Supersize my letterbox

[ffutures]

With 40" TVs around the £400 mark now, and even 50" going for around £750, I suppose that this is inevitable. New form factor, bit of marketing to say how crap all the old ones are, and you're selling like hot cakes...

I'd imagine that someone somewhere has house room for this thing - it certainly isn't me...

http://www.richersounds.com/product/lcd-tv/philips/56pfl9954/phil-56pfl9954

What worries me is that if the aspect ratio catches on, sooner or later most computer monitors will be made that shape, and it's going to be a bastard finding anything that has a decent height and resolution that isn't too wide to fit onto my desk.

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Re: Used to it

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At work I use two standard monitors side by side. It would be nice not to have the frames in the middle, but it does let me angle them. I believe there are extra-widescreen monitors which curve around you, but I hate to think how much they cost.

Ah, here we are, $8000. (Though it is also larger than my two put together.)