projectors vs flat TV

[JSpahn]

Its coming:

http://gizmodo.com/341413/alienware-...another-planet

[Michael Carter]

They're on the right track.

[Padraig]

I seen this a good while ago. I thought it would be out by now, but I would hope that it will be higher in size too. It looks very long, but not high enough.

[ivar hestnes]

I can't wait until they develop flexible LCD TFT technology. Can you imagine a 60", or larger wrap-around screen, and needing only one for the entire sim?

Cheaper than a projector and runs from only one video port on the card.

Wishful thinking I guess.

It is already invented Michael It is called Oled.

But not yet available for the public market.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ0oMMEyb40

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fEgA...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFDyW...eature=related

This is going to be awesome when you can order a OLED sheet on 6x2 meters

[Michael Carter]

Wow. Thanks for posting that. It was very informative.

[BHawthorne]

Its coming:

http://gizmodo.com/341413/alienware-...another-planet

wrong...

That's a 3 gun rear projection DLP tv setup. crap for the money... Alienware has been pimping that prototype for about 2 years now. Wrong resolution, wrong technology, wrong pricerange.

I really think surround-screen will never be popular enough to target with mainstream hardware. Manufacturers simply can't justify the development for a small group of people. Until something comes along to make it appealing to mainstream it won't catch on or be affordable imho. It would be really cool to see OLED kits out in the future that might address some of these issues though.

[fweinrebe]

Well the bottom one does not work well and I am talking from experience. The center where the left and right come together is the problem. When you are on approach, you can not see the runway. The first one works much better.

tasmanet, what Bob is referring to and he is right is that the split in the monitors is where the runway should be if you are nicely on centreline on an approach or even in a take-off position. The runway is slitted between the monitors. Very irritating.

This is why the TripleHeadToGo works so well because the runway is always in the centre of the centre screen.

[Jackpilot]

tasmanet, what Bob is referring to and he is right is that the split in the monitors is where the runway should be if you are nicely on centreline on an approach or even in a take-off position. The runway is slitted between the monitors. Very irritating.

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What if you put the point of view more left on the Capt side and more right on the FO's? (if doable?)

[tasmanet]

View_forward_dir=3.000, 0.000, 5.000

Plane was on autopilot

Using a320 but the panel is for an a380

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[GSalden]

A triplehead2go is a good piece of hardware, but for a nice cockpit it probably would be better using for , so the middel window bar of the cockpit is really in the middle, where the bezels of the monitors also are.

However there is no way ( as far as I know of ) to get 4 screesn 3d accelerated.

Adding a 4 monitor beside a triplehead2go would be in window mode and that extra view can cost up to 40% gramerates.

I used projectors before and I loved it, but the extra sharpness ( resolution ) with lcd screens I prefer better.

Using 2 computers with WidevieW would work, however when using the th2go the front view is spread over 3 monitors and then the runway looks wider.