“How would you use the six monitors shown above?”

I’m gonna speak for most of us here and put it simply: Big Porno.

It’s completely impractical for home entertainment, save for maybe a flight sim. The only real use for this would be for trade shows, or maybe if you are doing professional things, like producing movies or music, in which case they’d most likely be placed be side by side. I feel a need for continuity in a screen for fullscreen movies or games.

DAMN! someone beat me to the porn display.. how bout a webcam display to replace the window you covered up

With multiple monitor support becoming so popular and used. Games need to start coming out with peripheral vision for the left and right monitor more.

I have to agree with xGROMx: While we’re being excessive, why NOT 6 HD projectors multiplexed together? Solves the ‘gaps in the screen’ problem, and you’d likely get a screen the size of a building instead of a measly wall.. ;)

1st screen – hackaday
2nd – facebook
3rd – email
4th myspace……..haha. Be a dream setup.

SUP-COM!

If you remove the bevels on the monitors, it would be very possible to play gams with the setup. I wouldn’t recommend it for serious gaming, but for messing around with your friends, it would be perfect. AND if they are all projectors? you could set them up seamlessly and play games with a nice resolution on your projector.

The Eyefinity system lets you set up to 6 monitors per card any way you want. Apparently if you have more cards (and more monitors) you can treat them ALL as one big display. They had some 24 monitor single PC monstrosity playing WoW at some daft res, and it looked great.

having 3 by 1, or 5 by one would be best for most FPS, anything odd.

Cant wait

I gotta agree with you for the m{ost|ain} part, nicely put.

I use three monitors for web development. One for my IDE, one for browsers, and one for my debugger.

@Random: http://www.stocktradingtogo.com/2007/08/29/the-ultimate-trading-system-a-24-monitor-setup/

6xHD projectors, the heating off and all 15.000 photographs of iPhoto finally in one view, ready to be sorted ;-)
Setups like the one shown with the bezels have been used in the past in combination with Fresnel lenses to hide the gap. That might make a more affordable solution than 6xHD projectors.

Five for work and one for porn. Well maybe four for work, one for porn and one for gaming.

I have used a multiplex for driving now old skool CRT monitors, we used 3 banks of 9 monitors, the multiplex will distrubute a single feed to all nine and you have a frame edge toggle to adjust the amount of frame edge! This does provide a farely seemless screen although it does look like looking at a screen through a window!

Id use this for VJ setups but its a bit crappy as i like to have a hardware mixer before my final output! A well back to the multiplex!

Everyone has already said that this would be useless for gaming, so surely the best use for this is monitors in different rooms? or monitors on different walls (why should the TV be the focal point of a living room when we can have the display on every wall (and the ceiling and floor).

This post is HACKTASTIC! :P

i like this idea , i wanted to make a wall out of ould laptops networked together is that posible has any one ever herd any way of doing this ?

I have a pc hooked up to a 42″ plasma, resolution goes down the larger you get, it’s good for movies and online viewing, but games? I tried one, i didn’t like it, too pixelated.

@Sean “I wouldn’t recommend it for serious gaming, but for messing around with your friends, it would be perfect. ” Indeed, not for that mission-critical gaming, only the fun sort. FFS.

Considering that each of the screens is much higher than full HD, there’s not that much point in movies on it unless you have a *very* good source from somewhere. Cinema projection is only half of the display area, as far as I can see, at best.

I’m in the THIS IS NOT A HACK crowd too…. I already subscribe to a dozen or more general tech/gadget news feeds…. PLEASE do not turn HACK A DAY in to just one more!…

Porn.

Its probably already been said, but thats what I’d use 6 monitors for. Honestly.

I smell a monitor project to remove the LCD housing!

xrazorwirex is right that you could, probably, shrink the amount of lost screen space by removing the plastic bezel entirely. The thing I’ve always wondered was, with flat panel displays, why people don’t just put alternating screens slightly behind their neighbor. That way you could put one bezel behind the other and cut the total amount of bezel in half. You could use the screen controls to compensate for any perspective issues and they would be even less of a problem if you took xrazorwirex’s advice and removed the plastic casing.

The only thing I don’t like about this is the borders around the monitors. The dead zones are pretty bad.

Umm…I would probably use it like I do a video projector. Oh wait, my video projector doesn’t have a grid-like pattern to it because of all of the LCD frames! Sure, it might not have the resolution, but what games/movies actually support a resolution of over 7000×3000???

mission control. Why should NASA have all the fun?

There is a similar setup like this in the movie “Gamer”.

I’m gonna be daft and say light show. My LCD gives off insane amounts of light, unbearable when everything else is dark, but it’d work fucking great for a light show. yah would probably look a little janky if they’re all just stacked like that, but would still be fun.

This one is easy: 6 projectors. Now I can play on a LOT of bulidings!

screen 1 porn
screen 2 porn
screen 3 porn
screen 4 porn
screen 5 webcam to watch for boss/old lady sneaking in on you
screen 6 shared with all the work your supposed to be doing

Ok, alright, jeeez. enough.

No, you can’t get seamless if you remove the bezels. the bezels cover the board ends where the matrix connections go.
Nobody builds an LCD that can be matched pixel contiguous on the edges. Otherwise You’d already see ridiculous composite screens.
And, yes, maybe somebody, someday, will figure out a multilayer board that’ll let the edge connections migrate behind the PCB. And manufacture to a tolerance that lets all the edges line up to within mask width.
Someday. not now, and not soon.

If you’ve never seen a naked LCD screen, You a newbie, and keep your ignorance in the newbie sites. go haunt the clan caves.

No, you Can’t use any old video card or collection thereof. The whole point to this is one HUGE GPU working out of one HUGE framebuffer. anything else requires off chip transport. If you know how to shove PCIE2 raw bus signal 9 or nine feet, or make a cable with about 30X the fidelity of HDMI, you should call AMD. PCI 66Mhz is painfully slow at these data rates.
Even Eyefinity/Crossfire, only transfers post processed results. and that’s on a private bus.

Yes, you could use Projectors instead of monitors.
But, this graphic shows each monitor running at NATIVE resolution. none of this 720P dithering crap.

And, projectors die, suck extreme power, heat entire buildings, color matching is witchcraft.
And if you’ve never tried to match the edges of more than one projection image trying to keystone
each lens, then just glory in your naivete, and be quiet.

No, you can’t get an even similar result with multiplexing. Multiplexing just times the signal,
and blots each pixel bigger. the resulting resolution is no higher than the original framebuffer

You’d get about the same result as one of those Fresnel lens kits hung on an old 3 gun projector TV.

There would be all kinds of uses for this kind of native resolution well beyond techno babysitting with WOW. and no, I ain gonna tell you.

As far as this being Hack-a-day material, the hacks that could be built over this are staggering.

This site is not here to feed would be tinkering fools. For that check out Makezine and the wonderful things done with foam coolers and cardboard.

Here, you bring bring your own imagination.

I wanted to do this 10 years ago, but I couldn’t find 6 monochrome VGA in the flea market

six 30″ moniters?!?! i have one 19″ and it is more than big enough for videogames, internet, music, and porn