Doing an experiment - flat vs curved monitors

[Andreas Mertens]

I bought a Samsung 46" TV quad density (3840x2160). I find the resolution is excellent, though I did change the scale out to 225%

[Gary R Wheeler]

I lost my right eye a couple of years ago, and the surviving left eye isn't great. My monitor at the time was a fairly ordinary 20" flat panel. I quickly realized that pixels were just too small and text was fuzzy, even scaled up. I looked at a lot of monitors, both curved and flat. For me and my vision, a curved monitor would be great for video and movies, but not good for text and programming. This is especially true since most of my work is creating UI's. I bought a 24" flat panel.

Software Zen: delete this;

[Paul Sanders the other one]

Well look. Since the earth is flat, monitors should be flat, right? 😁

Paul Sanders. Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short - Henry David Thoreau Some of my best work is in the undo buffer.

[Paul Sanders the other one]

Well look. Since the earth is flat, monitors should be flat, right? 😁

Paul Sanders. If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter - Blaise Pascal. Some of my best work is in the undo buffer.

[Vaso Elias]

I have got 4k 32" curved screen (link below) and I am happy with it. It took some time to adjust my eyes. Philips 328E1CA - 32 inch Curved 4K Monitor, 60Hz, 4ms, VA, Speakers, Flicker Free, Adaptive Sync (3840 x 2160 @ 60 Hz, 250 cd/m², 4 ms, HDMI2.0 / DP1.2) : Amazon.co.uk: Computers & Accessories[^]

[Ric W 14981652]

The company recently gave the CAD engineers new HP ZBook 15 laptops with 4k screens. My thought was

(15.6" + 4k) = like why?

But I have to say the screens are amazing. They seem not only to reduce eye strain, they make you want to gaze at them. Their default text size is 225% btw, so that must be a known 4k thing. Us coders were only given standard HD, but my next monitor will be 4k. Bio: I am in my late 50's and wear glasses for reading and computer work.

[Stepan Hakobyan]

I'm 1.5 year on 34" 1000R curved monitor, and it is great. Still, I'm only 36.

[BDieser]

I will be curious as to what you come up with. I am a similar age to you. At home, I have curved monitors and at work I have flat. The flat monitors at work always look bowed out to me. Freaks me out.

[gervacleto]

Two 24" curved Samsung side by side they work like a charm. No issues.

[johnjohnsch]

I've had the same arrangement for about 3 months and I'm pretty happy. I was lucky that I could buy the same model again after more than a year so they match. They are just FHD; if they were any more than 24 inch, the pixels would be too big.

[Is_VYFHD_in_use]

Too soon.

[jochance]

Supposedly, the curve means less eye strain because there aren't as many changes to focal length. Looking left/right/center the screen stays closer to the same distance from your eyeball. I'm not sure it matters with the small one I bought for work. I use one curved and one flat in the typical side by side setup. I don't notice a difference working more on one than the other. The gargantuan one I have for personal use is a G9. If those ever get cheap enough I will definitely buy two and stack them vertically for ultimate home office setup. Maybe it can roll into the work setup as a hand-me-down after a couple generations present a really attractive personal use replacement.

[jsrjsr]

I have a 49" 4K flat monitor that I use when I work from home. I'm starting to think that I would like a curved screen -- the left and right edges are farther away than the center. Not sure if it would make a difference on a smaller monitor.

[DanW52]

I've been waiting till the radius got smaller! What brand and model did you get?

[Stepan Hakobyan]

It is MSI Artymis.