Are curved TV's dead?

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Never seen the fascination in them myself and most every day people I know seem indifferent towards them at best.
 
I don't think they were ever alive to be honest and were just a thing that manufacturers were pushing because they could.
The biggest problem is that curved TV's don't have a defined benefit or purpose and have some rather more defined disadvantages.
 
Having a curved TV never appealed to me especially if your not in a position to have everyone viewing the TV directly infront of it.
 
more were announced at CES here ,
...whathifi journalism ....

I could have put up with a curve at the sub £1K Amazon had sold off the 1080p oled's
 
we'll agree to disagree - I now read the article, whathifi imply curves are all gone across the market,
and - 'sin of ommission' neglect to say there were new announcements ...
still there are worse sinners in the school of sensationalist journalism - the BBC ?

We've always been open-minded about the curve and in fact gave LG's curved OLED55C6V an Award just last year. The good news is if you're in the market for a curved TV you might be able to track down some great TV deals on last year's models before the class of 2017 go on sale.

Just recently we've seen a petition to bring back 3D TVs - could we see the same for the curve or has it been well and truly flattened?
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..playing devils advocate - many of the imax screens are curved and they give a very immersive full field of view experience,
so if I had bottomless pockets and a large enough dedicated room i think i would audition one,
however in a smaller room and sub 50", I think practicalities of sitting at focus/sweet spot maybe difficult.
 
jpaul said:
..playing devils advocate - many of the imax screens are curved and they give a very immersive full field of view experience,
so if I had bottomless pockets and a large enough dedicated room i think i would audition one,
however in a smaller room and sub 50", I think practicalities of sitting at focus/sweet spot maybe difficult.
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Isn't that more to do with filling your field of view? I doubt you'll get that at home unless you like to sit very close to your TV, curved screen or not.
 
many folks are sitting closer to their 4K than the size of the screen - I am agnostic

but continuing the trolling of whathifi journalism - happened to see a balanced curved article on flatpanelshd ...
surprising that google do not also have that article near top of search list -
... The truth/facts according to google first
 
jpaul said:
many folks are sitting closer to their 4K than the size of the screen - I am agnostic

but continuing the trolling of whathifi journalism - happened to see a balanced curved article on flatpanelshd ...
surprising that google do not also have that article near top of search list -
... The truth/facts according to google first
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That article suggests that the curve is dying as well and only Samsung seem to be clinging on to it?

What about the others? Philips abandoned the curve last year. Panasonic, too. Of all the new Sony 2017 high-end TVs none of them were curved. South Korean LG has also decided to kill the gimmick. None of the new LG OLED or LCD TVs will be curved in 2017. Walking around at CES, we did spot a few curved TVs, mostly from Chinese brands, but as TCL told us; these will be made available only in select Asian countries. Americans and Europeans are not interested.

All data that we have been presented points to curved TVs not selling well. Samsung has been alone in insisting that sales have been going swimmingly by making up more or less fanciful segments to refer to. The world’s largest TV maker will probably insist that this is the case until it no longer sells curved TVs but putting CES 2017 in perspective there can be no doubt that even Samsung is rolling back its major bet on the curve.
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spoffle said:
Curved TVs make no sense. Curved monitors on the other hand make a lot of sense.
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+1

due to proximity of seating to a monitor it makes complete sense to have a curved one , but as tv's are usually that much further away it always appeared pointless (although it didnt really bother me, fortunately wasnt in the market for a new tv until now so didnt have to make a choice)
 
FrankJH said:
+1

due to proximity of seating to a monitor it makes complete sense to have a curved one , but as tv's are usually that much further away it always appeared pointless (although it didnt really bother me, fortunately wasnt in the market for a new tv until now so didnt have to make a choice)
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This is still something which is a bit of a mystery to me.

PC users want curved IPS panels.

TV users want flat VA panels.

TV users say they sit head on so don't need viewing angles then why wouldn't you want curved? PC users supposedly sit at an angle therefore they want IPS however why would they also want curved?

Basically it should be IPS and Flat or VA and Curved.

Both markets seem to be confused.

Would I buy a curved screen? Yes I would for my bedroom or gaming setups. For my living room though it will need to be flat.
 
I have not understood the reason for curved TV's unless you are looking at having a dedicated cinema room and then you are more than likely to be looking at projector with true curved screen at something like 2750x1500 or similar.

TV's to really work in an arrangement where you have the viewing ability of at least 4 people are going to be in the 72" (1830mm) range anyways. If it is for 2 people central to the TV then a screen of 60" (1525mm) would also be suitable. Any less and you start to notice the curve I find if you are at the correct viewing distance. Of course if you are closer then it negates this slightly but you can only move so far.

The further back you move, it actually creates a tunnel vision effect that drawers your eyes centrally and makes you naturally focus on the middle of the screen thus not really seeing the picture.
 
Psycho Sonny said:
This is still something which is a bit of a mystery to me.

PC users want curved IPS panels.

TV users want flat VA panels.

TV users say they sit head on so don't need viewing angles then why wouldn't you want curved? PC users supposedly sit at an angle therefore they want IPS however why would they also want curved?

Basically it should be IPS and Flat or VA and Curved.

Both markets seem to be confused.

Would I buy a curved screen? Yes I would for my bedroom or gaming setups. For my living room though it will need to be flat.
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I am not sure on this, where has it been suggested that PC users sit at an angle to their screen? That would certainly not be the case for myself or anyone I know who all centrally locate their monitors.

On the other hand, home TV users often have arrangements of furniture so that maybe 2 people are central but two are at an angle to the TV due to our living room sizes. This would mean that it often isn't the case that people are viewing their TV centrally. Especially when you have guests over.

There is a big difference I think to what you are saying and what is reality.
 
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