard resolution so even if the games support WS they possibly won't have been designed with this in mind although I guess some engines will handle it.

[FreqFace]

Big and ugly. You can clearly see the seams. :x

[DELTETHISACCOUNT]

It's nice, I like it. But I'd rather take the 150-inch plasma from Panasonic instead.

[EnzoFX]

its like 4 panels, and you can see lines in between!

anyways, alienware states that they'll clean that up by the time this releases at the end of this year.

you shouldn't assume its 1 curved screen

[FreqFace]

its like 4 panels, and you can see lines in between!

anyways, alienware states that they'll clean that up by the time this releases at the end of this year.

you shouldn't assume its 1 curved screen

I don't understand the technology behind it, but why can't it be one huge panel? Why must it be 4 'stuck' together? Maybe someone could explain...

[iKap]

umm it's not a dual monitor, it's just 1 monitor made in a curve as you can see.

Lol couldn't have said it any better then that. But yeah that thing looks pretty raw, wish that was out back in the good old Counter-Strike 1.3 days lol.

[chconline Veteran]

Another TN panel? :p

[BlackSteyrAug]

I'll wait until their out of prototype, fix the seems, released by another company because Alienware overcharge everything, and a smaller back. For now I'll settle for a TV screen?