Next month, it will be 10 years since the first mass-market curved OLED TV went on sale. While you may remember the phenomenon (which, would you believe, actually preceded that of the flat production-ready OLED TV still going strong today), it was a relatively short-lived one. It deserved to be back then, but I think, like a Beatles-obsessed Gen Z, the curved OLED TV was simply born in the wrong era. Its more rightful place? Today. Hear me out.
For the uninitiated, these curved OLED TVs were, well, OLED screens that gently curved at the sides like bananas do. Why? To make the TV-watching experience more immersive. The purpose of that wraparound screen design was to help draw people into the picture. Hey, if it worked for IMAX screens, it would work for TVs too, right?
