On the show floor I caught site of this monitor from Panoram Technologies of Sun Valley, California.

The $10,000 PV230 DSK visualization display

Looks cool, eh? Well, I thought so. It's a segmented TFT/LCD display. 324 square inches of display area and 2.4 Megapixels of screen real-estate. It has input for three of each of the following: DVI, HD15, RCA composite, S-Video. In this set-up, two graphics cards were running the two left hand screens, and there was an S-Video feed into the right hand screen. It was setup as part of a Media 100 workstation for post-production work on digital video.

These types of segmented wraparound screens have generally been used integrated ito high end simulators or control panels. This is one for the "professional consumer" which basically means that the manufacturer thinks it isn't priced so high that only the government and military would be willing to pay for it. I'll have to let our bank manager know that I think I can improve my productivity by 300% with one of these beauties. Of course, I am not sure that my productivity, even with a threefold increase, is worth the $10,000 price tag, but surely, I'm worth something close? Hmmm.