The physics, economics, and market reality of curved monitors
For 70 years, the display industry had one engineering religion: flatness. When LCD panels took over from cathode‑ray tubes in the early 2000s, they quietly ended the era of curved screens—a shape dictated not by design, but by the physics of vacuum‑tube displays. The industry declared victory
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For 70 years, the display industry had one engineering religion: flatness. When LCD panels took over from cathode‑ray tubes in the early 2000s, they quietly ended the era of curved screens—a shape dictated not by design, but by the physics of vacuum‑tube displays. The indus