Asus W3J + 61-inch digital plasma display

Hey Check this out........ we just moved into our new office a few months ago and there has been a NEC PX-61XM4A 61-inch digital plasma display sitting idle in the boardroom next to where I work.....

What can I say, I just couldnt resist hooking up my W3J

I ran a DVD, opened a few applications CAD Indesign ACDSee Pro.

I was actually quite surprised the video was superb, couldn't see any compression on the avi (of my name is earl tv show),

The funniest thing is that I the res wasnt even set to the hghest available! if I went above a certain res it blacked out (wouldnt take it), it was just set to PC input, so obvuiosly it must scale it up.

PS quality of Photo not fantastic I was using my SE K800i

 

All I can say is beautiful!

 

Given the camera phone pictures and the lack of proper settings...... that's still one of the best proofs that vga on these newest units is fine..... Just curious, what res input could the plasma take? Most of them are low WXGA+ at best..... I know that 1080i/p are much higher than that, but often they can't accept input of WUXGA or something nice like that. If I could get a 40-60 display pumping out WUXGA or higher, I'd have one on my wall right now.

 

nice nice nice, me wants!

 

Yeah I saw some people complaining about the possibility of hooking up their W3J to a widescreen monitor, I have hooked it up to a few monitors now (mostly Dell TFT,s 19 & 21'' models and have been very pleased every time at the results, with plenty of res to spare.

I think the res was 1520 x 1140 before I blacked out, I would have to verify but I do remember thinking that it kind of blacked out early, tith plenty of res settings to spare (only 2/3rds along the slider).

Unfortunately I have just flown back to the UK for 3 weeks, but when I get back to the US I will hook it up again and check, I had a quick flick through the settings on the screen and from quick look the PC input was the easiest way to get it working, although it does have every kind of connection available so I could try the Svideo, although I am sure if I delve around the settings it should accept a higher res, that would look great!

But I must say I was in the Four seasons Hotel in Bangkok earlier this year working on a design charette and we hooked up a Dell to this monitor Via the VGA cable, all I can say is the Asus W3 Kicks in comparison! the Dell Latitude was not even legible.

When I go back I will hook it up again and see if I can get a higher quality out of the monitor, by playing with the settings, but it was the monitor that couldn't take it, the W3J had more res settings to spare.

PS this is no budget monitor Google the model No:I though it was quite expensive.

 

this is silly, but could you send me that background pic you have on the W3j?

Thats cool!

email it to [email protected]

Or tel me where I can get some nice ones that fit 1280 X 768

Thanks!

 

From www.digitalblasphemy.com? Shown in the bottom right part?

 

Yeah its a great web site, I got that background a year ago, they have a few up for free, it might not be up there so here it is.

As soon as my Bios was flashed I went straight to this site, they look great check them out

I resized this one to fit widescreen, I have the standard ratio one as well.

 

Wow looks even better. Always new vga was just fine.

 

Ok I had another play with this screen, I was doing some photoshop tutorial stuff at work and was playing with setting up the widescreen panel as an external display, the best resolution was 1600x1200 anything higher and it created a virtual screen (you know when the res is higher than displayed on the monitor and the desktop appears to extend past the extents of the screen).

 

Beautiful section by the way..... but in my opinion you the negative space should be entirely black... that's just lazy... lazy.. lazy

 

Ha Ha good point, that was one I did a few years ago hand drawn then trees photoshoped in, but we have progressed since then, check this one out..... drawn using a Cintiq 21UX wacom tablet (they are cool to draw on) being able to draw straight into photoshop is great!

 

That NEC plasma has a native resolution of only 1365 x 768, which is slightly lower than WXGA for laptops. So, you wouldn't be able to get any higher than that - any higher would just lead to simple downscaling or most of the time, blacking out (TV cannot read the source).

So 1600x1200 on that NEC is just impossible because it doesn't even have enough pixels to accomodate that - it's just downscaling.

Plasmas are also inherently 720p sets (the only 1080i sets are CRT RPTV's). Today's 1080p sets feature slightly above WSXGA+ resolution but lower than WUXGA resolution in the form of LCoS, LCoS-derived, LCD, DLP, or plasma forms.

 

Not bad at all... you'll need to drop me an email and remind me who you're working for out there in CA. I have an old Cintiq I got given to me when Wacom wanted us to sell their stuff.... I loved it because although expensive as all hell, I could use the power of my workstation rather than a tablet pc which then puts all the heat and everything right in my lap.... I could critique your section a little more if you'd like ...... You know it's not good until everyone else tells you they hate it... remember that