Testing the AMD HD 6990 with five screens - The more you see the more you like
Posted by Jon Peddie on April 12th 2011 | Permalink
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The first Eyefinity AIB we tested was the HD 5870 in October 2009 with six monitors in a 3x2 planar configuration. It was thrilling to see that much landscape but it quickly became apparent it wasn't the ideal setup for game play. The problems were the screen height was a bit too tall for learn forward FPSs, the planar setup made you lean back a bit and turn your head, and worst of all the gun sights landed right in the middle of the two rows of monitors—as one person said, the bezel becomes your gun sight; cute, but not very…
Handbook of Visual Display Technology
Posted by Jon Peddie on February 13th 2012 | Permalink
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Springer-SBM and Canopus Academic Publishing have announced the publication of the Handbook of Visual Display Technology. Across four volumes and more than 2600 pages, this comprehensive reference work covers all aspects of the science and technology behind displays, from the fundamentals of optics, vision and colour science, through electronic imaging, processing and manipulation, display driving, TFTs and materials science, flexible displays and touchscreens, display metrology, and concludes with a section on display markets and economic factors. Key sections are dedicated to specific display technologies: emissive displays including PDPs, LEDs and OLEDs; Paper-like displays including electrophoretics, electrowetting, electrofluidic and MEMS; 3D display systems…
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