Upgrading from twin HD displays. Anyone using curved ultra wide 21:9 monitor?

[Jeff Kirkland]

I have a friend who uses one and my personal experience is limited to an afternoon of helping him with an edit but, for me at least, it only took a few minutes to get used to the curve. Another friend tried it and hated it. He couldn’t even say exactly why – just something about the curved screen bothered him.

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[Doug Suiter]

I have a flat ultra wide and it’s fabulous to have such horizontal space along a timeline. Shortly after I bought it the curved version came out. It occurred to me that the curve would be nice in that in the extreme left and right on the screen is far from your eyes and the small icons and menu options may be easier to see on a curved screen. Just something you may want to consider if you haven’t already.

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[Les Wilson]

Exactly. I find with my Cinema HD “twins”, I’ve not treated them equal and favored the left one. The second one becomes something I see at a distance and “secondary” or lean/shush over to see. But the keyboard stays in front of the left one. I think that’s the nature of twinsies due to the bezels in the middle.

I felt I’d be losing a lot of productivity space dropping down to a 34″ ultrawide flat. But last year’s crop of displays brought curved Ultra-wide 3880 x 1600 that are 38″ and look like the next best thing to the twins. They all use panels from LG but Dell seems to have focussed on improving color accuracy and brightness while the others on gaming and speakers. This is what I’m seeing right now:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/11653/dells-ultrasharp-u3818dw-available-curved-3840×1600

[Bret Williams]

I like my LG

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[Les Wilson]

Whoa. What model is that? It looks flat and bigger than 38″.

[Bret Williams]

Looks pretty curved to me. It’s a 34” and yes it’s curved. The curve is easy to get used to. It’s so wide I figure anything helps. This model has TB2 pass through. So it goes to the screen, then the raid, then the BMD device.

Biggest downside vs two monitors is that the bin/browser can’t be full height when dealing with one screen. When I had two screens one was dedicated to the browser like in the pic where it’s on my laptop. i usually run with the laptop closed (or dedicated to YouTube TV).

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[Jeremy Garchow]

I have the same monitor as Brett with TB2.

After it I bought it, a 38” became available. My only regret is I didn’t get the 38”.

The curve does not bother me at all, the flat version bothered me because it was almost too wide at a close distance. I used to have two monitors that positioned in a slight ‘V’ shape. I like the single bigger monitor (with almost the same pixel count) much better.

I have no “alignment” issues with graphics/straight lines. It’s a really nice monitor and everyone that comes to the suite is immediately curious about it and they all say they like it. It’s a good piece of kit.

[Les Wilson]

Good to know. Glad to hear about the experience, Thanks. My frustration with FCP is a major thing driving one large screen for me. It’s wasteful of space when on the twin and everything else is cramped. Wish FCP allowed more control over it’s windows. I ordered the Dell 38″ ultrawide curve in spite of the idiotic downward facing ports. FOrtunately there’s two USB on the edge.

[Bret Williams]

My LG just looks big from the camera angle btw. Before I had the 27” iMac and a Dell 21.5” As my bin monitor. Both the dell and this LG have the idiotic downward ports as well. The LG has some nice sounding speakers in it. similar to an iMac.

38” would be nice as would retina. I’d keep to curved

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[Eric Santiago]

Brett what CPU are you using with that?
My Dual Cinema 30s are starting to look tired and will need something soon.
I am currently running a nMP D700.