AOC U2868PQU just release for 550 bucks
I like to sit back when I’m working, anything less than 50" at 4K will be too small for me. Most likely will go with 55" when they are affordable enough (new Seiki Pro and Vizio models will start shipping this fall).
28" at 4k is just crazy, except maybe for photo editing work.
it’s not crazy, most of the new ultrabooks comes with full hd + 13 pouces => smaller ppp than 4k +28p.
Got a Samsung 4K curved TV. Put it at the backend of the desk, put each touchscreen off to the sides, and built a frame to hold the main speakers (on monitor arms), and the subwoofer, PVR and BluRay over the top.
Had to do a few settings changes to get it looking right across all sources, but it is really the centre-piece now!
With Cubase:
With RX3:
Hahaha, ok that’s a ridiculously big monitor 
. I’m not sure I could stand sitting in front of that sunbed 
Looks cool though!
It actually runs pretty cool - 27C all over vs 35C (bottom) to 45C (top) with a 30". When I had four 30" (500W), I would cook on warm days! Basically this uses about the same power as a 30" but with twice the pixels.
One good thing is that it is not very reflective, only being noticeable on dark backgrounds, and then not much, as can be seen from how little of the flash can be seen. On the other hand, the touchscreens are too reflective. I used to have them together on the desk when it faced the studio to the left of the picture, and one of them would reflect the ceiling light so that it was very difficult to work with. The picture shows them with reflections of the main screen, but at the sitting position, it fortunately can’t be seen in them.
And watching upscaled BluRays from just over a metre away is great.
I suspect that their 48" (48HU8500) 4K TVs will be big amongst computer people wanting to converge their TV and monitor to save space.
I see. Personally I think it’s simply too much information at once, I’d end up zooming stuff in just to make it easy on my brain. Or not, never tried it and you’re located a bit far from home to try it out 
I find there are two types of person when it comes to interacting with information:
a) those who just want only to see the part they are actually interested in.
b) those who want to see the whole information set, so they can go to any part instantly.
Of course, the a)s have a much cheaper monitor setup, while for the b)s there is never enough pixels!
The a)s would never do printed circuit layouts which requires working at an expanded scale across a whole circuit board so that track routes could be planned. I was very good at those! Before cheap computers, they were done on large drawing boards or light tables, as it involved being able to lay tracks to 0.002" accuracy across several inches. With early computer programs on small screens, it was very frustrating because of the constant zooming in and out and panning. Now a couple of 4K monitors would nail it!
While checking out the availability of these as a possibility for my wife, the shop where we bought mine said that the 48"s were very popular and tend to sell out quite quickly.
Interesting…I had been seriously considering one huge screen later last year, but ended up buying three 24" wide screen LCD computer monitors to replace my three 17 CRT’s instead. Bought them at Fry’s Electronics on a great sale for about $150 each.
The issue of bezels have only been a little bothersome with multiple screens, but for me the only thing I ever stretch across is the Arrange Window & Mixer Window, which isn’t a full-time experience anyway. I’ve grown very used to keeping my VSTi’s and other smaller windows on their own screen. I think the bezel thing was just a hang-up, I’m completely over it now that I went from three 17" CRT’s (squarish screens) to three 24" wide screen LCD’s.
I find that having one large surface gives the most flexibility. I still have a couple of smaller ones (as for a mixconsole or Outlook), but even when I had up to four 30", I still found it awkward at times. On one contract, I could only load MS Access 2003 on one 30" monitor (due to being single-threaded), which, with over a hundred SQL queries to use with MS Word to automatically generate system docs, was tedious in the amount of scrolling I needed to do during design.
I got the 4K for RX3, which I spend a lot of time in, as we really don’t use many tracks in Cubase. But it is great to be able to have three wide web browser sessions when researching, with enough height (2160 pixels) to see without too much scrolling. I just find with 1080 or 1200, there isn’t much content space left after all the header, menus and other filler that programs and web pages have.
Oh sure, certainly one large screen would be overall better and more convenient and more flexible for even an ‘average user’ like me, who doesn’t have big demands… I’m sure much more so for power users.
Coming from (3) 17" squares to (3) 24" wide screens is a huge improvement, so much that I can now comfortably fit & use the Arrange Window & Mixer Window on one screen, I only occasionally feel the need to stretch them across to another screen…the ‘wide screen’ aspect is the greatest improvement of all for me.
Actually, things are a little different now that I’m using a separate computer to run all my VSTi’s on. Unlike before, I now have only (2) screens on my main DAW, and the 3rd screen is on my dedicated VSTi machine…which can get a little crammed up…but since there’s no audio tracks on it, and I only work with one VSTi window at a time anyway, it’s not much of an inconvenience. I really see the 3rd screen on the 2nd computer like I did before, since I had always used the 3rd screen on my main DAW as my dedicated VSTi display anyway…but it’s way better because of being a larger & much wider screen.
Not soon, but I have been ‘considering’ buying a 4th screen…I have a choice to consider…either buy another identical 24" and stack them (in two stacks of two) … or buy a big screen, and use the three other 24" ones around it…but then again, that isn’t very symmetrical, and I’d likely just use the two 24" screens on either side, with the big one in center at my desk.
