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One Toshiba 22-Inch Monitor = 55 Samsung 22-Inch Displays

At least from the point of view of the price tag

Nov 2, 2007 15:41 GMT  ·  By
  

Over time, the Japanese over at Toshiba have managed to come up with a large number of interesting computing systems and peripherals, including here several PC monitors. However, none of the company's previous offerings can even come close to their latest announcement, namely a 22-inch (56.4-cm) PC display that features a whopping W-QUXGA resolution (that's 3840 x 2400!!!).

Although the device has not received an official name for the time being, Toshiba has released some of its most important features and specs. Thus, beside the aforementioned huge resolution, the display has a 0.1245mm x 0.1245mm pixel pitch (which was to be expected, also taking into account the resolution), a brightness level of 235 cd/m2, a contrast level of 300:1 and no less than 1677 million colors.

The TFT LCD monitor also features a 120-degree horizontal viewing angle, a 100-degree vertical viewing angle and is not even that bulky, measuring just around 567mm x 524mm x 220mm. Furthermore, it sports connects to a computer via a DVI-D interface, which comes with a 3-meter cable, and "eats up" around 130 W of power.

After you've seen what this thing can do, it's about time to explain the title. Thus, Toshiba has announced that their new monitor will retail (when it hits the shelves, presumably at some point in the second half of 2008) for around 2,079,000 Japanese Yen, which is the equivalent of no less than 18,000 US dollars, a sum that could easily purchase around 55 equivalent displays (at least from the diagonal size's point of view) from Samsung, for example. This is why the possibility of this thing enjoying a high level of success outside of a small niche market (graphic artists, visual effects editors, etc.) is quite remote, especially since one would need a hell of a powerful graphics card in order to output the aforementioned resolution.

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