LG intros M3800S-BN / M2900S-BN stretched display monitors in UK

Though not the first stretched display we've seen per se, LG is taking widescreen to an entirely new plateau with its latest duo of monitors. Launched today in the UK, the 38-inch M3800S-BN and 29-inch M2900S-BN feature oddball resolutions like 1,366 x 398 and 1,366 x 480 (respectively) along with a 1,000:1 contrast ratio, 9-millisecond response time and a VGA input. Obviously geared for digital signage applications, both units can display imagery horizontally or vertically, and while price points weren't disclosed, we'll go ahead and assume that they'll be pegged for purchase on those business-centric credit cards (if you catch our drift).

[Via Pocket-lint]

[Peter @ Jun 2nd 2008 11:09PM]

Those resolutions suck. 480 pixels? Please, my iPod touch has 480 pixels on one side too. Not to mention this is 38-inches, thus rendering anything displayed on it completely unviewable.

[iEye @ Jun 2nd 2008 11:22PM]

:)

[John @ Jun 2nd 2008 11:25PM]

...you honestly don't get it, do you.

A comment from iEye that supports you should make you ashamed anyhow.

[Haikibutsu @ Jun 2nd 2008 11:45PM]

Get a life asshole.

[Colin Potter @ Jun 3rd 2008 12:12AM]

unviewable?? are you new? seriously. here, I made a picture in that resolution just to prove a point... check it out.. its entirely viewable....

http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/7187/1366480yn6.jpg

[mark @ Jun 3rd 2008 1:28AM]

they're designed for commercial applications (eg advertising boards). The average person viewing one of these will be at least 10ft away so there's no need for a higher resolution

[Matt @ Jun 3rd 2008 2:43AM]

"and me and my wife and iPhones"

Please! If you're going to troll, at least have the manners to use good grammar.

"My wife and I own iPhones"

[phanbouy @ Jun 3rd 2008 2:49AM]

all your iphones are belong to us

[Jaque-o @ Jun 3rd 2008 3:19AM]

*Pictures a realdoll holding an iPhone*

Just doesnt do it for me


Ontopic though, thats one sexy screen !
Hook me up !

[Ninjakamster (PS360 FTW!) @ Jun 2nd 2008 11:09PM]

Now thats widescreen!

[OSnix*-geek @ Jun 2nd 2008 11:12PM]

Looks like hd 720p+cinemascope (2.33:1).

[OSnix*-geek @ Jun 2nd 2008 11:16PM]

Addendum: if you're watching a letterboxed/cinemascope movie (you know like the resolution they actually show in the theater) on a 720p capable tv you're not going to see much more than what you see on these LG resolutions. You're just wasting black pixels on the top and the bottom, that is unless you have subtitles on, and they are overlapping onto the letterbox area.

I get it, but I would still just buy an HD 1080p tv, even if they offered a 1920x720 screen.

[I LOVE THE CAPS LOCK KEY @ Jun 3rd 2008 12:26AM]

Correction, CinemaScope is 2.66:1

[jerry jones @ Jun 2nd 2008 11:12PM]

2.35:1 would be cool..

[facebookfake @ Jun 2nd 2008 11:23PM]

If you desperately want to view 2.35:1 natively I have one word:

projector.

[peekinde @ Jun 2nd 2008 11:23PM]

its longer than the golden rectangle = wtf?

[computer.dude.28 @ Jun 2nd 2008 11:25PM]

I just have 2 19" screens @ 1080x1024 that I stretch 2.whatever:1 movies across. Gap subtracted, there's 30 inches of video. The only problem is the 1 inch gap between em, but I got used to that.

[computer.dude.28 @ Jun 2nd 2008 11:28PM]

1280x1024, sorry everyone!

Bring on the Edit button!!

[Haikibutsu @ Jun 2nd 2008 11:38PM]

Honestly, I don't see the point in stretching it across only 1 plane. Rather than giving the convenience of more space, it is a bit too much space laterally and too little vertically.

In flash, it annoys me a bit how I have tons of space on the sides but barely any space vertically.

