  Despite the large budgets spent annually on astronomical research equipment
such as telescopes, instruments and supercomputers, the general trend is to
analyse and view the resulting datasets using small, two-dimensional displays.
We report here on alternative advanced image displays, with an emphasis on
displays that we have constructed, including stereoscopic projection, multiple
projector tiled displays and a digital dome. These displays can provide
astronomers with new ways of exploring the terabyte and petabyte datasets that
are now regularly being produced from all-sky surveys, high-resolution computer
simulations, and Virtual Observatory projects. We also present a summary of the
Advanced Image Displays for Astronomy (AIDA) survey which we conducted from
March-May 2005, in order to raise some issues pertitent to the current and
future level of use of advanced image displays.
