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NEC's 43 in., 31:10 curved monitor commands $8,000 price tag

By | June 4, 2009, 8:58am PDT

Summary: If money is no object and total immersion is your goal, NEC’s CRV43 — a 43 in. curved display with a 2880 by 900 pixel resolution — is paramount to your setup. The downside? Besides another month to wait (it’s due in July), this beast will set you back a horrific $7,999. [ZDNet Image Gallery: NEC's 43-in. [...]

If money is no object and total immersion is your goal, NEC’s CRV43 — a 43 in. curved display with a 2880 by 900 pixel resolution — is paramount to your setup.

The downside? Besides another month to wait (it’s due in July), this beast will set you back a horrific $7,999.

[ZDNet Image Gallery: NEC's 43-in. 31:10 curved monitor]

More specs: 200 nits brightness rating, 10,000:1 contrast, 0.02ms response time, covers 99.3 percent of Adobe’s RGB color gamut, and it offers a USB 2.0 jack and DVI-D and HDMI 1.3 connectors.

Oh, and did I mention the CRV43’s 32:10 aspect ratio?

The display is designed for use in applications such as professional graphics, higher education, government, financial, command & control and home office. If you’re wondering, the user’s taskbar is extended natively.

From the press release:

“The NEC CRV43 curved display provides an excitingly immersive viewing experience for any type of user,” said Keith Yanke, Director of Product Marketing for NEC Display Solutions. “Its lightning-fast response time coupled with its seamless curved screen provides enhanced comfort, decreased frustration and increased productivity. The monitor eliminates the bezel and screen gap issues that have complicated users’ work environment for years.”

Full specs:

  • Seamless curved screen, which eliminates bezel and screen gap issues for increased productivity and decreased frustration (according to Center for Human-Computer Interaction - Shupp et al, presented at Graphics Interface 2006)
  • 2880 x 900 double WXGA native resolution
  • 200 cd/m² brightness
  • 0.02ms Rapid Response
  • 10,000:1 contrast ratio
  • Wide color gamut with 100% coverage of sRGB and 99.3% coverage of Adobe RGB
  • Single link DVI-D and HDMI 1.3 input connectors
  • USB 2.0 connectivity for easy use of peripherals
  • Front panel controls
  • On Screen Display and software-based GUI, which enables advanced display control options

The NEC CRV43 curved display is backed by a three-year parts and labor warranty, including the backlight. As I mentioned before, it will be available for July 2009 shipment with an estimated street price of $7,999.

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ntp001 26th Dec 2010
As we all know, the first flat screens had an astronomous price, and now everybody has them. I wouldn't mind having one of theese sitting on my desk, maybe in 15 years.
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What about warping software?
Dorkyman 4th Jun 2009
Okay, a very-wide curving screen is great, but not if it is used to display a flat-plane image. To present a wide view accurately, a warping transformation needs to occur somewhere in the chain.
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drool............. i need one of these for my NOC
Been_Done_Before 4th Jun 2009
no really, i do!
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Only 900 pixels tall?
jmiller1978 4th Jun 2009
So it can't even support a 1080p source?
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Look at it this way...
Core2uu 4th Jun 2009
At least the 3.2:1 aspect ratio will get rid of the damn horizontal black bars. Now what would ruin that prospect would be the introduction of vertical black bars on sides, due to, of course, the aspect ratio.
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uhh, you're off by 90 degrees... nt
T1Oracle 4th Jun 2009
nt
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with such a monster price
nessrapp 5th Jun 2009
and no 1080p HD? what a smack on the face
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RE: NEC's 43 in., 31:10 curved monitor commands $8,000 price tag
goingbust 4th Jun 2009
Neat. But, nobody will buy it for this iteration. Maybe by the second or third generation they will get it down under a grand and be able to sell it.
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Bingo! 900 not even good for surfing
Charles Gordon 5th Jun 2009
Widescreen madness must stop! Manufacturers are getting away
with 900, 1050, and 1080 all the time theses days. Please. 1200
should be minimum., especially as software kelps adding even
more horizontal menus, ribbons, etc. What I wouldn't give for a 24
inch 4:3 LCD...
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RE: NEC's 43 in., 31:10 curved monitor commands $8,000 price tag
nessrapp 5th Jun 2009
and its not even HD? wth!!!
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I like the idea of placing 4 windowed apps all side by side on this
Dr_Zinj 5th Jun 2009
I don't suppose they also make this in a TOUCH-SCREEN model?
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Total waste of money!!
kckn4fun 5th Jun 2009
Currently, I have two 19's (1280x1024 each) and one 24 (1900x1200) in between those guys-- for a total of 42in of screen space-- mind you, my NVidia card can accept one more 24, which would probably be mounted above the existing 24, if I ever needed it, which I can tell you, most people don't. However, back to those that do.

If you add up the cost, to put together this system took an SLI-capable motherboard and two NVIDIO FX570's. Plus the monitors-- and when you invest in nice graphics cards, you don't chince on monitors.

All told, it was ~$1500 for the whole setup (on top of the machine cost).

Why, in the name of showoff stupidity, would I pay a $6500 premium for this thing (Not even considering the cost of the graphics card that would support this beast)?

ESPECIALLY, when there isn't even a graphics card that can support it (yet).

Furthermore, since it is one monitor, simple actions like minimizing, maximiming, and cascading would take on a whole different behavior instead of being segmented to their respective displays. Oh yeah, and since all three of my monitors are INDEPENDENTLY arm mounted, all I do is pull and rotate to change the screen orientation on any one between landscape or portrait. This is particularly handy in Excel and Lightroom on the 24" display.

My coworkers with their big 37" displays sitting on their desks DROOL over the flexibility of independent monitors and kick themselves for wasting their budget dollars on those inflexible monsters on their desks.

So seriously, thanks NEC, but no thanks. Honestly, for productivity, it doesn't get better than the flexibility to combine, breakdown, and shift between multiple screens.

Maybe gamers will love this beast...maybe.
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Expensive gimmick
558742 5th Jun 2009
This monitor works out as approximately 0.3 cents per pixel.
Compare that to the top spec iMac (yes you get a computer as
well with that!) which is only 0.09 cents per pixel and you
realise that it is a total rip off.

This is one for the person who has too much money and no
sense and wants to impress a non-tech savvy friend. Anyone
with the slightest bit of tech knowledge would laugh at them!
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T1Oracle 6th Jun 2009
It's for the few that actually need a display with that many pixels across. It's an extremely niche market product not an evil scheme. It's price reflects the expected low volume of sale.

I'm positive that it's market is incredibly tiny. When such a thing is under $3k (adjust for inflation of course) then it will be more relevant.
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Not 1080p capable
EricTheO 5th Jun 2009
This monitor can't even natively display 1080P HD content let alone future standards such as WHUXGA.
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There is no reason for this thing to exist.
drzaius 8th Jun 2009
This thing not only has a horrific price but also horrific specs. Brightness? Better be viewing it in a dark room. Resolution? The pixel pitch is so large it's going to be like looking at an image made of Lego blocks. Color gamut? Any number of main stream displays will do much better. I really can't imagine this display being very useful or desirable, even at 1/10th the price

You can get a Dell 30" that is almost as many pixels wide & almost twice as many high with specs that are better in almost every way for less than 1/4 the price.
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ntp001 26th Dec 2010
As we all know, the first flat screens had an astronomous price, and now everybody has them. I wouldn't mind having one of theese sitting on my desk, maybe in 15 years.

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