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I don't like curved displays

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Re: I don't like curved displays

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For the investment of one image, maybe a second image might have made your point. I don't like curved displays either, but I observe many widescreen photos offer a distorted view of the scene taken on a large flat monitor, since the lens is a compromise as is printing on flat media, and so the image as presented from a wide-angle is NOT accurate, any more than a curved screen of a 55mm lens would be. The problem here is horses-for-courses: if you have a wide curved screen then you should ask your digital devices to render images as if they are being displayed on a curved surface, not as if they are flat.

Anamorphic lenses should be projected/presented on curved surfaces and packages like Hugin will render images which should look pretty good on a curved surface of a known radius, assembled from sets of non-curved flat images put together in a panorama. Or apps like Bimostitch on android, which looks to use the same algorithms.

I don't like curved screens because I haven't learned to rotate my head the way needed to deal with content on the edge. I like dual monitors in a V more than a single wide-screen because they can be independently desktop-panned, only some widescreens do this (by s/w rendering it as two heads)

For some work (Audacity - audio editing, and related video work) a wide screen is fantastic. Horses for courses.

Re: I don't like curved displays

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i never thought i'd like a curved display until i got one..now i want to move all my monitors to curved...i guess to each their own!

I had no opinion until I was assigned one at work. My opinion is the opposite of yours. I find it very annoying (for reasons entirely unrelated to what the article is talking about), and wish that I could swap it out. I may smuggle my own monitor in to do that.

Different strokes for different folks!

Re: I don't like curved displays

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I use a nice 32" 4k IPS panel for work and it's borderline OK in the corners. However I got a really wide curved screen for a second computer and in that case I really appreciate the shape just because it mitigates the distortion somewhat.

Re: I don't like curved displays

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i never thought i'd like a curved display until i got one..now i want to move all my monitors to curved...i guess to each their own!

For me, I've found that some curved displays are better than others. My home monitor is curved, on a seemingly very large radius, and I love it!

However some that I've used that are more curved make everything look distorted.

Re: I don't like curved displays

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post #2

For the investment of one image, maybe a second image might have made your point. I don't like curved displays either, but I observe many widescreen photos offer a distorted view of the scene taken on a large flat monitor, since the lens is a compromise as is printing on flat media, and so the image as presented from a wide-angle is NOT accurate, any more than a curved screen of a 55mm lens would be. The problem here…

This got me thinking, are there any games that have a graphics setting for monitor curvature? Because they should, IIRC the standard is rectilinear rendering, where the perspective comes out correct only if the monitor is flat. But if people can get used to glasses that severely distort the image, I guess this isn't a big deal.

Also, my obligatory rant, ultrawide monitors do not exist, only ultrashort, and 16:10 shouldn't have become a "premium/business/designer/prosumer" option, it should just be the standard. Nobody gets a VR headset and crops off the bottom and top thirds of the image and claims it's more immersive that way.

Re: I don't like curved displays

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i never thought i'd like a curved display until i got one..now i want to move all my monitors to curved...i guess to each their own!

I've been thinking of getting one. What is your use-case and why do you like it? Mine would be mostly work, but at least some gaming each week.

Re: I don't like curved displays

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i never thought i'd like a curved display until i got one..now i want to move all my monitors to curved...i guess to each their own!

My regret is I didn't buy a 4K one at 32" but it's still good

Some of my buddies have that 8K Samsung one, that one is nuts to see in person

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