- This is what happens
when you run your mouth on the internet, I thought I
was a cool guy, I was like, hey this is a crazy curved
ultra wide Alienware monitor, if anyone has one of these, I'll pay 10 grand for
it, so I can unbox it, I was 100% certain nobody had one, Alienware told me nobody had one, well as it turns out,
Alienware was just rebranding, a monitor from a little known company, called Ostendo called the CRVD 43, this my friends is the world's first, as far as we can tell
curved desktop monitor and the world's first
ultra wide desktop monitor and it wasn't Alienware, so I did get a bit of a discount but I still ended up paying
6,000 US dollars for this thing, so it better be really fucking cool, welcome to holy, the heaviest monitor that
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this was a Reddit post, that was brought up in our
weekly writer's meeting, it looks so cool, I was like, holy crap that is such an amazing piece of computing history, like I need it, we reached out to everyone
we could think of, to get our hands on one of these puppies but all of them were dead ends, in a few cases they did
actually have the display but less of a dead end and
more of a dead display, so then it ended up getting
thrown at oh my God it's heavy, it ended up getting thrown in
as a topic for the Wan show, where I kind of jokingly
kind of seriously, put out a $10,000 bounty
and when I did that, I will buy it from you for
10,000 us dollars if it works, so that I can make a video about it. I was not expecting to
actually pay $10,000, I expected to get nothing
other than the same pictures, we had already seen of non-working units and yet lo and behold, 10 days later, we got an email with a link to a video of a new inbox monitor,
like look carefully at this, this is actual official
packaging for this thing, we verify the monitor did in fact work and the deal was made, I'm sure that guy was not expecting to get $6,000
for this ancient technology, I mean look at this
thing, even when it's off, the screen's not even black, there were three variants of this, the Alienware one from CES
2008, where no price was given, there wasn't any C variant, that was shown at the
2009 Mac world event, where a hefty $8,000 price tag was given, then there's ours the
Ostendo Technologies, CRVD, 43 inch curved display
and when this was first sold for a very brief period
in 2009 at its cheapest, it was a modest 6,500 US dollars, which is kind of crazy because
that's actually very close, to what we ended up paying for it, now at every event where
the display was shown, it made headlines, anyone who saw it, I mean look at this 2008 was wowed by both the curved nature of
the display and how wide it is, like sitting about two feet from it, gives you a natural 90
degree field of view, that's actually very comparable, to high-end curved ultra
wide displays today, this thing was literally a
decade ahead of its time, which isn't to say that
everything about it, holds up particularly well today, let's start getting it hooked up and talk through some of the specs, so in terms of connectivity, display port, ladies and
gentlemen, didn't exist yet, so we're gonna go ahead and oh, it's fine, there's your power input right
there, ladies and gentlemen, got that dual link DVI
input, it's in my port, I would actually be surprised
if it runs full res on, what HDMI version would
this have even been? 1.3 oh baby, USB to hub though ladies and gentlemen, it's a great value at $6,000, the stand looks like
cast aluminum I guess, 25 pounds without the stand, well the stand definitely
on smaller weight, 'cause it's pretty heavy. Wait, this is a single link DVI to HDMI, why would it come with
such a weird stupid cable? Can I just have like a
regular dual link DVI cable? - [Nicholas] I brought the HDMI - Oh right we're running
like a 2080 or something here and obviously it doesn't have DVI. Who bought this thing
and then never opened it? Oh my God do you hear those fans? It's as loud as a computer, whoa, giant cooling fan right here, based on the position, I would say it must be
near the power supply 'cause the power goes in right under there and then check this shiz out, look at these giant heat sinks here, it's funny I didn't think about it but that totally makes sense, that this would have to
have Beefy cooling in it because the way that they built it is unlike anything that I've seen before, so it's got a 2880 by 900 resolution and how they achieved that and
the curvature of the display is that it's actually instead
of being just one display, four DLP LED lit screens in
portrait mode just lined up, so pretty much it's kind
of full of projectors, what's cool about being DLP
though is that we might actually get a pretty decent gaming
experience out of this thing because it boasts a 0.02
millisecond response time, that's right, we're gonna game on it, this is a classic in terms
of interface down here, hey, it works, wow that
is really washed out, system error, 1508 contact tech support, what are the odds Ostendo's
Tech support still around, some of the other specs,
LTTstore.com by the way, include 200 nit peak brightness ouch, 10,000 to one contrast ratio, sure that looks like a bad
sign, a 100% SRGB coverage and 99% coverage of the
Adobe RGB color space, should I be worried about that? So let's try the power cycle trick here, wow it has like a boot down sequence, you can like hear the power supply. Yes, oh wow It actually
looks a lot better too, now that it's warmed up, that's crazy, you can still absolutely see the seams between the projectors like it's hello, so right there, right there,
right there and right there, there's your four are they LED backlit? - [Nicholas] Yeah. - That would have been
