I don't like curved displays

Posted by max__dev 9/8/2025

I don't like curved displays(blog.danielh.cc)

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beanjuiceII 9/8/2025|

i never thought i'd like a curved display until i got one..now i want to move all my monitors to curved...i guess to each their own!

JohnFen 9/9/2025||

I had no opinion until I was assigned one at work. My opinion is the opposite of yours. I find it very annoying (for reasons entirely unrelated to what the article is talking about), and wish that I could swap it out. I may smuggle my own monitor in to do that.

Different strokes for different folks!

bityard 9/12/2025|||

I think LCDs have been around long enough that we no longer notice all the problems with them. If you have a large monitor on your desk, chances are very good that there is nowhere you can place your head where some part of the display doesn't look noticeably darker than another part. You can TRY to compensate for that by cranking the brightness up, but then you set yourself up for eye strain.

I'm lead to believe that OLED displays don't have these issues (and have much better color fidelity as well) but they have a limited lifespan.

tbomb 9/12/2025|||

For me, I've found that some curved displays are better than others. My home monitor is curved, on a seemingly very large radius, and I love it!

However some that I've used that are more curved make everything look distorted.

Insanity 9/12/2025|||

I've been thinking of getting one. What is your use-case and why do you like it? Mine would be mostly work, but at least some gaming each week.

ge96 9/12/2025||

My regret is I didn't buy a 4K one at 32" but it's still good

Some of my buddies have that 8K Samsung one, that one is nuts to see in person

layer8 9/12/2025||

The eye adjusts to it. Since getting used to a curved monitor, flat monitors now look convex-curved like an old CRT to me when sitting in front of them.

ziml77 9/12/2025|

Yes! The edges of my large, flat monitor feel like they are curved outwards. It's certainly not a huge deal, but next time I get a monitor this large I'll be going with curved to counteract that effect.

maxlin 9/13/2025||

This is only true if the monitor is the size of the CMOS/CCD sensor. Which it pretty much never is.

Not the highest effort blog post. I'm actually a bit curious why it's on the front page though. Accidental engagement bait? :D

seper8 9/12/2025||

I have a 2x 4k ultrawide. The Samsung Oddysey 55(?)inch variant.

Not only is it very bright and legible, the fact that the screen takes up my field of view helps me focus.

And I connect it to my MacBook using two seperate HDMI cables, so it's essentially two seperate monitors without bezels. I think I'll probably keep this monitor for a decade or so: any higher DPI and it doesn't make any difference because you have to size up the text. Any brighter and my eyes will burn out of their sockets.

zamadatix 9/12/2025||

The top end Samsung Odyssey monitors definitely near impossible to beat with any other choice for folks that prefer curved displays. For folks that like flat, something like the PG32UQX is probably one of the better equivalents since the flat Odyssey monitors always assume "I want the highest end version" = "I want the curved version".

For those who don't care about maximum brightness quite as much, the new OLEDs are getting quite good for both curved and flat (though the lifespan issue isn't quite as fully solved as the manufacturers would like to have you believe, it's significantly better).

> any higher DPI and it doesn't make any difference because you have to size up the text.

I get irked (to perhaps irrational levels) when a monitor's DPI (really PPI) is phrased in terms of how big text appears. Text is already sized in physically based units (even when CSS lies and says "px" it's really fractions of an inch, similar to pt), DPI is how sharp/clear the text ends up looking for the given font size.

A monitor with twice the DPI should give you clearer text, not smaller text.

helsinki 9/12/2025||

How do you use two of these massive monitors? They are stacked vertically?

seper8 9/15/2025||

Sorry, I should have been more clear: the resolution is equal to two 4k monitors glued together.

timeinput 9/13/2025||

My ideal coding configuration is 3-4x vertical 32" UHD screens (with the smallest bezels you can get) in a 'curved' formation.

I find that configuration miserable for any hobby activities. I really like a horizontal screen, and curved is nice, but one screen even the ultra wides just isn't enough for work.

Maybe I could imagine a pair of ultra wides in an over/under configuration, but I really like vertical real estate.

eviks 9/12/2025||

> so viewing the image on a flat screen looks exactly the same as how it originally appeared.

What about all the other things you view on your screen?

_zoltan_ 9/12/2025||

I used to not like them until I've switched to the 57", 1000R Samsung. I love it.

cwmoore 9/12/2025||

I have a view of a brick wall, that has a setback, so the left part of the wall is closer than the part to the right. From a certain distance, the setback has six vertical courses aligning with the mortar and on the closer face of the wall every five courses. I wonder how perceptive our visual areas might be with respect to pixels when I see the shattered shadows of LED panel parking lot lights (32 individual point sources) or the strobe at night of headlights. Still, I would like a curved display. Maybe a Las Vegas Eyeball.

zkmon 9/13/2025||

This is so true. Glad someone posted about it. But ofcourse, the buyers won't care. They are easily sold with the idea that the far edges of the screen have low angle of view if the screen isn't curved. When people believe myths, sell them myths. When they believe the purpose of computers and phone is to share photos and videos, sell them fb and ig.

Also, for companies buying the curved monitors, the looks of the monitors across the workplace fit nicely into their "modernization" targets. No physics needed.

antonvs 9/13/2025|

I’ve recently been using (in different locations) a flat 27” 4K, a flat 32” 4K, and an old (2018) 34” curved 3440x1440.

I find the flat 32” too large to use at normal desktop distances, because the corners are in a bad position/distance/angle to actually read easily. This isn’t a “myth”, it’s what I experience.

For me, the curved 34” doesn’t have this problem. The only problem I find with it is its resolution is too low for its size (i.e. low DPI).

As a result I actually like the flat 27” best, but I suspect a larger curved monitor with higher DPI would be nice.

curvedstan 9/12/2025|

Curved displays are great if you are near a window or any other light source that causes glare. I switched from flat to curved and there’s no more glare on my display.

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