The interesting thing about this 29” monitor is its unusual size. It has a 21:9 aspect ratio supporting 2560 x 1080 resolution. That’s effectively the same pixel count as my two 24” monitors, but without the cost of so much desktop real estate.
On the other hand, that’s a lot of pixels in a 29” display. As a practical matter, these aging eyes might not be able to appreciate the delivered reality.
Thinking back to my broadcast technology past I might love such a display if I were setting up a small multi-viewer.
Multi-viewers are the way that broadcast facilities monitor all the various signal these days. In the past there would be literally a wall of small video monitors. More recently a multi-viewer turns all the various sources into a Mega-Brady-Bunch-like array of windows, not unlike a video conference bridge on steroids.
In such applications the more pixels the better. High resolution displays allows for better quality display of all of the various signals, even if they are scaled into smallish windows.
This brings me to an idea that’s been bouncing around in my head. I’ve been thinking about the coming wave of 4K Ultra HDTV. Some of the punditry have been critical of 4K as being too bandwidth intensive to be practical. I think that there is merit in considering 4K as a display surface as something wholly separate from 4K as a means of delivering movies to consumers.
I’m very excited about 4k, but that will have to wait for another day.