An even bigger curvier monitor!
May 17th, 2008The World was shocked at Alienware’s monster curved monitor in January this year at CES but now Shinoda Plasma Corp of Japan have developed a 125-inch curved surface display using its PTA (plasma tuba array) display technology.
The screen’s dimensions are 3m by 1m and composed of three 1m square PTA connected side-by-side. The whole device consumes up to 600W! The thickness of the display part of the monitor (ie excluding the edge frames) is only 1mm thick! and it weighs only 3.6 kg. After all those impressive numbers you’ll be disappointed that the resolution is a measly 960 x 360! So as the screen currently stands you could fiddle with a small utility on it but that’s all.
Shinoda showed us an 86-inch display in October and by October this year hopes to be mass-producing the 1×1m PTA panel.
Tsutae Shinoda, president and chairman of Shinoda Plasma says the new prototype is:
“nearly as good as a mass-produced model. There are already some users who want to purchase it given its current display performance (for digital signage and such applications).”
This targeting of signage applications would seem to be a fall-back market since in such a situation there would be no call for the display to be curved as we see in the photographs.
Some changes have been made since the earlier model was shown. Shinoda goes on to say:
We’ve improved the manufacturing process to achieve even luminance. The tone display and some other operational conditions were also changed.”
He also claims that PTA technology is at about 60 to 70% of its potential.
Shinoda plans to show the display at InfoComm 08 in Las Vegas this Summer in a private presentation. Planned improvements before then include a filter to prevent reflections.
Shinoda Plasma plan to develop and sell PTA-based products with Hibino Corp. The companies will co-develop the displays which will incorporate Hibino’s video processor.
Obviously the poor resolution is a barrier to this technology ever appearing on your desktop. It will have to increase three times (width and height) to be suitable for gaming and five times for running any kind of OS interface.
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