Bezels be Gone! Sharp Develops World's Thinnest Frame Width
Bezels be Gone! Sharp Develops World's Thinnest Frame Width
Posted 06/07/2010 at 7:03am
| by Paul Lilly
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Multi-display setups are typically pretty awesome, but also a little bit flawed when attempting to use more than one screen as a single display. It's because of the bezel, and the thicker it is, the more distracting it can be when plopping multiple TVs or monitors next to, and on top of each other.
That isn't the case with Sharp's new multi-screen display system. With bezels measuring just 6.5mm, Sharp says it achieved the thinnest System Frame Width in the known galaxy, and judging from the pictures, we won't argue with that.
The multi-display screen system is built around the new PN-V601 60-inch professional monitor. The PN-V601 sports a full-array LED backlight with LED elements arranged in an evenly spaced array to improve the uniformity of brightness. There's an enlarge zoom function to supersize images up to 25 monitors (in a 5 x 5 configuration), and when combined with the optional PN-ZR01 Control Kit, users can control all displays using a single remote.
Sharp has yet to set a price for its new display, but says it plans to start shipping the PN-V601 in Japan at the tail end of August.
Image Credit: Sharp
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Peanut Fox
June 07, 2010 at 8:45am
There is a 3rd party company that sells bezel-less plasma displays with the bezel measuring less than 5mm. They have had the product on the market for quite a few years now. The screens are 42" each. They call them Infinite Plasma, as you can line up as many of them as you want to make a screen infinity large (theoretically). Still, it's good to see other companies pursuing the tech.
http://bit.ly/cVjSYi
dracx619
June 07, 2010 at 10:12am
these monitors you linked to make these look like they are way behind the game
tugboat_2
August 30, 2010 at 1:40pm
Yeah, nice. But I'm always leary of companies that adopt the "if you have to ask the price, you can't afford it" strategy.
Peanut Fox
June 07, 2010 at 3:20pm
They kind of are, I was looking at these things over a year ago.
Maybe we'll get some consumer pricing out of it. I honestly look forward to the day when I can rifle through someone else's trash and pull out an Ultra High Definition display, unfold it, and discover that someone through it away because they were too lazy to clean a Doritos smudge off it.
dracx619
June 08, 2010 at 4:01am
HA. yeah, gotta give em to those lazy rich bastards, always throwing out the good stuff.
Magius
June 07, 2010 at 8:13am
Hopefully this will trickle down to consumer desktops in record time. With ATI & Nvidia's solutions there are a good number of enthusiast waiting to purchase monitors with thin bezels. I am one of them.
Jo3
June 07, 2010 at 7:56am
These are 60-inch professional monitors. Goodness only knows how much one costs, never mind three or six.
Chances are you'd be hard pushed to build a rig that would cost more than three of these monitors.
chronium
June 07, 2010 at 8:03am
that's true I was just fixated on the small bezel and got carried away.
chronium
June 07, 2010 at 7:32am
sweet, I can't wait for them to come to North America. Finally a eyefinity setup worth getting.
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