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<p>Curved screens are about 2x the cost of non-curved screens. I think they’re way over-rated, mainly because they’re only curved along one axis.</p>
<p>If I were to buy something “curved”, I’d get a spherical curve, which nobody makes (yet).</p>
<p>A 55” TV as a monitor is equivalent to 4 x 27” HD monitors in a single panel. A truly awesome experience to behold!</p>
<p>A couple of years ago I got a Seiki 39” 4K TV on sale for around $350 and used it as a monitor with my MacBook Pro for quite a while. It does a great job. (I’d love to sell it if anybody is interested.)</p>
<p>My aging eyes don’t work well with things close-up, and a 39” 4K is roughly equivalent to 4 x 20” monitors. I can no longer look at 20” monitors for very long. Even 24” monitors are a challenge.</p>
<p>But I can look at 27” screens all day without fatigue. And I don’t even need my reading glasses much of the time.</p>
<p>So I recently upgraded to a mid-range 55” LG WebOS UJ6300 TV. Boy, what a nightmare it has been. (more on that shortly)</p>
<p>After I got it and had trouble making it work well, I dug around the interwebs for quite a while and managed to find a few blogs where people actually posted results of trying different 4K TVs as computer monitors.</p>
<p>Believe it or not, it seems like the low-end 4K TVs are far better suited for use as computer monitors than fancier ones.</p>
<p>My LG TV cost me around $850. I’ve seen them for $650 lately, but I would definitely NOT recommend LG TVs (or higher-end TVs) for use as a monitor.</p>
<p>The reason is … the fancier TVs have logic in them to “optimize” the picture and reduce flicker and artifacts and other weird stuff.</p>
<p>That is to say, they make motion videos (both HD and 4K) look AWESOME at 4K resolution. But computer monitors are anything BUT “motion videos”.</p>
<p>Besides that, this thing has so many frigging settings on it that it took me several sessions drilling through multiple settings and testing stuff before I got it to look halfway decent.</p>
<p>Just locking it in 4:4:4 mode is amazingly convoluted.</p>
<p>The screen on this LG is sharp as hell at 4K, but the colors are funky, and I’ve spent way too much time trying to fix them.</p>
<p>My suggestion is simple: go to Costco and buy the cheapest 4K 55” (or smaller if you prefer) TV that they have. I think it’s something like TLC brand with built-in Roku for around $425.</p>
<p>Try it out and if you don’t like it, take it back.</p>
<p>The Samsung 6300 is highly rated as a monitor as well, but I think it’s no longer being sold.</p>
<p>Do NOT get an LG TV for use as a monitor. However, if you want to watch movies on it in your living room, then it’s an EXCELLENT choice.</p>
<p>FWIW, there are 4K monitors now that are 27” and smaller. I might have been able to see them 15 years ago, but when your eyes start to “age-out”, it’s a lost cause.</p>
<p>I <strong>LOVE</strong> the real estate that a 4K display offers, and having the equivalent of 4 x 27” HD screens on one panel is perfect for my eyes today.</p>
<p>Yes, the edges are a few inches further away than the center, but my eyesight is fine for anything more than about 4’ away. So a curved screen would be of no particular benefit to me.</p>
<p>(Think of your typical desktop — do you need it to be curved to have stuff spread out? No! You simply grab what you need and pull it in front of you.)</p>
<p>-David Schwartz</p>
<blockquote><p>On Nov 14, 2017, at 2:11 PM, der.hans <PLUGd@LuftHans.com> wrote:</p>
<p>moin moin,</p>
<p>I'm considering a wide, curved 4k monitor.</p>
<p>I'll be connecting to an HDMI port.</p>
<p>I'm currently using a 4k TV with text display issues. It was the best option at the time, but my eyes really, really want a better text display. I'm also finding that a wide flat display is less than ideal, hence the desire for curved.</p>
<p>Any recommendations for specific monitors? Places of acquisition?</p>
<p>I normally ignore black Friday sales, but this year many of them appear to be black November sales. That works better for me, if I'm going to change I need to do so before Thanksgiving as that's when silly season hits full swing for $dayjob.</p>
<p>ciao,</p>
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