like crazy town technology at the time, that's insane,
check it out from this angle, like see how stark those lines
are between the projectors, to be clear it's not great but
it's not that bad actually, let's give it a little calibri. Wow look at this it's got
a menu and everything, I would have given basically
anything for this 10 years ago, so you're actually aligning
the two different projectors, holy crap, so it can move
them, it can move them? You gotta be kidding me, It's definitely blurrier
towards the outside but that's pretty typical of
a projection style display, okay so how do you make white smooth? Okay then, oh I see, so it's
adjusting the brightness, at the meeting point where they overlap, oh, that's a little better actually, it just darkened it a bit more, information, yes please,
tell me more information, 2880 by 960 Hertz native
sync type digital, yeah okay, in terms of responsiveness here, yeah for a 60 Hertz display, it's not bad, like it feels, it feels fine, now there was a lot of
confusion at the time because the thickness,
the girth of this display, led people to believe that
it was a CRT but it wasn't and quite frankly, that's a
bit of an unfortunate thing, if it was a CRT, it would definitely be
even heavier than it is, actually by a considerable margin but it would also have
better image clarity and better brightness, it kind of buzzes different sounds, depending on how much of the
display is actually active, that's so weird, everything about this thing is so weird, what even is this aspect
ratio 32 by 10 in game, the lines are really not that noticeable, especially from that two foot sweet spot, like it's really tuned, like if I'm in here, I can make it out and if I'm out here, I can make
it out but like right here, holy crap like, it feels really responsive, like holy crap, my mind would
have been absolutely blown, to try something like this,
no wonder it made headlines at every show that they
download the thing, interestingly I'm not getting
any noticeable rainbow effect and normally I find it quite
noticeable on DLP displays, I don't know if that just has to do with the small size of
it or my proximity to it or what the deal is there. - [Nicholas] Ostendo's
specialty was LEDs back then. - Interesting. I mean the advertised contrast ratio is obviously complete bullshit, to put it as charitably as I possibly can but pretty much everything else about it is really impressive, so
when I whip the camera, like when I pan the camera like this, you see a little bit of display tearing but for not having V sync
enabled, that's normal, what's shocking to me, so here if we turn this sync on, what's shocking to me is
that in between the displays, I don't notice anything, like I don't notice like a kind
of a compression expansion, kind of artifact or anything like that, it really does feel like one big display, there's things that
they lied about for sure but there's also things they
got really, really right, gaming aside from like
a creative standpoint, something like this would have
been absolutely game changing with that said, I think you'd
still need another display for certain types of work, like I mean, if I was doing anything, that I expected to be
color accurate on here, get real, it might have that
gamut coverage or whatever but I mean with the amount of you know, fringing for example on borders and with how much variation
there is with a single color, across the entire width
of the display like here, you can see how the start menu is like kind of pink over on this side and then it's more like
dark here, there's no way, that you'd be doing any kind
of like color accurate work but from just a sheer screen
real estate standpoint, we're looking at a very modern
amount of screen real estate for you know, timelines
and you know media bins and graphics and all that
kind of stuff like this, again would have been
absolutely mind blowing, to 10 years ago me, in conclusion, as a 10 year ago, tech demo,
absolutely freaking unreal, I don't know that I would have spent this kind of money on it, just because there are
some serious quality of life problems with it with respect to, you know
the changes in the zones, particularly the maximum
brightness is really not great, contrast isn't great but as
a 10 years ago tech demo, unfreaking real, I'm still not stoked
that I paid $6,000 for it but hey, maybe we'll do a live stream, you wanna see a tear down,
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out of this thing, make up some some ground there,
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I want to know the actual wattage of that thing from the wall Linus.
It needed fans and heatsinks.
This is basically a miniature version of the display systems on aircraft simulators.
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The contrast ratio is probably measured in a dark room. Trying to use a rear projection display in studio lighting is never a good idea.
I was expecting him to drop it every time he picked it up. I'm sure he tempts fate on purpose at this point.
I'm so sad he didn't get the high refresh rate one.
Why not have two people game against eachother, one on a modern display and one on this one and see how it holds up? Or attach a period-appropriate PC to it and see if it can run any games from that time in that resolution? How would the experience be? Or compare it to a CRT from the time?
I liked the video, but for 6 grand he could have put a little more effort into it and got a whole lot more out of it.
But that happens a lot on LTT. They do expensive things and then do a 6 minute video only to never show it again. What happened to the water chiller they built? After building a totally custom enclosure I never saw it again.
I thought that thing was a CRT at first.