Feast your eyes on this.
CES is filled with wonderful products. Walking the show floor, it's very easy to get desensitized. You're seeing everything from cars, to PCs, to tablets. It's a complete overload at times. Still, there's always something to pull you out of your funk. Those stand out products that you just cannot ignore. Among them was Samsung's curved OLED TV. Aside from the fact that Samsung's booth is completely unmissable thanks to its size (Samsung County feels roughly like the size of Rhode Island), there were a ton of people at the booth. Many of them were there to gawk at Samsung's 55-inch OLED curved TV.
We fought our way through the crowds to get a look at this beautiful TV. The idea behind the curved design is to improve viewing angles as well as the general viewing experience by offering a panoramic effect. The fact that it's an OLED display, with deep blacks and bright, vivid colors, also doesn't hurt. Samsung had the TV safely stowed behind some ropes, refusing to let us look with our hands as well as our eyes. Still, we did get some pictures. Check them out below but try not to get too attached. Samsung didn't mention a release date or a price (heck, the company didn't actually talk about the exact size in any official capacity, either, but 55 inches is the number doing the rounds in the press room). Suffice to say, it will probably cost a boatload as well as your first born.
Wouldn't that only be true for people somewhat directly in front of it? If you are looking more from the side, the nearest side will be somewhat obscured by the curve, no?
If a video frame is captured from what is essentially a flat, rectangular image collector (typically the CCD?), then shouldn't that image be rendered on a flat, rectangular device to avoid distortion?
Not a fan of curved displays. No thank you.
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OLED doesn't use backlighting(such as edge-lit or full array) so in short, it won't have ghosting effects.
I'm fairly sure a curved screen is better than a flat screen as long as you're still inside the frustum created by the edges of the screen (the ideal viewing spot is the middle of the line where the planes meet).
That's probably why they made the curvature so small (so you have a wide frustum).
How much distortion do you ever see at the movie theatre? Because those screens have been curved for years now. It's not like its curved into a half-pipe here. It just has a slight curvature to help with viewing angles; and it does help, actually. Personally, I think it's a work of art!