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Hi Reto,


you overestimated the resolution of the monitor . It does not provide
5kx5k-25M pixels, that would be too big jump in LCD monitor technology as
would either  require 0.2mmx5kx1.4=1.4m=56" diagonal size LCD screen
at common dot pitch 0.2 mm or 27"x25.4mm/1.4/5k~0.1 mm dot pitch
(the latter is already achieved in tablet/smartphone screens).


These terms 4k, 5k redolution are  a liitle  bit  quantitatively confusing as they mean the order
of pixels in a horizontal row. In practical implementation of  LCD TV/monitor
industry  4k usually refers  to  4x full HD resolution  1920x2 by 1080x2 yielding
only 8.3M pixels (~half of 4kx4k=16M). The Dell  5k monitor has  5120 x 2880=
14.7M pixels (still 40% short of 25M).


Cheers,
Arvydas



>>> Reto Fiolka  11/21/14 5:27 PM >>>
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Hi Arvydas

Slightly different topic, but:

As it is a LCD monitor, this means that there are now video rate nematic liquid crystal 
displays with 5k x 5k pixels.

This is great for holography, optical phase conjugation, structured illumination and many 
other applications using SLMs.

Nice, so one can either gut one of these monitors or wait till Holoeye or another company 
makes a kit using that SLM and a custom driver.

Quite exciting!

Best regards,

Reto