Now, this would be pretty epic if it could be rotated sideways, so you could read stuff vertically.

[Drew Scott @ Jun 3rd 2008 12:02AM]

"both units can display imagery horizontally or vertically"

[sinjinn @ Jun 3rd 2008 12:02AM]

they already have those that stretch both vertically and horizontally. this a niche product which gives lots of space but wont dominate its surroundings.

[BigD145 @ Jun 2nd 2008 11:45PM]

Oh no. More advertising at the checkstand in your local grocery store. If I have to duck under this thing just to pay for my damn food, I'm going to kill and eat the store manager.

[james @ Jun 2nd 2008 11:54PM]

I'd love to up the res a bit and make those desktop monitors. 1 widescreen isn't enough, and 2 widescreens is too much. I prefer my 2 normal monitors, but a seamless display that wide would be awesome for work.

[kle0012 @ Jun 3rd 2008 12:24AM]

These monitors aren't meant for consumers. They're meant for leaderboard advertisers, for use in places like casinos, restaurants and hotels, where you see these in action all the time.

A quick Google search will return you hundreds of other models from a wide array of suppliers, including Sony and Samsung, boasting the same industry standard 2:35:1 ratio.

[mindstorms @ Jun 3rd 2008 4:25AM]

Can you point me to one of these monitors? I've been trying to find one in this ultra wide screen format for a while, and I never seem to be able to find any...

[kle0012 @ Jun 3rd 2008 10:47AM]

http://home.nestor.minsk.by/computers/news/2006/10/1110.html
http://reviews.cnet.com/flat-panel-tvs/nec-plasmasync-50xp10/4505-6482_7-32797494.html
http://www.kpower.com.au/product/i/134110/n/fwd50px3s-public-display-plasma-sil.html

Here's some links to a few different models in various formats. LG does take honours for coverage, but they are available if you look for them. Try ringing your local supplier, I'm positive they'll be able to put you onto somebody who can give you some details. These types of monitors generally aren't available to just anybody, but rather commercial customers, like casinos and hotels, as mentioned previously.

[Blanka @ Jun 3rd 2008 1:36AM]

Most special size LCD's seem to be nice cut-jobs instead of new panels. Thats why the resolution is like this. So pleazze go square now! I want a 1200x1200 panel at 60x60cm for arcades!

[Colin Potter @ Jun 3rd 2008 1:53AM]

I like CRTs in arcades... mostly cuz arcades feel old school to me

[Blanka @ Jun 3rd 2008 1:59AM]

First I thought that too, but I really start to like the the way the blockiness of old school games is visible at high res LCD's. Also blackness of new LCD's is getting good enough for Pac-Man and co. On the other hand, I have found the perfect OpenGL tridot overlay that makes the LCD image almost identical to a classic CRT one. You can even add curvature if you like.

[Colin Potter @ Jun 3rd 2008 2:10AM]

Micheal Moore just blew up on my TV

but umm... back on topic


I don't know, maybe its just growing up with a welfare arcade, that just closed recently and still had Mortal Kombat II (original case and everything) as one of the best games, but if the game is coin op, it should have a CRT screen or a shiny metal ball :D

[Kris K @ Jun 3rd 2008 1:55AM]

Give me one that will fit the Marquee space on my MAME cabnet - that way any time I load a MAME ROM this monitor displays the proper Marquee of the Game Im playing....

Now thats consumer use for this!

[ken @ Jun 3rd 2008 4:32AM]

Does this make me look fat?

[Conor Maher @ Jun 3rd 2008 10:04AM]

These were obviously designed for advertising adult toys :o

[stevediesel @ Jun 3rd 2008 8:12PM]

ive always wanted an anamorphic widescreen tv!

[dvtt88 @ Jun 6th 2008 9:09AM]

Anyone know where I can download a driver for This screen I don´t have the right settings options to view the hole screen without something is missing. And i´m Not sure if i use the M2900S version or the M3800s.

[dvtt88 @ Jun 6th 2008 9:13AM]

where can i get the drivers for this screens?

[Eric @ Aug 20th 2008 2:43AM]

cool
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