You don’t have a signature with your equipment listed, so I might be missing the mark here.
If you are using PCs, you can either:
a) Leave your VSTi machine ‘headless’ (no monitor) and just RDP into it from your main machine as required, or
b) Use one (or more) monitors connected to both machines, and switch video source inputs.
The advantage of the first scenario is that the machine doesn’t have to be in the same room, so its noise isn’t being added into the room. It also means that it can be pushed harder with some overclocking and fans running at higher speeds.
I use PC’s, running XP Pro, with older quad core Q9300 CPU’s. I most often work with only one machine at a time as a stand-alone, using both simultaneously only when bouncing my VSTi machines virtual instruments audio out (as a stereo sub-mix) over into my main audio DAW machine, where I then work my audio tracks. I have a KVM switch too, 4-port for future expansion. I have lot’s of options to experiment with.
I’m actually planing on isolating ALL my PC’s away from my desk area, and I’d never track audio (my voice or an acoustic guitar) with more than one machine running.
Two emerging Ethernet-based technologies that enable that are:
a) AoIP - Audio over Ethernet, like Dante or Ravenna, combining audio data, control, clock, and even power (by PoE), into single cables
b) PCoIP - basically lossless compression of video plus USB, leaving only a small box driving monitors and USB.
Both allow for:
a) remote servers, including virtualised
b) routable peripherals, including audio interfaces
c) use of cheaper Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) routers and cables
d) simplified wiring
e) dynamic configurations.
All of these are of particular use to studios, as they simplify and unify the wiring, just like VoIP did for building wiring. They could run a few 10GbE (or greater) lines down the building, feeding a 1GbE router in each room, to which all devices there are connected. Any control room could use any studio. Every performer, even in the one studio, could have their own interface, providing inputs and foldback outputs, fed by the room’s PoE router.
Currently, PCoIP cards are rare and expensive, but that will change if there is more take-up. Fortunately, it will be helped along by the increasing use of virtualisation by enterprises, which is a huge market compared to audio.
A bit OT, but…
AoIP - Audio over Ethernet, like Dante or Ravenna
I’ve briefly looked into the technology before & now once again briefly … looks like fantastical stuff! 
But for the time being, until I win the lottery, and being this is just a hobby studio here…I thinking more of the poor mans solution
I’ve been considering a much more basic solution of isolating my current PC towers…like, just placing them directly on the other side of a wall in a closet, or inside a huge, more than 5 foot rack I had salvaged, or do both…with appropriate ventilation considered of course. Once the PC towers are isolated from me, I’ll then run all my VGA cables to my video monitors, and my audio interface Host cables to my rack of breakout boxes. I plan to have them close enough apart that no extensions to VGA & Host cables will be required. Other considerations & preparations have been made…like power/reset/LED rack I’ve built that can handle/control up to 4 PC’s, … it has 4 PC power buttons, 4 reset buttons, 8 LED indicators. Each PC interfaced by CAT-5 cable/connectors. A USB DVD RW drive will be connected to my 4-port KVM’s USB hub for when I need it, for convenience.
My room should be very silent after that…at that point I may start to actually hear my video monitors!
Look at Dante Via, which is software aimed at turning any computer with a legacy audio interface into a Dante device.
Dante Via…hmmmm, not a wealth of information but it looks interesting Pat
http://www.audioprointernational.com/news/read/infocomm-2014-dante-via-coming-in-q4/07206
I wonder if they intend to compete with Vienna Ensemble Pro 
Dante is to hardware what VEP is to software. They both bring Ethernet networking, but work at different layers.
A little back-story that may be interesting.
In January 2014, I emailed a suggestion to Audinate stating:
You have the Dante Virtual Soundcard system host software, but have you
thought about producing Dante client software that would allow a computer
with one or more existing Firewire/USB/PCIe sound devices, each with their
own ASIO drivers, to be unified and controlled by Dante?The client could even run on the Dante host system, integrating its legacy
devices.I suspect you are looking at your clients as being the ‘big’ operators, and
most of your licencees are only producing devices with large I/O arsenals.However, there is a huge small operator market from the
home/bedroom/hobby/small studio sector that could be on Dante NOW, and
while keeping their current devices, just expand as their requirements ments
grow. This is what AoIP promises.Many of these people are frustrated that they cannot expand their current
I/O capabilities, either on the local machine or remotely, without having to
replace perfectly functioning hardware.
On 24/01/2014, Aidan Williams, the CTO for Audinate, replied:
Thanks for your suggestion! We are always looking to make Dante more widely
used.I’ve passed your email on to our product management and I’m sure it will
help to influence what products and features we work on next.
After I came across Via on 25/06/2014, I replied:
Looks like my idea has become Dante Via?
to which Aidan replied:
As you can imagine, we have been working on Dante Via for long time before the launch last week at Infocommm. Your email (and others like it) gave us confidence that the features we planned to provide in Dante Via would be useful to a wide range of people.
Since Via will not be released until December this year, I have a suspicion that all is not quite the timing Aidan suggests. We are only talking about a Dante protocol wrapper for an ASIO driver here, both of which Audinate have prior experience with, so I would suspect that there would only be a few months for development, if that, and a lot of testing! Do the date maths.
Hmmmm!