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It's hard to find tech specs on the Perspective Pixel displays, but at least one source† says they are 1920x1080. The idea of doing lots of text-oriented work sitting inches away from a 55" 1080p monitor sounds horrible, but I guess it makes for good TV.

† http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2819660

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I've done graphics for television (literally fullscreens and boxes for newscasts and that sort of thing) - if something appears onscreen (especially on a screen on screen) you'd be surprised how terrible the resolution has to be before it even matters visually to the home viewer.

If this is the display tech I saw over a year ago at OSCON, they were visually fine. When I pushed the MS rep on the booth for info about pricing and it was in the 5 digit range I politely moved on without getting more info. They looked good very close at finger touch range, but don't know the pixel density.

  1920 / 55 means 34.9 dpi ?

If thats correct then this is just awful. I feel sorry for those who have to use this daily.

I don't understand how anybody would use that to do anything serious on.

Fox News is not serious.

that's not correct, 55 inches is diagonal.

(16x)^2 + (9x)^2 = (55)^2

x ~= 2.996

1920/(16x) ~= 40.05 dpi

Good for TV? Its Fox, so anything that distracts from the words they are saying is great for TV.

I find a lot of relevant news on Fox, relevant commentary, knowledgeable opinions. Unless you can cite an example of what you mean then it's just a personal attack against Fox with no basis.

>> jebblue 1 hour ago said:

>> I find a lot of relevant news on Fox, relevant commentary, knowledgeable opinions. Unless you can cite an example of what you mean then it's just a personal attack against Fox with no basis.

Here's your example.

"Fox News will not be moving into Canada after all! The reason: Canada regulators announced last week they would reject efforts by Canada's right wing Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, to repeal a law that forbids lying on broadcast news. Canada's Radio Act requires that "a licenser may not broadcast....any false or misleading news." The provision has kept Fox News and right wing talk radio out of Canada and helped make Canada a model for liberal democracy and freedom."

1. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr/fox-news-w...

I eagerly await any attempts to defend FOXNews in a comment-thread on HackerNews. Seriously, go for it. http://i.imgur.com/xblF4.gif

Did you seriously link to a Huffington Post article to criticize the bias of Fox News?

I can't defend Fox's practices, but the fact that you aren't railing against MSNBC as well makes me think you're far from an impartial observer. Fox News and MSNBC are two sides of the same ridiculous coin, but media bias only seems to bother you when it's coming from the right.

I assume it was directly solely at Fox News as this is the line of argument I took. The op posted a link to Fox then I slandered the Fox network's good name. In addition, I don't live in the US and never see American news with the exception of rehashed Fox garbage, hence my angle.

The O'Reilly Factor.

I'm not sure if this is a joke or a troll. I'll bite and link to everyone's favourite source. In addition, could you seriously read a Murdoch publication regularly and be ok with it? He is one of the most degenerate business owners in living memory. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News_Channel_controversie...

Here is the product page: https://www.microsoft.com/office/perceptivepixel/products/de....

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