Plenty of information provided so that people can make up their own minds. I read nothing that would convince me that I should want to own a curved panel at any size. The slight advantages they provide under limited conditions, would not compensate for the cumbersome depth problems they will cause at the larger sizes.
No they don't. The LG has the best viewing angles out of any tv I've ever seen. You can look at it completely sideways and it barely loses any discernable contrast or color. Off angle viewing basically could not improve any further.
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No they don't. The LG has the best viewing angles out of any tv I've ever seen. You can look at it completely sideways and it barely loses any discernable contrast or color. Off angle viewing basically could not improve any further.
Plague, in 2012 I carefully examined the LM7600 and LM8600 and both lost a lot of saturation at 45° off the perpendicular. I really wasn't happy with that supposed "IPS is 178°" business they were floating around. In fact, one of the older sony's (I believe using one of the S-PVA variants) had much better viewing angles and frankly I have no idea why. But IPS is no where near 178° IME.
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Plague, in 2012 I carefully examined the LM7600 and LM8600 and both lost a lot of saturation at 45° off the perpendicular. I really wasn't happy with that supposed "IPS is 178°" business they were floating around. In fact, one of the older sony's (I believe using one of the S-PVA variants) had much better viewing angles and frankly I have no idea why. But IPS is no where near 178° IME.
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Plague, in 2012 I carefully examined the LM7600 and LM8600 and both lost a lot of saturation at 45° off the perpendicular. I really wasn't happy with that supposed "IPS is 178°" business they were floating around. In fact, one of the older sony's (I believe using one of the S-PVA variants) had much better viewing angles and frankly I have no idea why. But IPS is no where near 178° IME.
Oh gotcha. Actually I just looked up those two models and it said "cinema screen" which I assumed meant curved. But I guess it meant IPS, and yeah those panels are overrated. But you're looking for viewing angles in the LCD world there aren't a while lot of places to look.
That barely is just a scratch on the surface. Multimonitor setups are quite common in high-end gaming. Substituting them with single wide curved monitor is natural target for this area. Maybe the Asus monitor is a first sign of things to come. One should just regret it is not a 21:9 monitor of 36" size and slightly bigger bending, this would likely make a very nice desktop.
Unfortunately a lot of vapor is pumped into meaningless curving of TVs while for the desktops there is a real need for wide-factor screens with more significant amount of bending.
I wonder if at least in research labs somewhere optimal bending for desktop is being investigated. For example should curved desktop display always have circular bent or could they be some nonlinearity, e.g.almost flat in the center field and bending more on the sides? Significant nonlinearity would obviously lead to picture distortions.
I love that Samsung line: now every seat in the house is the best seat, with picture of circular opera house.
Oh but wait, isn't the stage flat? It's the audience seating that is arranged in a curve. Their stupid analogy does not even make sense within the context of their dubious claim.
Perhaps they mean the TV has an array of cameras and the curved arrangement allows the TV to watch YOU in the most optimal manner!
I can't wait until my "antique" Sony CRT is back in vogue! Evrything since then has been a degradation in picture quality. I'm still holding onto my old plasma to remind me what picture quality used to be like.
Do I "need" a curved screen? No way! I've NEVER used the 3D aspect of my TV, the family can't tell the HD stations from the SD ones, but I'm sure they'll "ooh and ahh" over the newest model, and say we must have it!
No, does the world need Sony? But seriously Samsung doesn't say much about the future of Plasma TVs; and it would be nice to have 3 [plasma] screen makers again, even with higher prices. I have my fingers crossed.
Bored might be the right word. I think people believe that "curved" must be better or why would they make it. Remember. these PEOPLE thought LED was a new technology and a lot of them still do. We're kind of brain washed to believe what we're told regarding certain industries.
+1. Wasn't it Samsung that first started labeling the tv boxes with LED, with no mention at all of LCD, so everyone thought it was the next generation of a new tv? Kinda like labeling UHD (3840) as 4k.
Interestingly, Samsung was one of the first to properly label their TVs as UHD as opposed to 4K. Of course in reality, there is little difference in resolution between true 4K and UHD.
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+1. Wasn't it Samsung that first started labeling the tv boxes with LED, with no mention at all of LCD, so everyone thought it was the next generation of a new tv? Kinda like labeling UHD (3840) as 4k.
I'm not a Vizio fan as most of you know. But if Vizio can come thru with their promises and properly support it with quality components, I'd happily eat my words.
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