Samsung has sold over 1 million curved monitors

[WYP]

Samsung has sold over 1 million curved monitors, with the company accounting for 85% of global curved monitor sales.

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[jimma47]

Single 27-27" curved monitors aren't really that effective, however get three of them together (or even two in a typical desktop scenario) and you'd be surprised how good they are.

No not awesome for designers or anyone that needs straight lines (to appear straight) but there are plenty of monitors for that.

 

[xnax2802]

I'm still amazed by how little good stands matter to the general public. Samsung makes some of the worst stands out there; low standard height and they only offer tilt adjustment. On top of that, there aren't very many of their monitors that have VESA compatibility

 

[Doomslayer]

I'm still amazed by how little good stands matter to the general public. Samsung makes some of the worst stands out there; low standard height and they only offer tilt adjustment. On top of that, there aren't very many of their monitors that have VESA compatibility

For some reason it doesn't bother people

 

[jimma47]

Because you'll find 90% (guestimate) of people never change their stands or do anything else aside from plonking it down on the desktop. Its' cheaper to produce and yeah the lack of VESA can be a pain for some (like me) but for a budget monitor - which a lot of them are - it's perfectly fine. People who would worry about height adjustability or rotation (not that you'd rotate a curved monitor) would be looking at the higher end typically.

 

[MacLeod]

I went to the Frys in Austin last week when I was in Texas on vacation and they had a several curved monitors up on display with gameplay footage running on them and honestly, I wasn't impressed. They had a couple LG's 21:9 and a Samsung 16:9 and the only real way I got anything "cool" out of the curved screen was if I was so close to it that it made me seasick. At normal viewing distance I couldn't tell anything different about it really.

Ive got jacked up eyesight so its probably a me problem more than anything else but I think Ill be sticking with the standard flat screen monitors for the foreseeable future cause I doubt my eyes will be getting better as I get older.

 

[TPC]

the curved experience really depends how low the radius of that monitor is. the new Samsung ones have the lowest radius ever with just 1.8m which means you could build a circle of monitors and it would have a radius of 1.8m. most monitors right now have a radius of 3.8 to 4m.

 

[xnax2802]

the curved experience really depends how low the radius of that monitor is. the new Samsung ones have the lowest radius ever with just 1.8m which means you could build a circle of monitors and it would have a radius of 1.8m. most monitors right now have a radius of 3.8 to 4m.

Doesn't that also translate to the optimal viewing distance in theory?

 

[TPC]

Doesn't that also translate to the optimal viewing distance in theory?

I guess so. I will get a Curved monitor in a few weeks and then I'll report back.