Fujitsu's curved plasma displays make Roman columns look a little dated
By Tim Stevens 
posted May 13th 2010 3:34PM
posted May 13th 2010 3:34PM
What, your plasma display is flat? How very quaint! Fujitsu would like to make you feel a little less adequate by showing you the wonder that is a curved PDP, seen here stretched around a column for the sake of providing digital signage. Yes, it's perhaps a somewhat boring duty, and not quite as awe-inspiring as the company's massively curvaceous installation at Kansai airport. But, if you're looking for a way to show off orange silhouettes on a field of light blue, baby it doesn't get much better than this.
I prefer the phased plasma display in the 40 watt range.
INDUSTRY MAKES THIS SHIT BUT CANT MAKE A FREAKIN CURVED LCD WITH 21:9 RATIO with 1200px height?
Dear Industry, you could sell a monitor to everyone on earth. big market. Stop making crap tn panels that cant even display as much depth as any crt. Stop making the same monitor over and over. Stop stickin 1366x768 panels everywhere. Stop calling HD to resolutions that any 1989 crt can do.
@doutorpiranha
CALM DOWN if they built your curved TFT, NO-ONE WOULD BE ABLE TO AFFORD IT !
@doutorpiranha
I was like, "I don't want that", but then I had to stop lying to myself. 2800x1200 would be pretty awesome, even though I may prefer 16x10 screens for aesthetic reasons.
Also, I'm with you on 1366x768. Man, the person who decided that was a good idea needs a good punch in the sack, and so does everyone who agreed with him. >:(
@doutorpiranha
Calm down! It's not like Industry is some twisted old dude hell-bent on irritating you with products that you don't understand the need for.
Industry makes what it can sell profitably. If it doesn't make something, it's because it can't sell it profitably. One day they will. In the mean time, chill out.
I remember seeing an ad for Elcor Hamlet on these
@rTwelve Humble Acknowledgment Human.
@rTwelve
14 hours of pure awesome. Definitely go see it.
Reminds me of those interactive advertisement displays in Mass Effect.
@octoberasian
Beat me to it. I was about to say the exact same thing.
@octoberasian I didn't know where I remember this from but that was it!
Up ranked!
@octoberasian Beat me to it.
@Prevacator
Ditto
@octoberasian
"Shepard, you were recently dead."
Beam me up, Scotty.
"What, your plasma display is flat? How very quaint!"
one of the better opening lines i've seen in a while. lol
This may be better than the roman stuff, but has got nothing on the Parthenon's columns
They should totally put up a photo of an ionic column on that thing. Ionic *and* ironic FTW!
With tech lke this, you could eventually put together your own home IMAX theater.
Mmmmm....curvacious.
Zordon?!
Orgasmatron!
Make it display a wallpaper of a Roman column
@Mithinco hhahaha
wicked.
I think they should invert the display and turn the column into a shower.
I saw the photo before reading the headline and thought "Oh my God, they've made a teleporter!"
My old CRT is curved...
flat screens were all the rage, now we want curved? I want to watch TV from the inside of a ball.
If they used two monitors separated right in the middle, they blew it....
Best use for this: STD-Free Strippers!
Boy, this demonstration is really demonstrating the color depth and contrast ratio of plasma.
Back in the 80s and 90s, manufacturers were scrambling to make all the screens flat. Now they want to make them curved.
What a world we live in.
I wish they'd work on concave viewing plasma displays in the 120" diagonal range so I can put one in a home theater. I have no need or want for a convex display.
So... they're curved, but not bendable?
Thats the way LCD bezels should be... approaching seamless.
We've had similar tech in the UK for a long time. (Im not sure what it is, but its definitely a curved screen).
Problem is, they always break down and blue screen... literally!
Makes me laugh though.
@Davo Yep, theses have been wrapped round several pillars in a carpark in my part of North London for a couple of years now (might not be plasma, but similar, if lower res) - they do seem to spend the majority of their time displaying large curved BSODs!
so, again, what was the use of a rounded display? does it mean I'll have to catch the image around the column?
These things are interesting, although a mere novelty. I see no real life use for this, outside marketing ends.