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25 years ago I worked on the air traffic control system modernization. We were using Sony CRTs that were square 2Kx2K with hardware anti-aliasing. The were drop dead gorgeous. I assumed that 25 years forward (today) that everyone would be able to buy such monitors below $1000 (they were like $10K in 1996 dollars).

Why no square monitors? Hollywood?



There is a square monitor from Eizo: https://www.eizoglobal.com/products/flexscan/ev2730q/


That's pretty nice. Sold out from what I can see. Next: how to add that hardware anti-aliasing. I assume that GPUs can do that to your desktop.


Ah, that’s unfortunate. Well, the model is already almost 7 years old.

You could try to obtain the SQ2825 instead, but that’s not a consumer device and probably expensive: https://www.eizoglobal.com/products/atc/sq2825/


Interesting. I can buy a panel and diy kit for this monitor on AliExpress. Hmm.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32955608335.html


Nice find. If it was VA like the SQ2825 I’d buy it. (Just a personal preference, IPS glow bothers me and I want the higher contrast of VA panels.)




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