NEC To Offer Immersive, Curved Display

LAS VEGAS -- First Alienware unveiled its curved display earlier this week. Off the CES show floor, NEC showed me today its own Curved Display. The Curved Display uses the same CRVD-LMD screen from Ostendo Technologies as Alienware's will.

The NEC Curved Display will be aimed at gaming and financial users, but I think the applications can go further. When sitting in front of the display, I truly felt immersed in the screen environment. Suddenly, having a 42-inch wide display didn't feel overwhelming, as it does when I sit down in front of three large ordinary panels angled together. I can see this setup being conducive for other types of computing, such as image and video editing, watching movies, and even multitasking across multiple applications.

Unfortunately, the display is huge, so you'll need plenty of room: It's deep, and weighs 25-pounds. The depth is because there's a rear-projection DLP unit behind the display--actually, four DLP projections in all, each projecting to one of the four screens that together make up a panel.

The NEC unit uses LED backlights (red, green, and blue), and carries a native resolution of 2880 by 900 (a 3.2:1 aspect ratio). NEC expects the display to ship later this year.

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