Yes anything is possible with OLED but you will still need a breakout box to house all the tuners and connections. The other option is to have OLED's that retract into the base of the tv stand and that houses all the tuners, speakers etc.

LG are set to launch an OLED TV that can be either flat or automatically shifted to curved in the coming months.

The concepts I saw had as you suggest, but retracted upwards as per a projector screen.
They were apparently looking at ways to get that as thin as possible so it wouldn't be too noticeable. There was a nice idea, where the screen just came from a small covered slit in the ceiling, with all the tuners etc out of sight completely.
As you say the possibilities are endless once they crack the cost..

I have a curved TV.

It's a vintage Sobell CRT set from 1959

just because they can curve a tv doesnt mean they should. they spend all this time and money making them thin and then curve them so they then stick out to far when you want to wall mount them. hopefully its a fad and they stop making them

You must have a very small room then because a 65" tv curves out by about 2 inches at the most at the very edge of the screen. It really is minimal and on a panel only a cm or so thick to start with, is probably less than your current flat screen's width overall.

Also, the curve DOES add something to the picture / viewing experience. I've viewed them in person.

Emperors new clothes!

Well it certainly CHANGES the picture/viewing experience to new and different one. I suspect "new and different" is immediately equated to "better" in the minds of certain susceptible individuals. However to my mind its a stupid marketing gimmick, which has obvious drawbacks in terms of practicality.

Well that's what I thought until I saw it, and now I am convinced by the benefits.

I've seen them on 3 or 4 occasions now next to similar sized flat screens.

Said it elsewhere, I wouldn't pay extra for it. However, given the choice of flat or curved for the same price, curved everytime as it SLIGHTLY improves the immersive experience.

I keep thinking about the Odeon at Leicester Square - the largest cinema in the UK and my favorite.

I do think you see the whole screen area more easily.

what does that have to do with anything in this topic?

The screen is curved.....

I'm sure my gran has an old telly from the '70's with a lovely curved screen in the attic somewhere, I should fish it out should make a fortune what with the "retro" styling!

Grew up with curved screens woudn't want to go back.

yeah, the screen at the Odeon - Leicester Square is curved.

I think it's good if you are sitting right in the centre, as the the side area is 'pulled' in towards you. I don't think it would be good for video games though, as you may have to roll your eyes to see HOD information text.

But for grand landscape viewing or big blockbusters it's good.

the size is not even comparable to a consumer home TV though

But you can get a similar field of view with consumer TV's providing you sit at the recommended SMPTE viewing distance.

if we are comparing it to the odeon screen then you'd need to be sitting inches away from a consumer TV to even come close to a similar field of view.

So long as you use the same screen size/seating distance formula for both screens the field of vision will be the same, you don't have to sit closer to the smaller screen to get the same affect as the larger screen, for example....

Sitting 50" away from a 50" TV would give the same field of vision as sitting 30' away from a 30' cinema screen.

OK so lets do the maths then, see how it compares
how big is the Odeon screen and what is the optimal sitting distance for that.
then lets compare it to the average size of a consumer home curved TV and how far (or close) you would need to be sitting in front of it to achieve the same experience as if at the odeon.

The formula depicts the optimum distance - SMPTE 30 = x1.6 screen diagonal or screen width / 0.536.

The Empire at Leicester Square has a bigger screen, 65'7" diagonal.

Optimum seating distance would be 105'

Optimum seating distance for a 55" curved TV at home would be 7'3".

Field of vision would be the same from both optimum seating positions.

Apart from one is concave and the other is convex.

Curved screens have been around for ages and tested with gaming apart from up until now, it's tended to be 3 separate screens. Proven immersion factor though:

http://www.vortez.net/index.php?ct=a...n=file&id=6979

http://extreme.pcgameshardware.de/at...ng-3screen.jpg

You can see the difference when you look at a flat 3 monitor set up:

http://www.dsogaming.com/wp-content/...efinitysr3.jpg

hmmm, maybe it does improve gaming then.

It's certainly more useful than 3D.

Agreed. I've stood in John Lewis tv dept and watched a curved screen, and to my mind it did have an immersive effect where the edges of the picture disappeared and a sense of depth to the picture was apparent. With well-shot footage it conveyed an appearance of being a window into something greater beyond, as opposed to a flat view of a moving image.

Like others I wouldn't rush out & buy it tomorrow, but I wouldn't discount it, not without a proper viewing session and getting a better idea of how other things look on it, e.g. sport, panel shows, music etc. Carefully selected dreamy colourful demo footage is one thing, real world day to day viewing is what matters. When it works though it's very good.

Curved phone screens are next.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/...0IX0DG20141113

I thought the new iPhone already has a curved screen?

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