Every once in a while, someone brings a product to market that just makes me think – why? Naturally, my second reaction is – ooo…can I get one? Such is the case with NEC’s CRV43 ultra-widescreen curved monitor. Essentially, what we’ve got here Bob (watch This Old House, and insert Norm Abram‘s accent here), is four DLP (digital light processing) screens stitched together with some fancy LED backlighting to deliver a whopping 2880×900 double WXGA native resolution, 0.02 second response time, 200 cd/m2 brightness and 10,000:1 contrast ratio.
Now settle down there Skippy. I know what you’re thinking…I thought the same thing – OMGZ!! games are gonna be unbelieveable with this thing. Not so much. This Enterprise bridge like display has a highly unusual 32:10 aspect ratio (standard widescreen is 16:9 or 16:10). Rather, NEC says that this monolith is targeted at high end users in the simulation, digital imaging as well as the command and control industries, which require lightning-fast response times, a broad field of view, greater dynamic range, wide color gamut and employ multiple monitor set-ups. In other words, not your typical home office setup.
Since this big ol’ monitor is DLP, it’s not exactly svelt in the dimensions department. Weighing in at 52.5 pounds, she’s not exactly going to get carried to the next LAN party. Have a look at the side views in the images below to get a better idea of just how wide and deep those hips run.
The users taskbar extends across the entire width of the monitor, which according to NEC increases productivity and lowers frustration by eliminating the bezel and screen gap issues that occur with multiple monitor setups. That, and it just looks really f@(*%#ing cool! Windows users, might not get the whole panache, but my mac peeps – imagine your bottom task bar just wrapped all the way around. Oh dear god…I can plz haz?
One input setup may be achieved thanks to a single DVI-D and HDMI 1.3 input connects. And while it should go without mentioning, Big Bertha also comes with usb 2.0 connectivity. The LED backlighting provides for a wide color gamut with 100 percent coverage of sRGB and 99.3% coverage of Adobe RGB.
Originally unveiled at the 2008 CES, NEC plans on bringing this behemoth to market new month. Bragging rights are going to set you back a bit though. At $7999, Bertha isn’t exactly cheap, and not the most cost effective multi-monitor solution, but seriously…just look at this thing.
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