13-04-2005 02:11

Jessica Boucher

Re: pic: 120" of CD

Drat, I was totally going to do the exact same picture after class tomorrow.

13-04-2005 06:11

Jay H 237

Re: pic: 120" of CD

So, who's going to be the first one to put CD on an IMAX theater screen?

13-04-2005 09:05

Marc P.

Re: pic: 120" of CD

It's not the size that counts, it's how you use it!!

13-04-2005 09:07

Wetzel

Re: pic: 120" of CD

Let me check a few things and get back to you...


Wetzel

13-04-2005 09:53

jdiwnab

Re: pic: 120" of CD

I still think the 30" Apple display was more impressive because the resolusion is through the roof (Check the specs ) 2560x1600 is huge! Props for Safari though.

13-04-2005 10:15

dlavery

Re: pic: 120" of CD

I agree. Remember, what counts is not the size of your pixels but how many you have!

For the record, three 21" monitors is 4.9 million pixels, which just squeeks by the 4.0 million pixels on the 30" monitor, so I think that record holds until someone gets CD on two side-by-side 30" monitors (which, at this rate, should take until about 1:16 this afternoon... ).

-dave

13-04-2005 10:36

KyleGilbert45

Re: pic: 120" of CD

Those displays are really impressive. I guess I'm not cool anymore with my 176x220 pixel display. Motorola MPx220 ChiefDelphi

13-04-2005 10:46

dlavery

Re: pic: 120" of CD

But just think what you could do if you could array 106 of them together to show CD (and just squeek by the 4 million pixels on the 30" display)!!!

-dave

13-04-2005 17:06

Ali Ahmed

Re: pic: 120" of CD

I agree too. This was going through my projector on a screen at home but the resolution was horrible.

14-04-2005 00:48

Mike AA

Re: pic: 120" of CD

Dave, do you know where the giant screen (consisting of 12 or 16 LCD screens) which was in Einstein In Epcot when FIRST was in Disney went? That theoretically was well more than 4.9million.

14-04-2005 08:58

dlavery

Re: pic: 120" of CD

As far as I know those were Disney-provided displays, so theoretically they are still down at EPCOT somewhere. But i do remember that those displays were each NTSC-resolution (720x486 pixels) designed for video projection. So with an array of 12 of them, you only got up to 4.2 million pixels. An array of 16 would be 5.6 million. But in either case, did CD even get shown on the giant screen (if it never was, then that should be our new goal - get CD on the big screen at the Championships!)?
-dave

14-04-2005 10:50

Denman

Re: pic: 120" of CD

at a place in france called futuroscope there is a tv setup of a couple of hundred televisions, wired up to make the biggest in the world or something, however i cant find a picture...

14-04-2005 12:25

Elgin Clock

Re: pic: 120" of CD

TO answer your question.
No, those horses are not charging the crowds.
Yes, that is the worlds longest TV.

400 x 3520 pixel count...
http://www.popularmechanics.com/scie...s/1280871.html