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In article <Bu8ysE.Ku9@iat.holonet.net> bwilliam@iat.holonet.net (Bill Williams) writes:
>>>>Can't be so.  Mitsubishi makes a 35" monitor.
>
>I believe the unit you speak of is FOUR TIMES SMALLER THAN MINE!!
>Explanation: when it was first announced (The Mitsubishi) I was willing to
>spend the 4,000 dollars for it (REALLY) but was told it ONLY DISPLAYED
>640*480 pixels!!!! My monitor is 1280*960 (my 24 inch Moniterm) and thus
>has FOUR TIMES AS MUCH SCREEN AREA than the "older" 35 inch tube you claim
>is bigger than mine (four times as less pixels)

Seventh grade geometry wasnt your specialty eh?  Area is height times
width.  The number of ways you choose to break up that fixed area does
not change the area.  As for 1280x960, youve still missed the 1280x1024
boat provided by PCs, which can be had on a fine 19" Sony monitor or a
fine 21" NEC monitor.  SGIs new RealityEngine does 1600x1280, though I
dont know which monitor they use.  Almost all modern workstations and
quite a few X terminals run at 1280x1024.

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>This 2048 by 2048 makes me disbelieve you if the current smalles trinitron
>pel element for a tri-phoshor group is 0.25 millimeters horizontally and
>(guessing) 0.4 millimeters vertically then for a vertical resolution of
>your claimed 2048 pel elements would measure (2048*0.4 mm = > 32 inches!!!!)
>Therefore either it is not a BRIGHT monitor using trinitron shadowmask,
>else it is A MARKETING LIE AND A TOTAL MYTH.

Youre making very bad assumptions.  Sony demonstrated two nice monitors
at the 1989 SIGRAPH conference.  The first was the 2048x2048 monitor, the
other was a 2048x1536 19" monitor.  The former is used by airline controllers,
the latter was a prototype to scope out interest.  Another booth had a really
nice fishtank shaped monitor and reel to reel video deck for displaying an
beyond HDTV recording format of 1910x1024.  There was also a projection booth
there with a Sony set rendering 1280x1024 (from one of their NEWS workstations)
on a 10 foot diagonal screen (yes, it was a multiscan system.)

>I rest my case. Until I see otherwise, I still believe that I have the
>worlds largest computer monitor.
>
>BWilliams

You really should get out more often.  SIGRAPH is held every year, and is a
great place to learn whats really going on out there.  -Steve