Curved is the new flat

So there we are then, we get rid of space hogging hurnier inducing crts, and
go wafer thin flat screen. Now by all acounts we are going curved screen.
Why? What is the point?

I've not seen one and don't even know what sort of curve we are talking
about, but buth LG and Samsung seem to be tallking up the idea offering
ideas like moor natural viewing, and stuff like that. Is this just another
fad or is there a valid good reason. I can see it now.
man standing beside his burned down house. Fireman saying, it was the
curved screen on your tv, guv, it focussed the sun on a pile of magazines
and whoosh.

Brian

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So there we are then, we get rid of space hogging hurnier inducing crts, and
go wafer thin flat screen. Now by all acounts we are going curved screen.
Why? What is the point?

I've not seen one and don't even know what sort of curve we are talking
about, but buth LG and Samsung seem to be tallking up the idea offering
ideas like moor natural viewing, and stuff like that. Is this just another
fad or is there a valid good reason. I can see it now.
man standing beside his burned down house. Fireman saying, it was the
curved screen on your tv, guv, it focussed the sun on a pile of magazines
and whoosh.

Brian


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Do horizons look bent as they can on curved screens in cinemas?

Regards
David

PS might be a gimmick like 3D as turned out to be.

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"Brian Gaff" wrote in message ...

So there we are then, we get rid of space hogging hurnier inducing crts,
and go wafer thin flat screen. Now by all acounts we are going curved
screen. Why? What is the point?


Do horizons look bent as they can on curved screens in cinemas?

And are the sensor arrays in the cameras also curved? If not, then a flat
screen may give better apparent geometry when viewed anyway.

Jim

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So there we are then, we get rid of space hogging hurnier inducing crts, and
go wafer thin flat screen. Now by all acounts we are going curved screen.
Why? What is the point?

I've not seen one and don't even know what sort of curve we are talking
about, but buth LG and Samsung seem to be tallking up the idea offering
ideas like moor natural viewing, and stuff like that. Is this just another
fad or is there a valid good reason. I can see it now.
man standing beside his burned down house. Fireman saying, it was the
curved screen on your tv, guv, it focussed the sun on a pile of magazines
and whoosh.

I went to John Lewis yesterday, and saw my first curved screen set. It
was simply weird and unnatural. But somehow, it had the effect of making
all the surrounding flat screen sets also seem unnatural!

To be honest, I simply can't see the point of curved screen which is
relatively small compared with something you might find in some cinemas.
The curve only works when you're watching from the focus - and even
then, you're still aware that it's curved.

I have to say that the picture quality was superb. It was very bright
(OK in the very high ambient lighting, but probably far brighter than
you would want at home), but the colours were still very natural.
However, the surface of the screen seemed highly reflective, and this
reflected all the surrounding lighting. In the right(?) circumstances,
it could indeed be a possible fire hazard. I therefore reckon I could
live with an OLED set - provided it was flat, and had the normal
semi-matt screen.
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Ian

I bet nobody else will even give it a moment's thought until it
actually happens, which sooner or later it surely will. I wonder if
the result will be a recall, a ban, or a disclaimer in the manual?

For somebody denied the power of sight you seem to be able to see
quite a lot. Perhaps you should be teaching Uruguayan architects how
to design buildings that don't melt Bentley wing mirrors in London, by
reminding them which way the sun shines in the opposite hemisphere.

Rod.

On Tue, 7 Jan 2014 08:45:10 -0000, "Brian Gaff"
wrote:

I can see it now.
man standing beside his burned down house. Fireman saying, it was the
curved screen on your tv, guv, it focussed the sun on a pile of magazines
and whoosh.

I don't really care as horizons are no longer accessible to me, but it was
announced apparently in Las Vagas recently, that mobile and home are about
to be curved.....

Brian

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"Brian Gaff" wrote in message ...

So there we are then, we get rid of space hogging hurnier inducing crts,
and
go wafer thin flat screen. Now by all acounts we are going curved screen.
Why? What is the point?

I've not seen one and don't even know what sort of curve we are talking
about, but buth LG and Samsung seem to be tallking up the idea offering
ideas like moor natural viewing, and stuff like that. Is this just another
fad or is there a valid good reason. I can see it now.
man standing beside his burned down house. Fireman saying, it was the
curved screen on your tv, guv, it focussed the sun on a pile of magazines
and whoosh.

