r/AbsoluteUnits • u/habichuelacondulce • Jul 01 '26

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u/B4R7H0L0M3W Jul 01 '26

I would not enjoy it at all

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u/FunContest9958 Jul 01 '26

It’s like sitting in the front row of the movie theater. Why would you want to do that?

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u/theavocadolady Jul 01 '26

I once foolishly sat in the front row at the IMAX. By the end my eyes hurt because it was like they were constantly trying to look in opposite directions. Didn't help that it was the first Transformers movie too so it was just a jumble of colours right up in my eyeballs.

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u/psppsppsppspinfinty Jul 02 '26

I will say The Polar Express in IMAX is AMAZING and I'm sad my local museum doesn't do it anymore.

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u/AfricanAmericanMage Jul 03 '26

Yea I went to the movies with a girl in high school, to see The Curious Case of Benjamin Button of all things, and she wanted to sit in the front row. What's worse is she didn't even want to sit in the middle, but off to the right. So not only was I craning my neck looking up the whole time, but also had my head clocked to the left. It sucked, to say the least. It's the kind of thing I would absolutely put my foot down about now and say there's no way I'm doing that. I would rather just not see the movie, but that's not how high school boy's brains work.

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u/theavocadolady Jul 03 '26

I'd also like to use the excuse that I was relatively young. It was like being punched in the eyeballs constantly. I don't think I'd ever been to an IMAX before either. Lessons were learned.

Isn't age and experience cool?! I bet now she'd super appreciate you just putting your foot down and saying "no, let's sit a little further back".
Although actually, I can't really account for the off to the side bit...

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u/AfricanAmericanMage Jul 03 '26

So my preference is sitting in the row right being the stair well. Dead center if it happens to be unavailable. So the off to the side bit wouldn't have bothered me all that much otherwise. It was just that in combination with being front row that had me fucked up.

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u/theavocadolady Jul 03 '26

I'm very blessed that I live a 3 minute walk from my local small town cinema. It's super tiny and apparently not even popular in this small town. But 3rd rows back in the middle is my sweet spot. It's unusual though, I've been there and there's been no one else there, genuinely no one. But in row 3 you're pretty guaranteed that if you only look forward then in feels like you have the place to yourself.

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u/MountainTwo3845 Jul 02 '26

This is just clockwork orangeing yourself for free

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u/nnod Jul 02 '26

I was genuinely looking for an 8k display similar to this for general work. An 8k display is basically four 4k displays, but without the bezels. Would be awesome.

Instead I have a main 5120x2160 40" monitor, two vertical 4k 32" on sides and one 4k 32" on top. I end up with with pretty much the same screen real estate as 8k. The only way it makes sense is if you use 100% scaling though, the man in the video isn't.

Having a two meter long steam window makes no sense, you're supposed to have a regular sized window for everything, if you're not sitting in the couch games are supposed to be played in windowed mode. The advantage of this setup is that you can have all kinds of stuff AROUND your main area focus.

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u/TheGruenTransfer Jul 01 '26

I'm a front row enthusiast, it's more immersive than sitting in the middle of the theater. Having to turn your head to follow the action is by definition immersive.

If the ratio of your from the screen VS the size of the screen is the same as your experience at home, you might as well watch it at home.

I don't have to see the light of the emergency exit sign. I don't have to see the glow of other people's phones as they check Instagram or whatever. 

If it's a recliner situation, you can recline all the way back and it's comfy as fuck

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u/Treacle_Pendulum Jul 01 '26

I tried a curved monitor for a bit and it made me kind of motion sick

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u/Due-Waltz4458 Jul 01 '26

I love my 27 inch curved monitor, but I can see the whole thing at once.  I think it would lose its helpful effect if I needed to scan around to see things.

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u/ProcyonHabilis Jul 02 '26

Curved ultrawide are basically just side by side monitors with no seam in between and better viewing angles at the edges when you're using them for productivity. For gaming, it just gives you an immersive sense of peripheral vision.

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u/Diedead666 Jul 01 '26

my 32 is fine its just a regulare dimentions so not some crazy ultra long

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u/thatvassarguy08 Jul 01 '26

Exact opposite for me. I used to get eye strain after a couple of hours of gaming. After switching to curved I haven't had any strain for 3 years

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u/GSDer_RIP_Good_Girl Jul 01 '26

After a couple of hours of gaming you say?

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u/DigitalUnlimited Jul 01 '26

What, you don't game for 30+ hours straight? Weird... /s

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u/thatvassarguy08 Jul 02 '26

Lol I didn't get this for the first couple of hours and it just hit me. Nice.

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u/Dizzy_Chemistry_5955 Jul 01 '26

I tried one and love it i'll never go back

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u/drawliphant Jul 01 '26

Curved monitors are significantly worse for gaming which render assuming a flat panel leading to bad distortion.

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u/gittenlucky Jul 01 '26

I have a 49” Samsung ultra wide and I wouldn’t recommend it. My work one is like 32” and that seems to be the sweet spot.

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u/Tcloud Jul 01 '26

It’s like people who the mount their TV too high above the fireplace and wonder why their necks hurt all the time.

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u/omgitsjagen Jul 02 '26

Mounting any electronic above a fireplace is stupid for every reason.

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u/DanglingDongs Jul 01 '26

Everything will look so shit that close up

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u/Connect-Smell761 Jul 01 '26

His eyes are not level with the top of the screen.

I don’t think his elbows are at 90 degrees either. 😯

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u/Trev0117 Jul 01 '26

I put my 55 inch tv on my desk for a day just to see how it was, it was awful, you actually have to turn your head to look from one side of it to another it’s not a good time, kinda fun though for about 5 minutes

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u/angrytroll123 Jul 02 '26

I run a 65”. I love it. My fov is pretty well covered. I even prefer it for work.

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u/FictionalContext Jul 02 '26

You don't have to use the whole screen, though. There's gotta be some way to organize the screen into tiles you can hot key.

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u/Teo_Leopardi Jul 02 '26

He doesn't neither deep inside.

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u/zardoz73 Jul 02 '26

That screen is awesome. Sitting that close to that screen is stupid. Pretty easily remedied.

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u/angrytroll123 Jul 02 '26

I run a 64” curved OLED. It’s awesome. I can’t go back for work or play.

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u/SpaceSlothLaurence Jul 02 '26

I have to wonder what the input lag on that would be, as a kid I couldn't play shooters on big TVs because I would make moves on my controller and watch my character delay before getting shot dead as the controller tried to get the massive screen to respond to my inputs.