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Well, if I were to have both on my setup it would be like this

Please excuse my text, I have no tablet.

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+1 for the awesome .jpg lol.

Yeah that could work, my concern would be if you tried to use the big HDLCD from the desk area you would have to look up too much causing a neck pain or just being odd to look up instead of forward.

Right now with it just sitting on the desk you have to look up to see the top of the screen pretty much. I mean its big. If I raised it up even 17" to be over the top of a small monitor it would be too high.

It would make for some killer "post your setup" thread pictures though!

If I was really going to do it I would just have a big half circle desk and have the big one on one side and the tripple on the other side and probably get a wireless keyboard/mouse and move them as needed.

But ultimately I would just use one or the other and learn to be happy with my choice. So thats why I am debating the odds & ends to help make that choice.

I am strongly passionate about the 3x projector setup because then I get both, but thats a very extreme setup and maybe a bit more than I bargained for if not setup right as you wont even see the side screens lol.

You know a good compromise would be a setup like what you have there but do this.

Have your 3x monitor setup, and instead of the big HDTV get a 1080P projector and just have a pull down screen mounted above and slightly infront of the monitors. Ceiling mount the projector and just pull down the screen and use the projector when you need some giant single screen in your face action.

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With computers being used for more and more applications (games, movies, work, school, etc...) it is very hard to find a single solution. It comes down to personal preference and pocketbook. I have 2 projectors and toyed with the idea of getting 1 more for a TH2G projector setup for flight simming. When I started testing and saw the "screen door", I knew I needed higher resolution. Cost-wise, 19" monitors with TH2G gave a much clearer image and took alot less space vs projectors. I think it is even probably more immersive. I know your talking about large monitors and that would be the way I would go if I could afford 3 of them on TH2G. A single large monitor IMO, does not give the wrap-around effect that a TH2G setup provides, but if your not playing FPS, or sims then the single large is probably better. It's just what you're going to be using it for. I would probably never watch a movie at my computer regardless of TH2G or not, and could never go back to a single monitor setup after playing CS and FSX on TH2G.

Well, if I were to have both on my setup it would be like this

Please excuse my text, I have no tablet.

That basically is how I've ran my setup before, but instead of the large LCD TV over the triplhead I use a 720p projector. It works great imho. I was gaming on the triplehead and would be watching HDTV overhead from my cable box and other inputs. At the moment I have the projector mounted long throw on another wall in the room full wall size though instead of just over the desk. Both ways are great. I like the wall sized projection lately though. I don't think I've kept any of my old photos of that layout, but I have posted them to old threads on other forums about a year back. I can go dig around for a few pics I guess.

EDIT: Ah hah! I knew I had a thread someplace on it triplehead 17" waaaay back in January 2007:


Thread: http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=80001&highlight=#80001

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I'm in a similar situation as you Vicious with a BenQ 37" 1080p LCD TV for a monitor ~ arms lenght from eyeball to screen.

My wife loves the TV (VGA input from her computer) to review digital photos, and like you, this TV is in our bedroom, foot of the bed so we can watch movies together all snug as a bug in a rug. :)

Our living room TV, old but good Sony 32" CRT, plays hosts mainly to guest nowadays.

Movies on my computer.

I was going to triple screen after thinking about passing the 37" to the wife, but for now, I'm holding out for QuadHD for the living room.

When that happens, I'm going balls out with a new computer to support it. QHD - 3840 x 2040 ~ 2x TH stacked on top of each other - would be more than good enough in a few years.

No bezels and hopefully, better display technology by then.

I play almost FPS exclusively , and arms lenght is pretty immersive so the 37 works for me. For driving, racing or flight sims, TH2G is definately superior.

Yeah the sims really do better with that added FOV, making it more like what you would see in real life out of your side vision.

But I like you play mostly FPS, and a few other titles that wont work well with TH. The 37" is a pleasure to work with in editing despite the fact the raw pixel count is lower, it just makes it easy on the eyes.

Mines actually at the side of the bed (my side) so I just turn over and sit on the edge of the bed, slide out the keyboard tray and I am in computer mode :P

Its looking like a few people had the same idea or already used the idea of a projector in conjunction with a TH2Go setup and that will probably be what I do.

Give the 37" to the living area, build my TH2Go setup and then integrate some kind of screen and a HD projector.

Though I wonder how good a HD projector is at the things the 37" is good for when it comes to detailed matters like photoshop, probably not too good and may be hard on the eyes sitting next to the screen area. So it will probably be downgraded to single screen game & movie work only.

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Actually, I should take that back about waiting for QHD.

If I can find a way to REMOVE the bezel from 3 LCDs and make it near seamless, then I would probably jump all over TH2G right away.

Someone was working on such a project here last year, but the updates stopped so....

Its been done also there are ones that already have it gone likj the one Alienware has.

Not all QHD displays have thin bezels and they cost as of now $10,000 for the low end ones and $50,000 for the high end ones. They are targeted for stuff like medical work, and other things that can benefit from the really high resolution.

Of course an easy way to have no bezel is also projectors.

Let me see if I can track down that too expensive alienware monitor for you, its still tons cheaper than a QHD display.

http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/07/alienware-curved-display-rocks-crysis-at-2880-x-900/

Here is a NEC version:

http://www.bornrich.org/entry/nec-s-2880-x-900-curved-gaming-display-mimics-alienware/

I guess its only double wide? but you also will not need a Matrox TH2Go

Not sure if you can really find them for purchase easy, but it shows that its out there somewhere.

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And then there is the guy who actually hacked off the monitor casing to reduce his bezel size. The thread is in here somewhere, long since lost amongst a sea of other threads. Basically he found that you can reduce the bezel size by a few millimeters but they will still be there.

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I'd simply suggest waiting till OLED technology goes mainstream. Then you'll have a true curved display.

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