Samsung Announces Pricing, Availability For New Line Of Curved Monitors

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Curved screens under 27" seem like a gimmick...
Isn't the idea to get immersed or surrounded by the view? A single 23.6" screen can't do that by itself. Am I missing something?
 
Curved at any size is a gimmick. It corrupts the geometry of content that is meant for a flat screen. A content creator would need to know the specific curvature and the exact size of the screen and how far your eyes are from the screen, then he would know the exact correct perspective to create. If that ever happens, I'd be interested to see it.
 
Thank you for the writeup, but it would be extremely helpful to have a table for this sort of article, even if just for the differences. Four monitors, compared by size, price, brightness, contrast, and features. Reading seven paragraphs of writeup makes it hard to really get a feel for which is which, particularly with the only identifier being such ugly model numbers.
 
Agree with Flayer.

Also, agree with Chico - 1080? Meh my 980s would crush this screen into dust! Bring on 1440 and beyond!
 
$299.99 for 4ms 1080p 24inh with limited connections, sounds like a overpriced gimmick. There are plenty of higher quality less expensive monitors out to make you think...Why should I buy one of these.
 
Curved at any size is a gimmick. It corrupts the geometry of content that is meant for a flat screen. A content creator would need to know the specific curvature and the exact size of the screen and how far your eyes are from the screen.
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What a load of rubbish. Seriously.
 
1080? Meh my 980s would crush this screen into dust! Bring on 1440 and beyond!
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Seriously? It still takes a hefty video card (or two) to run 1440p resolution on modern games at 60+ fps with high quality settings. Besides the fact that 1440p monitors are still not dirt cheap except the no-frills Korean brands. It will be many years before 1440p is main stream and replaces 1080p as main stream (read: in every household).
 
One curved monitor would probably not be worth it at these marked up prices, but if they were the same cost as their no curved counterparts then there would be a real demand for those who set up 3 monitors. One 27" curved wouldn't do much for imersiveness but 3 of them... Also a lot of games alow you to adjust the FOV making the distortion not a worry. This is for gamers at least not talking about your media buffs.
 
1080? Meh my 980s would crush this screen into dust! Bring on 1440 and beyond!
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Seriously? It still takes a hefty video card (or two) to run 1440p resolution on modern games at 60+ fps with high quality settings. Besides the fact that 1440p monitors are still not dirt cheap except the no-frills Korean brands. It will be many years before 1440p is main stream and replaces 1080p as main stream (read: in every household).
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Considering it only takes an R9 280X or GTX 780 (note: singular) to run Metro Last Light, Far Cry 3, etc. at 60fps at "high quality settings," I think a single 980 could happily hum along at 1440p, let alone his dual 980s.

Now, you are right about 1080p. You can still buy 768p monitors, so 1080p is going to be the norm for a few years yet.
 
1080p is not going to go anytime soon most computer's arnt used for gaming and other then for games there isn't 1440p content they don't make movies at this res and most users don't have GPUs that can game at 1440 hell most will struggle to run 1080p without drooping the settings
 
1080p is just for for my 23 inch screen, I'm not sure I'd really see any benefits if I'd buy a 4K one instead.

The thing is movies are in 1080p and I really don't want to spend that much on a graphics card for a 4K monitor so I'll stick with this one for next couple of years.

As for curved screens I couldn't care less, I see no benefit in these. What I would like to see is OLED screens but it doesn't seem there's any interest in pushing these.
 
1080p is not going to go anytime soon most computer's arnt used for gaming and other then for games there isn't 1440p content they don't make movies at this res and most users don't have GPUs that can game at 1440 hell most will struggle to run 1080p without drooping the settings
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1080p is not going to go anytime soon most computer's arnt used for gaming and other then for games there isn't 1440p content they don't make movies at this res and most users don't have GPUs that can game at 1440 hell most will struggle to run 1080p without drooping the settings
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1080p is not going to go anytime soon most computer's arnt used for gaming and other then for games there isn't 1440p content they don't make movies at this res and most users don't have GPUs that can game at 1440 hell most will struggle to run 1080p without drooping the settings
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1080p is not going to go anytime soon most computer's arnt used for gaming and other then for games there isn't 1440p content they don't make movies at this res and most users don't have GPUs that can game at 1440 hell most will struggle to run 1080p without drooping the settings
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For users that want multi screens 1080 is the right choice because a wide choice of affordable graphics cards can handle that.
The new 4GB 960 cards might be a good choice.
When you aren't gaming 1080 is a preferred res for docs and spreadsheets.
Futzing with zooming and font size settings even with Win 8 adjustments available is not there yet for mainstream users on high res monitors.

I vote for OLED too.
 
"All of these monitors have a resolution of 1920 x 1080"

Insert No Cat pic here. Especially at 31.5 inches. Monitors coming out in 2015 need to be at least 1440 as others have said.
 
so a 1920x1080 31.5" monitor is 600 dollars. That really a terrible deal. You can get a very nice 27" 2560x1440 monitor for even less than 600. And can almost get a 144hz 27" 1440p asus ROG panel.
 


1080P is awful for documents and spreadsheets, what are you talking about? Both of those benefit hugely from vertical screen space, which is something 1080P is particularly anemic on. 1080P is only perfect for one thing, watching 1080P cinematic video, for everything else it's bottom of the barrel. The only reason it took over the monitor market from 4:3 and 16:10 is because TV manufacturing made it cheaper to produce than similar 1200P models. Luckily the new sets pull off their 16:9 ratio by having a ton of pixels, so this issue is pretty much gone on 1440P and 4K displays.
 
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