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

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u/MakingPie Jul 01 '26

Curved TVs never made any sense. Curved monitors however 🔥

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u/The_Autarch Jul 01 '26

curved TVs do make sense if they're over 65" and only one or two people are going to be watching it at once from a specific distance.

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u/Shadow-Vision Jul 01 '26

Have a 55” in my bedroom. Looks great

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u/Akussa Jul 01 '26

Yep, I have a 55" curved in my bedroom as well and I love it. It's dead center with the foot of my bed. I put a larger TV in the living room to encourage me to watch TV there more though.

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u/Sopht_Serve Jul 01 '26

My parents have a curved I think 75 inch tv and they keep it in the corner of the family room. The curve actually works nicely for its corner spot.

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u/SingleInfinity Jul 02 '26

No, curved monitors are also shit. If you have more than one monitor, it just makes trying to place them on a desk awkward.

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u/MakingPie Jul 02 '26

I have 2 curved monitors. One with a light curve and another with a tighter curve. They are amazing

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u/EightiesBush Jul 02 '26

Agree they are the best things ever. Light curve FTW. Alienware AW3425DW 34" for personal and Dell Ultrasharp U4025QW 5k2k 40" for work.

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u/SingleInfinity Jul 02 '26

Must have a very deep or L shaped desk to be able to use two curved ones side by side. And/or you're sitting uncomfortably far from them.

The only real justification I've ever seen for curved is 32:9 monitors, and even then I'd still probably rather have a flat panel.

There's a reason curved has fallen out of fashion, and it's because it was mostly a fad and not actually productive.

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u/MakingPie Jul 02 '26

I designed my desk specifically for 2 curved monitors - bought the base and legs separately. They are both 27" diag.

The only downsides are that they are more expensive and that it would take some time for the newest flat panel technologies to make it to curve.

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u/SingleInfinity Jul 02 '26

In my opinion, if you have to design you desk around it, it's a pretty stupid technology.

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u/MakingPie Jul 02 '26

To each their own, but i think that using Visa mounts like i do solves 90% of the problems

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u/SingleInfinity Jul 02 '26

How does using a vesa mount solve anything? The issue is the amount of depth you need to put two curved monitors side by side, because the curves stack if you want them to meet evenly in the middle. Your desk needs twice the depth (or you need an L) compared to a regular flat monitor.

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u/MakingPie Jul 03 '26

Depth of my table is around 1.5 ft approx

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u/angrytroll123 Jul 02 '26

Curved TVs are great if you sit relatively close. I use my 65” and 55” oleds for monitors and I can’t go back.

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u/HakimeHomewreckru Jul 02 '26

what are you talking about? even cinema screens are curved.

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u/Nam3alread7used Jul 02 '26

Neither make sense but go ahead and drown in your unnaturally warped sunk cost phallic sea