Great find Allen. I am using three 22" Acer (1680x1050) monitors for my desktop; all in all I am very happy with them. In the simpit I am using one 28" I-Inc and one 17" Dell. I would love to get two more I-Inc monitors (1920x1200), at 299.99 each they are not badly priced..but another 600.00 on the simpit is not possible any time soon

David

I don't own a TV, so I use my computer for both games and movie/tv viewing. Currently have a 30" monitor. Would be bummed to downgrade from that to a single 24" monitor for watching movies and tv. Wouldn't do it, in fact. Yet there's no way I'm going to try to game across 3 30" monitors. The cost of buying 2 more 30" monitors and the hardware to power it all would be prohibitively expensive. Watching tv and movies across 3 24" monitors however, could be pretty awesome. Sadly, I don't think it really works, from the answers I've gotten online.

I don't think it will either. The aspect ratio of a film doesn't sit right across 3 monitors.

One arrived with a smashed LCD screen. The second with a cracked bezel and the On Screen Menu buttons on the bezel had no effect. Downloads of User Manuals, HP software and drivers did not help.

The second monitor did have an excellent, if nonadjustable, picture. Would have been perfect.

Got them RMAd. We'll see if the replacements are any better.

Newegg has Acer 24" LCDs for 199.99 on sale until the 15th:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824009167

Can someone try and post a scree

Can someone try and then post a screenshot? I'm interested to see how much of the monitors the picture spans across. Thanks.

None left, so money refunded -- no cost -- just lost time.

Meantime, found HP ZR24w 24" 1920x1200 S-IPS (very wide gamut) brand new for $382 "promotional price" free shipping. Bought two -- one either side of my Dell U2410 H-IPS (ultra wide gamut). Installed they look good and are very adjustable in every respect. They have Displayport and DVI input like the Dell. Displayport is desirable on all monitors if I eventually buy a 2GB HD6870 6 monitor or future HD7870 6 monitor Eyefinity card.

Despite how nice the HP ZR24w and Dell are in general, for ultimate contrast and black level, the new Samsung Eyefinity cPVA (I think) monitors (over $600 each) will easily beat them (my wife has a Samsung cPVA monitor -- outstanding black levels). However, the Samsungs are only 1920x1080.

I notice that I pay 80 percent attention to the center monitor -- the side ones just "fill in" my eyeball field of view at the periphery most of the time. Thus, the Eyefinity side monitors do not need to be identical make and model to the center monitor (at least for me) -- merely well matched -- a place to save a few $$. Hand/eye manual adjustment got them close.

I ordered Pantone huey Pro MEU113 color adjustment hardware/software ($86) to adjust all the monitors' colors and contrast to match -- it should arrive today.

Another Eyefinity convert here. I had to flash my card's BIOS to cure the 'blacking out' of the display that was attached to the active DP-to-DVI adapter. I don't have the same displays, but a Samsung F2380 in the middle and a pair of cheap Medion Akoya 55004 displays on the sides. Such a configuration disables the bezel correction option, but hopefully this will be fixed in a future Catalyst release.

The Samsung F2380 is what my wife has (still available a couple places for around $300). That is a really outstanding display. I seriously considered "stealing" hers and buying two more for the perimeter -- giving her my Dell. In the end, I did what I did. But, the F2380 was a VERY close second that, perhaps, should have been first -- cost less too. I think the new Samsung Eyefinity displays are the same technology -- just with displayport and a doubled pricetag.

It does have a bit of motion blur, but it's liveable.

Re: Eyefinity^6 cards is a future-proof(ing) purchasing idea, but I'd go for 4 projectors (beamers) on a curved screen, if I were to go beyond 3 screens. I did mail Optoma a little while back to check if their HD20's would run in portrait mode, but sadly the answer was no. I think an off-the-shelf mirror 'periscope' construction (x3) to get the image to portrait would cost more than a 4th HD20. :p