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So there finally selling off the crappy props from Swordfish...

The thick black borders around each monitor break up the picture to much and are really distracting.

Someone forgot to read the small print...

He who dies with the most toys wins*
*(unless he dies prematurely when his mountain of toys topples over on him)

Projector FTW!

I suppose that could display the full resolution of the Red camera.

Back to the age old question... "Does size matter?"

And the answer is HELL YEAH! And the only people who will tell you otherwise are people with small er... Um...

Setups!

Looks like my TV with a bunch of shitty lines thru it.

@Munch: It does look a bit top heavy.

I agree with the above. Lines are pretty annoying. I don't know how people put up with it with dual monitors. Also surely this thing is terrible for the eyes unless you sit back a couple of miles or soo.

Finally, a screen setup capable of fitting in all my Warcraft macro buttons.

Well, almost...

@liveinvt: My thoughts exactly.

A perfect fit for my five trillion column spreadsheet I am working on.

@Yeebles:

If you are looking at different items on each monitor, then the lines will not bother you at all.

Personally i use three at work, and have four remote desktops, a web browser, email, coding, and various other small apps spread across them.
I also have a separate computer that has it's own monitor that runs specialized apps.

there are days i'd like another, but it would take too much neck turning to focus on everything.

dual monitors works because you have different crap running on each monitor, not just one giant thing. Running one program stretched across multiple monitors is useless, just buy one giant monitor if you want to mono-task, but do it BIG...

@bms: It might fit on there, but you'd pretty much need a separate video card for each monitor anyways.

Wow no Crysis comments... ? This would be really hot for a flight simulator.

Oh well
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@Joseph: It can play Crysis but only on the top left monitor.

The GPU of your computer would cry trying to play Crysis at full resolution on this bad boy.

@mikeg916:

Ah good point I often have many windows cluttered on my mac (thank goodness for expose) and can't be asked to use Spaces so this i guess would be useful. However, I was thinking about this for games and movies. Also the picture of the 15 monitors hows them displaying a movie/picture surely it would be better to demonstrate multiple windows.

Windows xp only supports up to 10 monitors(yeah only 10, weak. lol). This setup would just strech the image to fit as one. So the idea of having the extened desktop on all of those monitors wouldnt work. at least on a 15 monitor setup. this is recockulus.

Sure, the lines would suck for home use, but it would be fantastic for musea, plantetaria, etc.

Also, two of the three screen setups,
laid back to back making a hexagon of screens would be fantastic in the center of a bar.

@liveinvt:
damn, you've got one pair of cojones coming in here with that avatar

@Adam: You won't die alone in there. Just have Monty come and lift the monitors off of you...or at least bring you the cell phone.
...after he finishes sorting the recycling of course.

@discounteggroll: I thought it was a good joke to mock they-whose-name-which-shall-not-be-spoken.

Not funny?

@liveinvt: meh, not bad, as long as your joking.

@Yeebles: and can't be asked to use Spaces

How about using Spaces? There, that was easy. And you said you couldn't be asked.

I think I'd rather just have 1 30" display

In the twilight zone version, the monitors end up swalling the user and the user ends up in the world behind the glass.

(Or was that Weird Science?)

@ripfire4: Swallowing... That's it, I'm getting a venti red-eye.

@ripfire4:
No, it was "Twilight Zone" the old B & W version.

nice, except for the huge black frame edges all over the image.

@liveinvt: i think it's hilarious. keep it. seriously. made me laugh.

Trust me the black edges is simply due to the choice of monitors in this setup.

Look around and you can find monitors designed with multi-monitor setups in mind that have ultra slim bezels and at standard viewing distance they almost disappear.

i'd just take ONE srsly big monitor over this.

How dignifying would it be to be crushed to death by a giant wall-o-porn? Screw dignifying, a guy can dream right?

I realize this is a gadget site, and we're a supposed to drool all over this stuff. However, this level of opulence just makes me feel guilty for being a big fat greedy Western capitalist pig. Crush the proletariat!!!

I ditched the Dual-setup after about 10 years last month. Upgraded to a 1680x1050 widescreen, I'm alot happier with it actually.

@MagnoliaBoy:
A 1680x1050 widescreen? Yeah. That's nice.
But not as nice as TWO of them. HAHAHA!

I would never enjoy this as much as the new sports car it would cost.

Will this work with my Windows 95?

I'm all for bigger screens - I have a 30" now and if Dell or some good company made a 40" screen (not TV trying to be a monitor) I would gladly upgrade.

This solution however wouldn't be anything I would want as the thick borders breaking up the screen defeats the puprose. I'd rather have one 30" than two 22" screens.

Can you play games on this? I mean can a graphics card really drive this many multiple screens on Crysis? Is it not better just to get 1 big HDTV?

@Rabid Penguin: easy to fix. just sit farther back...

... but wait, then the screen doesn't feel so big ...

... so we can add more screens to make it bigger!!!

@Joseph: or ... some, you know. adult entertainment.

...

...

like GTA4?

So are you causing rolling blackouts in the neighborhood yet?

Think of the electric bill alone...

I say, "This guys compensating for something, eh donkey?"

In Soviet Union, 15-Monitor Setup watches YOU!

@froggy: (whispers conspiritorially) What's the joke? (/whisper)

@Darrone: Nice swordfish reference.

What's the point of all this? You know how people complain about the odd dead pixel on their screens, what makes you think great big black gaps running length and breadth wise, wont be a million times more annoying?

And how many SLI-ing or crossfiring would you have to do before you get any setup remotely close to being able to deal with this kind of fill rate?

One advantage for the multiple monitor approach versus one big monitor is that it doesn't have to be flat. In the picture above you can see that the end columns of monitors have been turned in slightly.

I run 2 21' monitors.

meh, a single stereoscopic monitor is better.

i run on 4 22inch rims... wait we are talking about the monitors... well i have a 15inch on my laptop

@Loonie:

How many sli or xfire to run this? I don't know if this is common knowledge but xfire and sli don't support even dual monitors. Yes you can have two cards and run like four monitors but you won't be using sli or xfire.

Hope those are not TN panels otherwise half of them won't be viewable.

Now if only each of those was a configurable button as well.

THEN we'd have something.

That's really really nice, aside from the BIG BLACK FREAKING GRID COVERING THE PICTURE!!!

@Rabid Penguin: That always annoyed the hell out of me, too.
It's like, "Hey, check out my 1000+HP car." which then only turns out to be 10 Grand Prix tied together. Meh. Really missing that whole "continuity" thing.