I don't like curved displays

Posted by max__dev 4 days ago

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

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back2dafucha 16 hours ago|

Little curve good, big curve bad. Imagine its 20 years ago before these monitors were made and you had multiple monitors.

Ever see a dashboard chihuahua? (Or on the rear deck of a car). Thats you if you use a multimonitor setup. Do that for even 10 years, your neck hurts and your focus is distracted because you cant look straight ahead at your work and are constantly turning your head from left to right all day.

Its a bad ergo. Little curve good. Big curve only for gaming immersion. I refuse to use dual monitors even if a 27 inch panel is provided.

Joker_vD 15 hours ago|

Is turning you head left and right really worse for the neck than rigidly keeping staring straight for hours? Somehow I find it hard to believe.

Dilettante_ 6 hours ago||

Yeah, "turning your head is an unnatural movement" is a wild take. Setting aside the matter of ancestral environment, there are plenty of professions where people work at a desk/workstation on which they have to look at different "zones" while working.

_zoltan_ 20 hours ago||

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

ziml77 17 hours ago||

I have a 32 inch flat display and I actually do think it would have been better with a bit of a curve. It would help keep the distance of all points of the screen from me more consistent. If I sat another couple feet back from the display, then I think the flat screen would make more sense because the relative difference in distance would be smaller.

Havoc 15 hours ago||

Depends on size. With a 49" it absolutely helps because it reduced how much you need to change the distance your eyes are focusing at between center and sides.

pfedak 21 hours ago||

This is nonsense, at least in part because it's mixing two different ideas. The notion that the image "looks exactly the same as how it originally appeared" is only true when one of your eyes is positioned exactly where the camera sensor would have been, which requires a specific distance away from the screen.

Lines in 3D remaining straight in a photo is unrelated and not actually demonstrated by the image. I'm having trouble imagining why this matters - you're trying to find the intersection of two lines in an image without drawing anything?

nancyminusone 21 hours ago||

I don't like them either, because they reflect and focus sound back at you.

maxlin 12 hours ago||

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

curvedstan 21 hours ago||

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.

ubermonkey 21 hours ago||

I don't get 'em either.

What I really don't like are superwide monitors. They play hell with usability in screen-sharing contexts.

ziml77 16 hours ago|

That was a concern when I had an ultrawide monitor. Fortunately I remote into work and the screen share happens on that remote side. So whenever I had to screen share, I would take Citrix Viewer out of full screen and size the window to my best estimate of 16:9. I don't think anyone ever knew that I was using an ultrawide monitor, though I do wonder if they ever noticed that the aspect ratio of my desktop shifted a bit between each sharing session.

seper8 21 hours ago|

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 20 hours ago||

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 16 hours ago||

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

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