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at CES 2014 curved TVs were all the rage

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at least if you ask someone who manufactures

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TVs as a techie with my journalism hat

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on I was interested in the technology behind it OLED displays are thin and

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they're light they offer Fast Response times Amazing Black levels better energy

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efficient and now they're able to be curved this unlocks amazing new form

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factors for devices with screens you can wrap around your wrist and bed as a

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heads up display on a windshield or helmet and so much

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more unfortunately when it was time to put my general consumer who has to

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actually spend money on this stuff hat on I concluded that at least in their

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current form curv display TVs leave a lot to be desired there are a lot of

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theoretical benefits being promoted by marketing folks including better

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immersion and more natural viewing experience with references being made to

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other situations where curved screens are already used most notably in

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projection movie theaters the issue with this is that the benefits of curved

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displays in theaters that is to say pin cushion reduction improved brightness

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uniformity and the ability to have an image wrap around the viewer as it fills

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up a huge portion of their field of view none of this has anything to do with a

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55 in non- projection TV that's going to sit in your living room there is some

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promotion of curv screen technology that might have some basis in reality uh that

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it reduces eye fatigue by ensuring every every part of the screen is an equal

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distance from the viewer's eye meaning there's no need to refocus when looking

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from one part of the screen to the other but even that claim has some serious

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problems with the current product offerings in order for the eye to be an

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equal distance from every part of the panel you would have to be sitting in

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exactly The Sweet Spot Not only dead center in front of the TV but also at

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the correct distance so you're in the middle of a theoretical Circle that

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would be formed by the curvature of your TV Dennis Berger from home techel looked

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at one of LG's of TVs and determined you would have to be 11 ft from it for the

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positioning to be optimal I mean I guess you could sit there but what if you

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wanted to watch a movie with a group of friends someone is going to get the

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short straw and end up with a picture that's not only not better than a flat

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TV but actually distorted and worse and

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the real world drawbacks only start with the required exact seating position for

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a non-distorted image they they don't wall mount for now and they are

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extremely expensive compared to Flat Alternatives the worst part of all this

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is that both LG and Samsung were already showing off 21 by9 aspect ratio 100 plus

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inch Ultra HD curved screens that genuinely made the technology compelling

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as if to say look we know it's pointless right now but just bear with us for a

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couple of years while we bring this to Market this will curve around you and be

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more immersive but it's just too big of a change for us to do all at once

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what you think of the future of curv TVs

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would you buy one now in a year in 5

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years are you going to wait for 21 by9

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so that it actually fills your field of you or are you okay with a regular old

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16x9 widescreen TV thanks again for for

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