Curved Monitors: Opinions
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I can't move the monitor back for two reasons: not enough space, and my eyesight is poor so if I do I won't be able to see anything. Definetely not good. Moving back my chair would completely annihilate my back - my workstation is not ergonomic in any aspect, the chair is 10-15 years old and abused and so on... so I try enlarging the characters on screen. Also the old monitor had a nifty feature that allowed to vary the thickness of the lines drawn on screen, this one has not. I have to get used to it, but long sessions leave me almost blind for a while.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
If you're a contractor at home, invest in yourself. If it's as an employee, you might somehow break it to your boss that you'd be more productive if you were more comfortable. You problem clearly isn't just the monitor. Figure out what would fix things and present to him (or go on a buying spree).
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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If you're a contractor at home, invest in yourself. If it's as an employee, you might somehow break it to your boss that you'd be more productive if you were more comfortable. You problem clearly isn't just the monitor. Figure out what would fix things and present to him (or go on a buying spree).
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
W∴ Balboos wrote:
If it's as an employee, you might somehow break it to your boss that you'd be more productive if you were more comfortable.
So they sack me to get another person. Literally in this Company passed through a lot of people that went away and remained only the Fantozzi, the meek who accept anything. I'm already looking for other companies of course... Also, when I'll really want to have something I can simply call 3-4 sick times in a row for backache / headache, this would automatically trigger both an investigation and a compensation process for deliberately provoking a cronic health disturb.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
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So I keep getting offers from my favorite on-line vendors for extra wide curved screen monitors. The prices are fiercely higher than if they were not curved. I'm of the opinion that curved monitors are an items whose time has not yet come. It's just a sales hype to get some extra coins from the early adopters.* Opine and Rant as you see fit. * The first ones to get Win8, too . . .
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
I surprised no one seems to be speaking from experience of actually using a curved extra wide monitor. I have an LG 34" IPS Curved UltraWide monitor that I've been using for a couple of months now and I have to say I am very happy with it. When sitting at the monitor, you can't see the curve, but it does seem to be slightly easier to see the corners. Of course, it could be in my head too. The ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio is also very nice. I like the factor that although it's wide, it's not tall, so I don't find myself getting a crook in my neck looking up to the top of the screen. Just my two cents.
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I surprised no one seems to be speaking from experience of actually using a curved extra wide monitor. I have an LG 34" IPS Curved UltraWide monitor that I've been using for a couple of months now and I have to say I am very happy with it. When sitting at the monitor, you can't see the curve, but it does seem to be slightly easier to see the corners. Of course, it could be in my head too. The ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio is also very nice. I like the factor that although it's wide, it's not tall, so I don't find myself getting a crook in my neck looking up to the top of the screen. Just my two cents.
You like the extra wide format? I'm the opposite. I first experienced it on a laptop. Great for movies, but I needed it for work. I had the choice of only seeing a relatively few lines of code/text with a readable font or looking at a whole page that was too small to read. I've gotten used to what are now the regular aspect ratio monitors, 16:9, but for working I found the old-format (4:3) even better. Also - to make up for the deficit, above, one needs to get a very large monitor, indeed, and thus pay a premium and lose a lot of physical real-world territory to accommodate its excess bulk. But, I can certainly accept that different work habit will optimize at different points.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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I surprised no one seems to be speaking from experience of actually using a curved extra wide monitor. I have an LG 34" IPS Curved UltraWide monitor that I've been using for a couple of months now and I have to say I am very happy with it. When sitting at the monitor, you can't see the curve, but it does seem to be slightly easier to see the corners. Of course, it could be in my head too. The ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio is also very nice. I like the factor that although it's wide, it's not tall, so I don't find myself getting a crook in my neck looking up to the top of the screen. Just my two cents.
I use a pair of 24" widescreen monitors and have them angled where the monitors meet. Otherwise the far corners are further away than the centre of the "screen". I guess a curved 48" or 54" monitor would achieve the same result.
