Samsung ships new Video Walls

Today, Samsung announced it has begun shipping its UT series of seamlessly stitchable 46" LCD monitors, the company's building blocks for JumboTron-scale displays.

Home theater enthusiasts are frequently presented with 150" and up single screen solutions that are touted as the recurring "pinnacle" of the home entertainment experience, but multi-monitor solutions can deliver just as giant of a screen with only a small gap for the monitor bezel. Samsung's UT series allows dozens of screens to be joined together into huge video walls with only a 6.7mm gap for the bezel between screens.

Samsung claims that the UD controller software that drives the UT arrays can set up a screen made up of as many as 250 individual monitors. Using the 460UTn, that would result in a 19' x 84' display (1,596 square feet, or a little smaller than a third of the colossal screen in the new Yankee Stadium.) A ridiculously huge screen by any standard.

Of course, the screen in Yankee Stadium is a single giant LED image, and Samsung's UT series would be made up of many 1366 x 768 resolution LCD screens. This maximum size array would cost $2.15 million for the monitors alone, and to get a picture on the screen would require no fewer than 125 source PCs. The cost of electricity is another story entirely.

Samsung's three UT series displays are shipping now for $6,922, $7,845, and $8,614.