Durandul

Plasma's also put out a lot of EM radiation, so it can mess with radio, notable if you use RF devices, especially wireless headphones (the ones that use RF like Sennheiser's basic ones). OLED and CRT still have issues when used for desktop applications due to their burn in. All three are arguable poorly suited for sitting on a desk. Every screen technology has drawbacks. I'd argue that TN/IPS are the easiest to adapt to a desktop experience while mitigating downsides. I personally use an LCD monitor combined with a projector, but a projector requires you to build a room around it.

I think it all boils down to lack of interest from consumers. The only sub segment that really is dedicated to triple monitor are the sim guys, and from what I can tell they usually have dedicated cockpit's or other setups, so they don't really use the systems as a daily driver. NVIDIA could implement your proposed suggestions quite easily, but are they really going to pay one of their software engineers to fix something that so few people are complaining about? I'm in a similar boat, I actually got a triple monitor setup with the intention of surround gaming, but after having tried it I quickly decided that the cons outweighed the pros, even ignoring the aesthetic issues in game with tearing, framerate pacing, and bezels. I've since switched to having one gaming monitor, and two IPS panels on the sides for monitoring various other things.

Just to pitch in, I got the VAST ultrawide 100hz monitor, and while it's not a dealbreaker, I personally find the ghosting quite distracting compared to my old 144hz TN panel. In fairness however, it's a new panel, by a new company, on a newish technology, and it's definitely on the cheap end of the spectrum. From the posts on Massdrop, it seems either it's less noticeable to some, or perhaps some of the panels are better than others in that batch, so if you're going with a trusted brand, it'll might be less noticeable. That's my 2 cents. TL;DR: You'll probably like it, but don't be afraid to return it if you don't.

Just going to point out that the price of buying either a receiver capable of handling those inputs, or the individual components needed to convert them separately, would almost certainly be greater than the price of just buying a TV/Monitor with most of the inputs you need an adapting the rest. That being said, if you can find a decent receiver with a competent analog to digital scaler, it's most likely the best solution. edit: For example, you could get an HDTV with both HDMI and component/composite inputs, then get a component/composite switch and an HDMI switch, and hook everything to the TV. Monoprice makes decent switches, and you can get versions with IR inputs to switch them remotely.

Just based on screen tech alone, and through personal experience, if you find you ever lean back or sit at a weird angle, IPS can be worth it. Even just watching YouTube or play casual single player games, the color distortion of a TN panel can be quite distracting. On the flipside, I've heard that high refresh rate IPS can have ghosting issues, which is annoying when playing FPS or other high motion games. Both of these issues are heavily dependent on the specific panel as well, but I can't really speak to specifics as I haven't personally seen those two panels. Hope that helps.

Hey, since LTT has a fancy Dell laser projector, wouldn't it be cool if they tested it with an equally fancy screen? I'm legitimately interested in getting a Screen Innovations Zero Edge 5 Short Throw projector screen, but the only videos on the thing are from the company itself. I would love to see LTT test it out and see if it's as cool as they claim it is. It'd be cool too if they tested it with different brightness settings to see how visible it is if you had a less powerful projector. Does anyone know of any other cool UST projector screens other than SI's? Link to the SI product description page for posterity. edit: forgot to mention which projector >.<

Turns out that AMD may not be home free from Spectre (variant 2) after all. Full credit goes to Michael Larabel at Phoronix: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-Is-Vulnerable-Variant-2. It seems that while they still believe that AMD is less vulnerable to Spectre, they're working on microcode patches now rather than just opting out of changes to the Linux kernel. According to the article "AMD will be rolling out new microcode updates for Ryzen/EPYC starting this week". We'll see what this turns out to be, but if they have to lock out the bug in a similar matter, than I imagine that there will be a very similar drop in performance. Crossing my fingers it won't affect Ryzen too bad. It's really hard to say though at this point, as the updated AMD statement is pretty vague.