> scott wrote:
>
>>> A small startup is working on a new user interface called Dizmo. It
>>> runs HTML/JavaScript applications called Dizmos. They are displayed
>>> in windows that can be freely placed and rotated on the display.
>>> [...]
>>
>> Several users working on the same display implies the display should
>> be quite large (>30" diagonal). Arbitrarily rotated windows implies
>> you need a very high pixel density to avoid visible aliasing. Seems
>> like this would work really well once we have 8Kx4K UHD TVs :-)
>
> Dizmo is indeed exploring the limits of available hardware. Maybe it is
> the first use case of these TVs with ridiculously high resolution. After
> all, who has the bandwith to transmit a TV show in that resolution? It
> would also be interesting to see how current consumer graphics cards
> cope with such a configuration.
>
I would guess the card could send primitives to the display and the 
display would have a few GPUs to control sections of the screen.

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