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Originally Posted by
8mile13
Geoff Morrison c|net
''I can imagine the curve is something you can get used to, just like any artifact..''
Much bigger artifact is the unsatisfactory sense of depth to the picture. The ultimate goal of the whole video industry is to provide solutions which better mimic how real life looks. It is fact that curved screens were introduced because of pure marketing reasons, but that doesn't exclude the fact they greatly contribute to the sense of realism/depth.
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Originally Posted by
rogo
When you are sitting really close to monitors, if you set them up flat, the far corners are meaningfully far away vs. the centers. This does not apply to a 55" TV viewed from what the vast majority of people would consider a normal viewing distance.
Not true. It applies to a 55" TV watched from a normal distance. The error is much less in comparison to your monitor example, but its still there!
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Originally Posted by
rogo
Even if this is true -- and I'm not of the opinion it's especially so -- it only removes the error at some specific distance from the screen. At other distances it can change the error, but cannot magically remove it. The perfect distance would depend on the curve radius -- different from LG and Samsung -- and would be unlikely to be the viewing distance in your living room.
That's correct, the error can be zero only at a specific distance, depending on the radius of the curve and the size of the screen. At any other distances the error exists, but at distances which are shorter than the radius of the curve - the error is still
smaller than an equally sized flat screen! If the viewer is at longer distance than the screen's radius, then the error goes up, because in that situation the center of the screen is at longer distance compared to its sides and the subjective feeling is as if the picture starts to close within itself, which is unnatural. That's why the curve should be of relatively big radius as the new Panasonic OLED, which is so gently curved that it almost seems flat compared for example to Samsung displays.