Productive Display 4:3

August 8, 2012

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I would like to buy a display which allows me to overview a huge space.

I have two 24" display (1920x1200) and a 19" (1280x1024) display on my desktop. And I need more space. Therefore I want to exchange the center 24" displays with a display with 2560x1600 pixels. Unfortunately the new dell 2713 display only has 2560x1440/16:9. Why? [redacted] Nobody wants to watch movies without black border on such a screen. You buy such a screen to work or to play. 16:10 is better for this and if you want to watch a movie you will take the black borders. If you don't have enough money for buying a TV you get get a 24" for 99 euros which is 500 euros cheaper than the u2713. You don't buy such a device just for fun.

So now I need more space for a 30". But even this is a waste of space. If I watch at my center 24" I can see a lot above the screen. Why? I do not need to see the wall behind the screen, it would be better to get information here.

I would like buy a 30" or 32" 4:3 screen: 2560x1920. The width is smaller compared to 30" 16:10 displays, so the display can be bigger on top. Fill my visual field, there is space left - on top of usual wide-screens. It would help me to write my software and the resolution and the physical area is big enough to split the screen. To put an Editor/Textprocessor on the left side, were I can see a lot of lines, a console on the lower right side and a webbrowser/mediaplayer/whatsoever on the upper right side. It's an 16:9 display with an integrated 16:3 display on top. ;-)
This is no display for the common. It's a productive display. You can advertise it like a desktop-whiteboard. It's big, it's needs space on the desktop, it's not for the living root, it's for work.

It would be great for CAD. Unfortunately it would have big black borders if you watch a 21:9 cinema movie. But hey, you also have black borders on a 16:9 display. Maybe there should be devices for watching movies and devices for productive work.
Could you please design a display for work? I already have a television.

I would pay about 1000 euros for such a display without thinking. I would think about it until 1300 or 1500.
Beyond 1300 Euros the price-performance ratio is getting worse than the 16:10 display.

I put this as a "new product idea". I know that there are already 4:3" displays. But you cannot get 4:3 above 21"  or higher resolutions like 1600x1200. So this would be a product without any competition. This device would be unique. If you make it uncompromising, you have an Apple-Like produkt. It's not cheap, but it's worth it and it's reasonable. And if it's not ugly you additionally can sell it to people who like to be individual and to explain why such a device is better and more produtive than the usual stuff.

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  • Aug 9, 2012     Comment Link

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    Thank you for the additional information.  The intended use helps when an idea becomes popular enough to get passed to our idea partners.  
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  • Aug 9, 2012     Comment Link

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    Hey, Cy_j
     
    > You currently have two 24 inch monitors that you want to replace with a larger single monitor for more space. Is that correct?

    More space is appreciated. But the main reason is the focus point. On work I have two 20" display. The frame between them is in front of me. So I always have to look to the left or to the right to be focused on the display I am interessted. It's not relaxing.

    At home I am using a set of 2 24" displays and an additional 19" computer. To work relaxed I use one of the 24" in front of me. Right to it is a 24" display. Usually I only use the left side of it, because the right side is out of my focus.

    > What model monitors are you using on your current set up?

    Center is a Dell 2405, on the left is a 20" Belinea (4:3), on the right a 24" Samsung (no Pivot).

    >You mention watching movies and doing work on your system. Are you doing both or simply mentioning the movie
    >watching as it relates to screen dimentions?

    Forget about the movies. The whole setup is for work and creativity.

    Most of my work is programming, administration, a little bit of webdesign, image processing, some cad, text processing.

    > I currently use two U2412M 24 inch monitors with one in portait mode and the other in landscape mode

    I tryed that. This solution is not satisfying for several reasons:

    1) As you see I have to turn the monitor all the day. I only can have one monitor directly in front of me:
         Programming (portrait), Imageprocessing (landscape), Textprocessing (portrait), CAD (landscape).
         That a problem because of all the cables.
    2) If you move a window from one display to another the mouse pointer get stucked, because the landscape monitor
         has no display on top of the portrait monitor.
    3) I still have the frames between both monitors.
    4) It's just a compromise. Why is there no good solution?

    Now imagine four let's say 17" Displays. You put them together to one single display. This would be 2560x2048.
    You can focus on point 1280x1024 without a frame cross cutting your sight. And you still have enough place around your
    focus point. There is enough space for comfortably editing on the left side, you can see a lot of text over the full height.
    As you know information is aranged vertically. You cannot follow a text line on a 24" monitor, so it cannot be the concept
    of a display to present data fullscreen. With a widescreen display you simply loose height to overview your data.

    So you have your data on a resolution of 1280x2560 and you still have enough space for a webbrowser in standard
    resolution (1280x1024) for enquiry and a console (1280x1024). For CAD or Imageprocessing or movie processing
    you can have a full view of 2560x1600 (widescreen) and have additional 448 pixels for control windows over the full width.
    And even if it's no gaming display it would be great for gaming.

    That would be an 34" 4:3 display.

    I know that noone produces such displays, so you cannot simply buy a display, put a casing around it and sell it.
    You have to ask for it as I have to ask.

    The display is not interesting for gamers. But I guess that such would find professional buyers. I would like it as a developer
    and I am developer of CAD software. As far as I see, our customers prefer 4:3 inch displays.
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    I have a couple of questions on the idea to make sure I understand correctly.  
    1. You currently have two 24 inch monitors that you want to replace with a larger single monitor for more space.  Is that correct?
    2. What model monitors are you using on your current set up?
    3. You mention watching movies and doing work on your system.  Are you doing both or simply mentioning the movie watching as it relates to screen dimentions?
    I currently use two U2412M 24 inch monitors with one in portait mode and the other in landscape mode in order to accomodate all the information I view on a regular basis.  Much like this:

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    I wasn't sure if such a set up would meet your needs.