Couldn't the bezels be reduced by overlapping the monitors? (e.g. by moving the side monitors forward and inwards, so their side bezels covered the centre monitors' bezels - then moving the top monitors forward and down). This would give a single rather than double bezel to contend with.
Of course, there are multiple monitor setups with bezels removed (like the Radius 320, though that website doesn't appear to have been updated for a few years) but they are abominably pricey.
Hmm me thinks that ATI havent concentrated much on the gaming aspect over getting picture onto 6 screens. Im thinking some dissapointing results in anything but a racing game. Because lets be fair, what racing game have we ever come across that demanded a lot in graphical hardware? Not much i can tell you that.
I wonder how battlefield bad company 2, ARMA2 and Crysis would fair on this system...
I think they need a 4Gb card to help push the amount of memory through, a larger buffer, and probably a decent clock speed on it.
Pulled apart a chimei LCD a week ago and the bezel was actually bigger than the lcd by far.. maybe 5mm of steel encasing the screen under the plastic? maybe get 6 screens and make a custom bezel for the lot.. mmm modding
Beyond 30" monitors they could make super widescreen monitors, i would rather wait for a single monitor solution than sticking lots of monitors together.
Someone needs to make No Bezel LED monitors for this very reason.
instead of one expensive gpu by two mid price ones and get the same performance
instead of one big expensive TV buy 3 or 6 mid price ones for a bigger set up
What I didn't see was that maybe the monitor manufacturers need to be shoved into making larger monitors with a pixel count equal to, or greater than, what AMD is pushing. A single, large super high res monitor capable of taking that output is viable if the manufacturers see a market. Now they have a reason.
This has broader implications than just gaming, medical digital imaging has been moving towards this for some time. They need 40-50 in super high res screens 4-8 times higher than current products.Greater demand, greater likelihood of production.
As an eyefinity user, the only reason i can see this card useful at all is for the extra memory when using 3 screens.
Odd number of screens should be the only way to go really.
Or a massively surround 5 screens Oo
For 3 screens bezels aint a problem what so ever, although some people will just whine all day about them without seeing a setup.
True I wish graphics cards as a standard supported 3 screens instead of just two (without the need for special display port monitors), that would be the ideal setup in most situations.
so if I have understood this correctly, in order to line the screens up through the bezels they just throw bits of the image away? Rubbish.
At the Newcastle Maker Faire today (go if you can, its awesome) some people were demonstrating something for beyond HDTV. It was a screen in the middle, as usual, and a projector behind your head pointing at a convex mirror. The mirror shone the image round the room, and it provided peripheral vision for you in a remarkably good way.
It is a little bit ropey atm, the projected image was very pixellated, but if you were watching something on the primary screen the effect you got was extremely good.
Originally Posted by Cupboard so if I have understood this correctly, in order to line the screens up through the bezels they just throw bits of the image away? Rubbish.
For a three screen setup, where the ones either side just act as peripheral vision, the "loss" of something behind bezels isn't as jarring. For a 3x2 array, I can see it being a problem, though. :(
But ultimately, the type of games that surround most 'makes' (racing sims, flight sims) have obstructions to peripheral view anyway - the rollcage in a car, the cockpit in a plane... hm, that's a point... has anyone who wears glasses ever complained that the glasses hide/block part of their vision - the frames and the arms...?
Obviously the "perfect" surround setup would be using projectors for a seamless surround setup. Space and cost don't make that viable for everyone, though. :( As cool as it would be! :D
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ReplyOf course, there are multiple monitor setups with bezels removed (like the Radius 320, though that website doesn't appear to have been updated for a few years) but they are abominably pricey.
I wonder how battlefield bad company 2, ARMA2 and Crysis would fair on this system...
I think they need a 4Gb card to help push the amount of memory through, a larger buffer, and probably a decent clock speed on it.
instead of one expensive gpu by two mid price ones and get the same performance
instead of one big expensive TV buy 3 or 6 mid price ones for a bigger set up
no anything over 120hz is a gimmick. You can clearly see a difference between a 60 and 120hz LCD.
But ya I game on a 30" DoubleSight DS-305W, want to talk about awesome and the color quality being a H-IPS panel is amazing.
I've been looking all over for them and NO ONE has black ones. Only white (for Apple I assume)....
I want to get black cables to run straight from the card to my U2410s w/o having to use a mini displayport to displayport adapter.
This has broader implications than just gaming, medical digital imaging has been moving towards this for some time. They need 40-50 in super high res screens 4-8 times higher than current products.Greater demand, greater likelihood of production.
6 for gaming = no way!
6 for work = Awesomeness!
Odd number of screens should be the only way to go really.
Or a massively surround 5 screens Oo
For 3 screens bezels aint a problem what so ever, although some people will just whine all day about them without seeing a setup.
At the Newcastle Maker Faire today (go if you can, its awesome) some people were demonstrating something for beyond HDTV. It was a screen in the middle, as usual, and a projector behind your head pointing at a convex mirror. The mirror shone the image round the room, and it provided peripheral vision for you in a remarkably good way.
It is a little bit ropey atm, the projected image was very pixellated, but if you were watching something on the primary screen the effect you got was extremely good.
For a three screen setup, where the ones either side just act as peripheral vision, the "loss" of something behind bezels isn't as jarring. For a 3x2 array, I can see it being a problem, though. :(
But ultimately, the type of games that surround most 'makes' (racing sims, flight sims) have obstructions to peripheral view anyway - the rollcage in a car, the cockpit in a plane... hm, that's a point... has anyone who wears glasses ever complained that the glasses hide/block part of their vision - the frames and the arms...?
Obviously the "perfect" surround setup would be using projectors for a seamless surround setup. Space and cost don't make that viable for everyone, though. :( As cool as it would be! :D
And the 3x2 setup is really weak imo.. 3x3 is where it's at!
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