curved TV - worth it?

D3K · 15 Jul 2015 at 13:28

It's pointless and nonsense.
You can give as many reasons as you want for its practicality but at the end of the day, we all grew up with CRT TVs that had the opposite curvature. No one ever grumbled thinking it was sub-standard, not until the flat screen trinitron style sets came out and we were convinced via physics logic that it must be better.
Same **** here, different year.

xGBHxPegasus · 15 Jul 2015 at 15:44

Ekim said:
I have a curved TV (Samsung UE55HU8500) and as far as I can tell the curve brings absolutely nothing to the game. Sitting in front of it (around 6/7ft away) you can't tell its curved.

I didn't want a curved TV but ended up the the 8500 as I managed to get it on a pretty good deal.

Got the same TV and pretty much would say the same.

It was either a curved or 3D and I didn't want 3D. You don't really notice it at all.

MOOGLEYS · 18 Jul 2015 at 00:45

The OLED I had was slightly curved and my wife who sits at an angle to the TV said the picture looked distorted but is fine on the flat TV we have now.

Haggisman · 19 Jul 2015 at 01:19

D3K said:
It's pointless and nonsense.
You can give as many reasons as you want for its practicality but at the end of the day, we all grew up with CRT TVs that had the opposite curvature. No one ever grumbled thinking it was sub-standard, not until the flat screen trinitron style sets came out and we were convinced via physics logic that it must be better.
Same **** here, different year.

You could say the same about HD though? We all grew up with 480p and no one complained until 1080p became widespread

Fwiw I agree that curved TV's are a gimmick unless you're sat close/dead centre, but the argument that "it used to be OK so why improve it" isnt really a good one against innovation/new tech

D3K · 19 Jul 2015 at 01:35

There's a massive difference between resolution and the shape of a screen. You're right that no one complained because we didn't know any better, but one look at higher resolution and you can immediately see the improvement.

I still gape in awe at some of the 4k screens in shops. I look at curved and think wtf