Brian


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Do horizons look bent as they can on curved screens in cinemas?

Regards
David

PS might be a gimmick like 3D as turned out to be.

Grin, well I had sight so I can imagine most things unlike people who have
been blind since birth of course. I imagine its going to be more dangerous
with mobile curved devices, as one might stick t in the sun and start a
fire. This would presumably only work if the curve is in three dimensions
and a paro bala.
Hey, gimmick sat dish, with integral picture change it every day....
Brian

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I bet nobody else will even give it a moment's thought until it
actually happens, which sooner or later it surely will. I wonder if
the result will be a recall, a ban, or a disclaimer in the manual?

For somebody denied the power of sight you seem to be able to see
quite a lot. Perhaps you should be teaching Uruguayan architects how
to design buildings that don't melt Bentley wing mirrors in London, by
reminding them which way the sun shines in the opposite hemisphere.

Rod.

On Tue, 7 Jan 2014 08:45:10 -0000, "Brian Gaff"
wrote:

I can see it now.
man standing beside his burned down house. Fireman saying, it was the
curved screen on your tv, guv, it focussed the sun on a pile of magazines
and whoosh.

On 07/01/2014 13:39, Brian Gaff wrote:
I don't really care as horizons are no longer accessible to me, but it was
announced apparently in Las Vagas recently, that mobile and home are about
to be curved.....

Brian

On the news today there was an article about the CES in Las Vegas and a
curved smartphone or tablet was shown!

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Jeff

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Jim Lesurf wrote:

In article , David wrote:


"Brian Gaff" wrote in message ...

So there we are then, we get rid of space hogging hurnier inducing crts,
and go wafer thin flat screen. Now by all acounts we are going curved
screen. Why? What is the point?

There is little point with TVs. Cinema screens were flat, but with the
introduction of wide screens a slight curve was introduced to keep the
throw from the projector the same across the screen, thus minimising
brightness drop-off and distortion at the edges. Only with Cinerama and
Dimension 150 was the screen deep-curved to wrap round the audience and
involve them in the picture by filling their field of vision. Even IMAX
which aims at the same effect only curves the screen by enough to
equalize the throw across it.

With a TV is might look pretty for the person sitting dead centre, but
with a family watching it the people off-access are going to get more
distortion on the side of the screen they are off-axis on. It's a
gimmick.

If it's big enough it shouldn't matter that the curvature is only in
one axis, as that would just concentrate the sun's heat into a line
instead of a point. TV screens are getting bigger all the time, so a
TV screen with an area of about a couple of square metres will soon
become commonplace, and that's about 2kW of solar energy if it's
placed in the sun. Nobody will realise this because it hasn't been a
problem before. If the heat is concentrated into a line instead of a
point, then that will just increase the probability that some of it
will fall on something inflammable. Keep reading the Daily Mail, and
remember you read it here first...

Rod.

On Tue, 7 Jan 2014 13:43:49 -0000, "Brian Gaff"
wrote:

Grin, well I had sight so I can imagine most things unlike people who have
been blind since birth of course. I imagine its going to be more dangerous
with mobile curved devices, as one might stick t in the sun and start a
fire. This would presumably only work if the curve is in three dimensions
and a paro bala.
Hey, gimmick sat dish, with integral picture change it every day....
Brian

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"Roderick Stewart" wrote in message
.. .
I bet nobody else will even give it a moment's thought until it
actually happens, which sooner or later it surely will. I wonder if
the result will be a recall, a ban, or a disclaimer in the manual?

For somebody denied the power of sight you seem to be able to see
quite a lot. Perhaps you should be teaching Uruguayan architects how
to design buildings that don't melt Bentley wing mirrors in London, by
reminding them which way the sun shines in the opposite hemisphere.

Rod.

On Tue, 7 Jan 2014 08:45:10 -0000, "Brian Gaff"
wrote:

I can see it now.
man standing beside his burned down house. Fireman saying, it was the
curved screen on your tv, guv, it focussed the sun on a pile of magazines
and whoosh.