at CES 2014 curved TVs were all the rage
at least if you ask someone who manufactures
TVs as a techie with my journalism hat
on I was interested in the technology behind it OLED displays are thin and
they're light they offer Fast Response times Amazing Black levels better energy
efficient and now they're able to be curved this unlocks amazing new form
factors for devices with screens you can wrap around your wrist and bed as a
heads up display on a windshield or helmet and so much
more unfortunately when it was time to put my general consumer who has to
actually spend money on this stuff hat on I concluded that at least in their
current form curv display TVs leave a lot to be desired there are a lot of
theoretical benefits being promoted by marketing folks including better
immersion and more natural viewing experience with references being made to
other situations where curved screens are already used most notably in
projection movie theaters the issue with this is that the benefits of curved
displays in theaters that is to say pin cushion reduction improved brightness
uniformity and the ability to have an image wrap around the viewer as it fills
up a huge portion of their field of view none of this has anything to do with a
55 in non- projection TV that's going to sit in your living room there is some
promotion of curv screen technology that might have some basis in reality uh that
it reduces eye fatigue by ensuring every every part of the screen is an equal
distance from the viewer's eye meaning there's no need to refocus when looking
from one part of the screen to the other but even that claim has some serious
problems with the current product offerings in order for the eye to be an
equal distance from every part of the panel you would have to be sitting in
exactly The Sweet Spot Not only dead center in front of the TV but also at
the correct distance so you're in the middle of a theoretical Circle that
would be formed by the curvature of your TV Dennis Berger from home techel looked
at one of LG's of TVs and determined you would have to be 11 ft from it for the
positioning to be optimal I mean I guess you could sit there but what if you
wanted to watch a movie with a group of friends someone is going to get the
short straw and end up with a picture that's not only not better than a flat
TV but actually distorted and worse and
the real world drawbacks only start with the required exact seating position for
a non-distorted image they they don't wall mount for now and they are
extremely expensive compared to Flat Alternatives the worst part of all this
is that both LG and Samsung were already showing off 21 by9 aspect ratio 100 plus
inch Ultra HD curved screens that genuinely made the technology compelling
as if to say look we know it's pointless right now but just bear with us for a
couple of years while we bring this to Market this will curve around you and be
more immersive but it's just too big of a change for us to do all at once
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