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Curved TVs Nothing But a Gimmick
Lucas123 (935744) writes "Currently, the hottest trend from TV manufacturers is to offer curved panels, but analysts say it's nothing more than a ploy to pander to consumers who want the latest, coolest-looking tech in their home. In the end, the TVs don't offer better picture quality. In fact, they offer a degraded view to anyone sitting off center. Samsung and LG claim that the curve provides a cinema-like experience by offering a more balanced and uniform view so that the edges of the set don't appear further away than the middle. Paul Gray, director of European TV Research for DisplaySearch, said those claims are nothing by pseudo-science. "Curved screens are a gimmick, much along the same lines as 3D TVs are," said Paul O'Donovan, Gartner's principal analyst for consumer electronics research."
Who watches TV anymore, let alone with friends, that is just some cruel torture
Samsung and LG want curved TVs to become all the rage because the only way to currently make them are using OLEDs and they own many of the patents for OLED screens. With that said, the Samsung OLED television got a glowing review from Consumer Reports - basically the only downside to the TV was the cost which is sure to come down in the future.
The odd bit is at the end of TFS where they say that curved TVs are a gimmick like 3D TVs.
Yeah, more accurate to say "3d is a gimmick like color TVs" The author reduces their credibility by dismissing 3D. He would have done better dismissing curved TVs as a gimmick like 4K is.
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We don't want curved, we don't want 3d.
We want High Dynamic Range (!)
Looking at a TV is still nowhere near looking out of the window.
If Pandora's box is destined to be opened, *I* want to be the one to open it.
I don't care much about 4K tvs, but I'm excited for the prospect of a large 4K monitor on my desktop.