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You like the extra wide format? I'm the opposite. I first experienced it on a laptop. Great for movies, but I needed it for work. I had the choice of only seeing a relatively few lines of code/text with a readable font or looking at a whole page that was too small to read. I've gotten used to what are now the regular aspect ratio monitors, 16:9, but for working I found the old-format (4:3) even better. Also - to make up for the deficit, above, one needs to get a very large monitor, indeed, and thus pay a premium and lose a lot of physical real-world territory to accommodate its excess bulk. But, I can certainly accept that different work habit will optimize at different points.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
I do the majority of coding in VS and I've found a couple of good uses for the wide format. It lets me not worry about the sizing of the left and right panes in Visual Studio. Mainly, the Solution Explorer panel and the Tools panel. Those panels can creep into the central panel and leave you feeling like you are coding on a post it note. Another use is when pinning each app to one half of the screen, it's like having 2 4:3 screens side by side (I didn't figure out if it actually works out to 4:3 on each half). So, browser in one side, Visual Studio in the other. It works pretty well for me. You are correct in that the monitor probably cost way more than 2 4:3 monitors, but overall there is less clutter (one set of cables).
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I use a pair of 24" widescreen monitors and have them angled where the monitors meet. Otherwise the far corners are further away than the centre of the "screen". I guess a curved 48" or 54" monitor would achieve the same result.
Unfortunately, 34" is the only size in computer monitors and it's about 32" wide. I would love it if they made on 48" wide (Ultra Ultra Wide). I've considered getting a second monitor, but it would take up 64" and that is a lot of desktop space. It also be nice if they increased the rate of the curve on a monitor that large, going for the wrap around effect.
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So I keep getting offers from my favorite on-line vendors for extra wide curved screen monitors. The prices are fiercely higher than if they were not curved. I'm of the opinion that curved monitors are an items whose time has not yet come. It's just a sales hype to get some extra coins from the early adopters.* Opine and Rant as you see fit. * The first ones to get Win8, too . . .
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
I have a 34" flat one at work and a 34" curved one at home. I don't know how to describe it very well, but the curved one seems easier to see. On the flat one I have to let my eyes refocus more when I'm going to the far edges and I don't notice it nearly as much on my one at home. It isn't saving me seconds, but I think it might save me some eye fatigue. I'm not sure though.
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I surprised no one seems to be speaking from experience of actually using a curved extra wide monitor. I have an LG 34" IPS Curved UltraWide monitor that I've been using for a couple of months now and I have to say I am very happy with it. When sitting at the monitor, you can't see the curve, but it does seem to be slightly easier to see the corners. Of course, it could be in my head too. The ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio is also very nice. I like the factor that although it's wide, it's not tall, so I don't find myself getting a crook in my neck looking up to the top of the screen. Just my two cents.
I have the Dell version of that one at home and I'm very happy with it. The work on is the flat 34" LG. Originally at work I had two pretty crappy monitors and a huge bezel between them. The UW gave up maybe a few pixels on the sides (as I said crappy), but the lack of bezel just makes it so easy to use. Of course, the prior ones weren't IPS and the color accuracy was absolutely terrible so when writing proposals and putting in graphs or pictures I had no clue how they would look in print until I got someone to print it on a nice printer. I think you're right about the aspect ratio. I think that the human eye is more suited to looking at things left and right instead of up and down so it makes sense. It does mean that I put my start bar on the left though.
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Unfortunately, 34" is the only size in computer monitors and it's about 32" wide. I would love it if they made on 48" wide (Ultra Ultra Wide). I've considered getting a second monitor, but it would take up 64" and that is a lot of desktop space. It also be nice if they increased the rate of the curve on a monitor that large, going for the wrap around effect.
Yes; I'm sure eventually we'll get to the size we want. Until then, 34" is indeed about as good as it gets.