I just finished watching Distant (Uzak), a movie set in Turkey, and one of the characters had an amazing-looking flat-planel monitor for his computer. I’ve put off buying an LCD monitor because they’re all so clunky and ugly, but this guy’s looked like an early 20th century desk lamp. It was all brass and had a fully flexible adjustment arm like the flat-paneled iMacs. I thought I could make out the name Sony on the back of it, but of course, Sony doesn’t have a monitor like that on their U.S. site, and they don’t have a Turkey site. Did anybody else see this movie and does anyone know where I can get this monitor?
I found Sony’s Turkish site but it’s still not there 
Nobody? Nobody has seen Distant, or cares about an early twentieth-century looking LCD monitor?
Thanks for the laugh.
Maybe it was a custom made prop. Either way, it does sound, based on your description, quite beautiful.
Almost all LCD monitors have a VESA standard mounting hole pattern of four threaded holes in the back. You can get all sorts of arms and wall mounts that can be used with such monitors. So it’s possible that what you saw was a Sony monitor with another company’s arm. If you search the web, you’ll find many models of these arms, and you may be able to identify the one that was shown in the movie.
I bought the DVD so I could get a capture. Does this ring anyone’s bell? Not quite as brass as I first described it, but still better than anything I’ve seen at Best Buy.
im not sure but that looks like an iMac keyboard and mouse.
It’s a Sony SDM-N50 monitor, although it’s been discontinued. BTW, I get the impression that it was expensive when it was available. I agree that it’s much cooler looking than others, but any LCD monitor is much less clunky than a CRT, and some are cooler than others.
Another thing. A big reason that monitor looks so sleek is that a lot of the electronics are in a separate box that sits elsewhere and sends power, video and audio to the display via a single cable.
There’s a good review of it, including detailed pictures, here.
I haven’t seen the movie, nor have anything really constructive to add about the intricacies of turn-of-the-century LCD’s, but according to my ex-GF - who is from Turkey - Distant is supposed to be an amazing film.
So, we may actually call this a 1920’s-style LCD display?
Wow, thanks! I’m glad I didn’t buy this DVD for nothing!