Curved or flat ???

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After a bit of advice from those that have been through the process of buying a new TV recently.

I thought I had made my mind up on a flat screen TV rather than one of the new curved ones - mainly due to not sitting directly in front of the TV, more at slight angles and I'm not sure curved TVs aren't a bit of a fad.

Speaking with someone this afternoon, he was saying that I should go for a curved screen as they're better technology and a better view - he then went into say that Samsung TVs are the best you can buy at the moment, closely followed by Sony.

I am going to go and have a look at some over the weekend, and I'm happy and open minded as to what I get, but I'm not sure if I'm being fed a lot of ...

Anyone been through the process and what / why did you choose ???

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I read somewhere that the curved TVs are easier to make and that its just a great marketing gimmick that has sold them as the next best thing
 
I've got the same dilemma. TV will go in the corner of a room and two sofas sit at right angles so everyone will be approx 45 degrees to the TV. I want a 4K HDR panel from Samsung but it looks like they're on curved TV only.
 
At the moment would stick with flat TV,as Neil said they are not great at an angle,and again i would stay away from 4K because the full specs for how 4K is going to be deliver across all formats has still not being worked out :)
 
My director always picks the latest tech, but is deeply disappointed with his curved TV.
He's relegating it to a guest room and replacing with flat.
 
I think curved screens use some sort of software to adjust the picture for the screen shape & this additional process can degrade the picture. I'd only buy a flat screen.
 
Flat here...The 4K curved look great in the store BUT they are being fed with a video stream that has been designed to make them look amazing! and they do! however if you are looking at normal SD TV and some HD or all HD TV then they are ....ahead of their time. imho and I would stay with LED Flat screen for the next 4/5 years....

Samsung are doing some nice panels - I would also recommend the Amazon Fire stick too very happy with its speed and price and whats on offer! - you need to be a Prime customer to get all the free Prime films and whatnot...
 
neil_g said:
thing is with curved is they only work straight on so in a corner of a room not great.
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Thanks Neil, This is what I was thinking originally, but he said completely the opposite...
 
omens said:
I've got the same dilemma. TV will go in the corner of a room and two sofas sit at right angles so everyone will be approx 45 degrees to the TV. I want a 4K HDR panel from Samsung but it looks like they're on curved TV only.
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Sounds pretty much the same set up as us - why is there so much choice :runaway:
 
simonblue said:
At the moment would stick with flat TV,as Neil said they are not great at an angle,and again i would stay away from 4K because the full specs for how 4K is going to be deliver across all formats has still not being worked out :)
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Thanks Simon, what do you mean re the 4K going to be delivered across all formats ?
 
viv1969 said:
My director always picks the latest tech, but is deeply disappointed with his curved TV.
He's relegating it to a guest room and replacing with flat.
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Comfortably Numb said:
I think curved screens use some sort of software to adjust the picture for the screen shape & this additional process can degrade the picture. I'd only buy a flat screen.
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Cheers guys, certainly seems to be the opinion that flat is still the way to go, which was my original thought :)
 
LASTOLITE said:
Flat here...The 4K curved look great in the store BUT they are being fed with a video stream that has been designed to make them look amazing! and they do! however if you are looking at normal SD TV and some HD or all HD TV then they are ....ahead of their time. imho and I would stay with LED Flat screen for the next 4/5 years....

Samsung are doing some nice panels - I would also recommend the Amazon Fire stick too very happy with its speed and price and whats on offer! - you need to be a Prime customer to get all the free Prime films and whatnot...
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Thanks Bill, going to try to go to a local shop over the weekend and try to watch normal TV / might take DVD with me to see what they look like "normally"
 
andyred said:
Thanks Simon, what do you mean re the 4K going to be delivered across all formats ?
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In the future 4K content could come out in different format to watch it on,how its master may be not compatible with all of today 4K TV :)
 
simonblue said:
In the future 4K content could come out in different format to watch it on,how its master may be not compatible with all of today 4K TV :)
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Oh okay, certainly something to think about...

cheers
 
Depends on where you are seated and where the TV is going....

If in a bay window on a stand, maybe a curved.....But if on a wall, i would opt for a flat one.....

I recently bought one - it was flat :)
 
retrosi said:
Gadget show had a round up of curve vs flat and flat won.
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Cheers Simon

Will have a look at it if I can, but I think I'm heading towards a flat as I was originally thinking...
 
I would go flat too, but we're losing options once you get to a certain size they all seem to be curved. My next set will be oled once the price drops a little and the iron out some of the niggles.
 
ecoleman said:
Be aware that a curved screen will also accentuate any glare you may have on the screen such as from a window or table lamp
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Yes, was looking at our current TV this morning and think I may have more reflection / glare...

Cheers
 
rjbell said:
I would go flat too, but we're losing options once you get to a certain size they all seem to be curved. My next set will be oled once the price drops a little and the iron out some of the niggles.
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Looking around the 48-50" so at the moment still okay for choice...Not looked at the OLED screens though - another excuse to look :D
 
andyred said:
Looking around the 48-50" so at the moment still okay for choice...Not looked at the OLED screens though - another excuse to look :D
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Last time i looked there was only LG making them.
 
OLED will be a game changer IMHO, especially for large screens, as getting even lighting & true blacks is their current Achilles heel.
 
But curved tellies has been around for the best part of half a century. Granted it was of the convex type and were smaller. And not HD.

I'll go and get my coat.
 
Ian D J said:
But curved tellies has been around for the best part of half a century. Granted it was of the convex type and were smaller. And not HD.

I'll go and get my coat.
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:D:clap: Excellent - here you go :coat:
 
andyred said:
Cheers - will have a look at the review site...

Screen size - around the 48-50"
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ive recently bought their top rated tv the panasonic...cant fault it, great picture decent sound without a separate sound bar, went for flat as the shape of our room suited it better, plus i think they go on the wall better without looking daft
 
Brendan Mulachy said:
ive recently bought their top rated tv the panasonic...cant fault it, great picture decent sound without a separate sound bar, went for flat as the shape of our room suited it better, plus i think they go on the wall better without looking daft
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Not going on the wall, but yes, decided I'm sticking with flat - which model did you get Dave ?
 
Just for general info, I bought Samsung F6000 series, a couple of years ago, one of the 'better' in their range. One of the highlights, after picture quality, was that they were the only maker with all the main channel online players. The sound is pretty good, I bought a soundbar anyway but the difference wasn't huge, mainly more bass & surround, There is some occasional Dirty Screen Effect - I was concentrating on it at first, after lots of reasearch, but after a while I rarely noticed. Setting up makes a big difference. I mostly turned all the processing off, although there are some artefacts on fast moving sport, like F1 & Moto GP, that is fixed by raising Motion control up one level. Black levels are good & fairly even, but not plasma levels, & since they are all edge lit these days the lighting is slightly patchy. Again this is being quite picky & I really don't notice with 99.9% of veiwing.
 
andyred said:
Not going on the wall, but yes, decided I'm sticking with flat - which model did you get Dave ?
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good. Curved ones are pretty much an epic waste of money
 
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