Curved Computer Monitor

A new impressive display model stands out from the crowd, after it was exhibited at MacWorld, CES 2008 and SID 2008.

It is called a CRVD and comes from Ostendo Technologies. A CRVD is an ultra-wide curved display having a diagonal of 42.4 inches and backlighting provided by OSRAM Opto Semiconductors’ OSTAR-Projection high-performance LED light sources. These projection modules have 6 RGB LED chips generating outstanding brilliance and vibrant colors with pure surface emission and extreme brightness, based on OSRAM's Thinfilm and ThinGaN chip architecture.
It features a high native resolution of 2880 x 900 pixels, meaning double WXGA+, and is designed for desktop computers.

It has a curved computer monitor design to wrap around the user and impress with billions of colors, 300 nits brightness, and incredible high contrast ratio of 10,000:1.
Main applications for which DLP-based CRVDs would be a great monitor include gaming, simulation, financial analysis, digital imaging, and web content creation.

"It's an incredible display," said Tom Shottes, president and CEO of OSRAM Opto Semiconductors. "This is the first display that provides such a wide field of view with such dynamic range and wide color gamut. We've worked with Ostendo since they began developing the technology. The high luminance and design flexibility of our OSTAR-Projection technology was a perfect fit."

The curved computer monitor provides an extremely short response time of almost 0.02 ms, having 12-bit dynamic range, viewing angles of 90 degrees on horizontal/30 degrees on vertical, 0.36mm pixel pitch, 71 dpi, 3.2:1 aspect ratio, weighting 25 lbs.
It will be available on the market in quarter 4, 2008.