FIC's 40-inch Core Duo Lumina LCD PC

We can't say we're averse to these Lumina LCD PCs from FIC, and now that they've got a Core Duo chip inside, they're looking even tastier. Unfortunately, that's about all we know about this model. It's a 40-inch LCD -- we're guessing WXGA -- and houses Windows Media Center 2005, a TV tuner, 400GB HDD, 7.1 channel surround sound and WiFi. Otherwise we're in the dark, but there sadly doesn't seem to be a lot of HD connectivity.

[Jason Piper @ Jun 9th 2006 6:04PM]

now your TV can be obsolete as fast as your laptop™

[Matthew Campbell @ Jun 9th 2006 6:26PM]

^^^
That's 100% true.

[anon @ Jun 9th 2006 6:32PM]

Am I correct in thinking that such a huge display could house a vast array of electronics. Such as a multiple HDDs, several expansion slots, dual TV tuners, etc. If we could standardize side mounted hardware we could have upgradable computer systems that wouldn't become obsolete long before the monitor does.

[Jonathan Keim @ Jun 9th 2006 6:50PM]

This is the future of having a pc in your living room. It will probably take 3 years though. But like Jason said it will be obselete faster

[Perrey Z. @ Jun 9th 2006 6:57PM]

40" LCDs are no longer hip or cool., now everything cool is in the 46" and above. Integrated TVPCs are proven to be a failure, just like the old TV/VCR, TV/DVD combos.

When one, usually the video player damages the owner have to sent the entire unit for repairs and if that's their only TV {Hard to believe but...} then they are without a TV until the repairs are performed.

[SwiftBlue @ Jun 9th 2006 10:14PM]

Or, if you are creative, don't care about quality, and don't want to fork out multiple thousands of dollars, so what I did.

Two metal cases, wielded together. Toss in a P3 933 (I got for free and they are on eBay for >$50...But, a nice AMD T-Bird, or K6-2 400+ will work fine). Either an ATI Rage whatever, and an ATI TV ISA, or a All-in-Wonder128. Oh, and a crappy old sound card.

I just mounted a crappy CRT monitor in the spare space, created by wielding the two cases together, and loaded up 98se. Works like a charm, and I really don't care about HD. Also cost me absolutely nothing.

[GhostDoggy @ Jun 10th 2006 9:31AM]

Guessing WXGA? Given that the main obstacle in using LCD flat-panels at increasingly larger sizes is due to the difficulties in making an LCD pixel larger, I wouldn't be surprised if its not 1920x1080, or at least >WXGA. Now, if this were a plasma I'd be in agreement.

[DisplayBlog @ Jun 11th 2006 12:27AM]

GhostDoggy: Making LCD pixels larger does not pose difficulties. It is actually the other way around. If you meant to say scaling LCD pixels to make it larger without quality degradation, then I am in agreement with you. Plus, there is no pixel format greater than WXGA that is not 1920 x 1080 at 40". There are only three pixel formats for 40" and they are: 1280 x 768 (15:9 WXGA, used for industrial applications), 1366 x 768 (16:9 WXGA, used for TVs) and 1920 x 1080. On the plasma side, there aren't any 40" sizes as far as I know. If these guys were serious, they would have used a 40" with 1920 x 1080 pixel format to view full HD content and use it as decent monitor for data-heavy PC applications. As long as the PC innards are easily upgradeable, the LCD TV/PC concept is an interesting idea, IMO.

[lettcco @ Jun 12th 2006 7:04AM]

no comments about the chicks yet? damn I was hoping I can get a laugh or two...

[Q @ Jun 12th 2006 12:46PM]

I saw a bunch of comments about the chicks yesterday... it seems they were censored and deleted tho

[taihen @ Jun 12th 2006 6:08PM]

That's too bad... main reason why I read comments is for the funny/lewd comments directed at the models :/

[Jeff @ Jun 13th 2006 10:20AM]

Well, funny, lewd, or whatever, I think the chick on the right is super hot, and I would thoroughly enough doing naughty things to her. How's that?

And, yeah, I too came in here thinking the comments would be about them and not the technology. However, the first post here really does seem the most interesting. I can't believe I didn't think of that.