Why curved TVs failed but curved gaming monitors thrived

Curved TVs walked so curved gaming monitors could run. Chris Farina/Getty Images Much like 3D sets, curved TVs at one point seemed like they were everywhere. Throughout the 2010s, many TV makers tried to market curved TVs as a more immersive way of viewing your new flat screen set. And simply put, they also looked pretty cool, especially if they were replacing a clunky first-gen LCD. But by 2020, even Samsung, the last holdout for curved TVs, gave up on the idea. Aside from a few concepts that will likely never reach production, curved TVs are effectively dead. Instead, the dream of that technology lives on in gaming monitors, which offer more extreme curved angles than we've ever seen on televisions. So what went wrong with curved TVs? There's an obvious short answer, and a few more compl