News - Fox News research team dwarfed by 55" Microsoft touch displays

[dahools]

how pointless they cant even reach the top half of them. wasted real estate and money. got to get out of your seat to press the 'X' in the top right corner wtf?

These are brilliant for anyone that uses CAD. Aircraft drafts men/woman use them in some places. A digital drawing board..

I don't think there are many CAD artists at Fox news which was what I was getting at, i'm sure they have their use in industry, however for news research I think they are a teeny bit to big don't you?

Even drawing on something that size using the touch screen would be difficult and painful after a while I recon. Cant imagine something like that would be a daily use item, using it to view complex drawings however is another matter, you wouldn't really need the touch enabled then as the diagram/draft would be large enough to view all the detail anyway.

[McEwin]

Resolution is just standard 1080p.

Blimey, didn't take long for people to start saying "just standard 1080p"!!

[Cog]

The situation is that different for large PC monitors though. 1080p on anything bigger than a 24" monitor is almost unusable unless you start sitting further away from it. 30" monitors are 2560x1600 not because it looks better, but because they have to be.

[Alicia]

This is not my first time ever seen the big screen. It has find its path to conference room, studio room and etc.
http://tabler.tv/multitouchscreen.html

[TheMaterialGamer]

Wouldn't have biggish touch monitors have been enough lol.