On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 04:09:57PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:

Finally LG and Samsung are beginning to reach "basic minimum specs for ideal monitor" - 49" ultrawide for immersion, 120Hz+ refresh for gaming (note, the LG is only 60Hz 'business class'), 5120 horizontal pixels, although in this case only 1440 vertical pixels - basically two side by side 27" 2560x1440 monitors without the bezel, which is pretty awesome.

The ultimate business/ programmer's monitor? Similar size, but with dual (side by side) "4K" resolution - ie. 7680x2160, and then your premium resolution is 10240x3840 (four "5K2K" monitors equivalent resolution).

https://www.samsung.com/au/monitors/c49rg9/

https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-49WL95C-W-ultrawide-monitor

Where std PC monitors are 16x9 ratio, and the "twin 27 inch" is therefore 32x9, the optimum monitor for an individual programmer/gamer --at a large monitor size--, is around the 21x9 mark. LG's "5k2k" (5120x2160) monitor is basically this ratio, but not curved. Not having seen one in the flesh, perhaps it is sufficient that it is not curved (only about 34inch diagonal). But the Next Frontier is higher res and larger surface area, and your typical office/boardroom 43inch (21x9 ratio) monitor really needs to be curved for a single close-up all-day user. And for immersive, greater width is needed, but 32x9 curved at 49inch diagonal which I have also seen in the flesh, does need greater height, at least for programmers and we can be almost certain that the extra real estate would be appreciated by gamers too. Thus, the idael universal (gaming + coding) monitor: ~ 21x9 ~ 55inch diagonal

= ~ 7680x3240 curved, tight radius ~1.5ft

For gaming with insufficient pixel grunt, simply halve the horizontal and/or vertical resolution. DP-2.0 with DSC will provide a b/w boost, hopefully "sufficient" for gaming, otherwise support should be added for dual DP2 port bonding.

Any links on the emitting/ light generating version of optical rectennas/ nantennas? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_rectenna On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 04:02:55PM -0700, Steven Schear wrote:

In the early 80s I worked with Alvin Mark's, a very prolific inventor, who was one of the first to realize the great potential of optical rectennas. He also realized the possibility of running them backwards to create efficient color displays.

On Mon, Apr 29, 2019, 11:52 PM Zenaan Harkness wrote:

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A) There is one major step to "peak flat panel monitor" technology and that is active nano-aerials tuned per wavelength (RGB etc), which will eliminate the problems with various LCD (brightness, color gamut) and OLED (burn in) tech, from the point of view of programmers, digital graphic artists and other "dekstop" crowd computer users.

We've seen this tech in development for a little while now, for example with articles over at New-Atlas:

Nano antenna amplifies light by a factor of 1,000 https://newatlas.com/nano-antenna-amplifies-light/16460/

Optical antenna may allow LEDs to replace lasers in host of devices

https://newatlas.com/nano-optical-antenna-led-laser-optical-communications/3...

Graphene optical lens a billionth of a meter thick breaks the diffraction limit https://newatlas.com/optical-lens-one-billionth-meter-thick/41588/

Single photon emission from graphene quantum dots at room temperature https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05888-w

Let there be light: Controlled creation of quantum emitter arrays https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170522080752.htm

So no burn-in, tuned (perfect gamut) spectrum production, high lifetime and durability, maximum efficiency, infinite contrast (like OLED). That's active nano light emitting devices on the horizon, and what glorious ocular abundance we shall "soon" indulge in :) ...

https://patents.google.com/patent/US4972094 On Sun, Jun 30, 2019, 4:02 PM Steven Schear wrote:

In the early 80s I worked with Alvin Mark's, a very prolific inventor, who was one of the first to realize the great potential of optical rectennas. He also realized the possibility of running them backwards to create efficient color displays.

On Mon, Apr 29, 2019, 11:52 PM Zenaan Harkness wrote:

...

A) There is one major step to "peak flat panel monitor" technology and that is active nano-aerials tuned per wavelength (RGB etc), which will eliminate the problems with various LCD (brightness, color gamut) and OLED (burn in) tech, from the point of view of programmers, digital graphic artists and other "dekstop" crowd computer users.

We've seen this tech in development for a little while now, for example with articles over at New-Atlas:

Nano antenna amplifies light by a factor of 1,000 https://newatlas.com/nano-antenna-amplifies-light/16460/

Optical antenna may allow LEDs to replace lasers in host of devices

https://newatlas.com/nano-optical-antenna-led-laser-optical-communications/3...

Graphene optical lens a billionth of a meter thick breaks the diffraction limit https://newatlas.com/optical-lens-one-billionth-meter-thick/41588/

Single photon emission from graphene quantum dots at room temperature https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05888-w

Let there be light: Controlled creation of quantum emitter arrays https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170522080752.htm

So no burn-in, tuned (perfect gamut) spectrum production, high lifetime and durability, maximum efficiency, infinite contrast (like OLED). That's active nano light emitting devices on the horizon, and what glorious ocular abundance we shall "soon" indulge in :)

B) In the meantime, ye olde hacker or Gimp photo shopper "just wants" LOTS of pixels, a large display with lots of pixels, a curved display (really for anything beginning at ~40" (16:9 aspect ratio) and above, probably with a 21:9 super wide display format.

Oh, and lots of pixels.

So how large is ideal for a desk bound keyboard code jockey?

Large enough to cover a goodly portion of muh field o' view!

Probably around the 55" mark tops, may be a bit less, but again, it simply must be curved, and at an ideal viewing distance from screen of under a foot (30cm for the rest of the world thank you very much), we needs lots of precious pixels - "8K", but stretched out to 21:9, is:

8960 x 3840 pixels, around 50 inch diagonal, 21:9 aspect ratio

That should be enough for anybody (with no apologies to anyone!).

So lots of pixels.

Finally, you can have either black or white external decor, but the inside edge MUST be held by white plastic!

For those who sit real close (and use a top or bottom of screen button/ icon/ window bar), a black (or metal/gray) internal clamp holding that beautiful screen in place, is a notable shadow!

So strict white on the inside to minimize "internal border" shadows, and black or white or as you please on the outside.

Today we're on the way, with LG pumping out a rather nice but oddly un-curved ultrawide 5K2K monitor. If it were curved, I'da bin beggin, borrowin and savin to buy one, but since it ain't curved, there's just one too many deficiencies to bother:

34" Class 21:9 UltraWide® 5K2K Nano IPS LED Monitor with HDR 600 (34" Diagonal) https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-34WK95U-W-ultrawide-monitor

In other words, this monitor, if it were curved, is roughly two thirds of the ideal monitor: just give it white internal clamp sections to avoid those internal border shadows, and expand it to the above resolution and size and boom, we're done!

1st world "problems" hey?