Curved monitor for editing

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egproductions

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Went to turn on my monitor today and it wouldn't power up. I've been eyeing a new monitor recently anyway so now I have a good excuse to justify the purchase to my wife ;)

What are thoughts on the following monitor? Is curved a bad idea?

http://www.amazon.com/LG-Electronics-34-Inch-LED-Lit-34UC97-S/dp/B00OKSEWL6

I plan on doing photo editing and graphic design with this monitor. For video I plan on using the monitor for my timeline and having a second monitor for the actual output monitor (although I might use half the monitor for my output on occasion for projects that are more web based)

One concern is that when trying to gauge if lines are straight, it's going to throw me off.
 
I bought the Dell version a few months ago, and it's been the best productivity booster I've ever invested in. I've always been frustrated by not having enough desktop real estate to have, say, a script open next to FCP and instead having to hide one application to access another. Well, no more!

I had similar concerns about the curvature, but it hasn't been an issue. Maybe if you do architecture photography or something along those lines, having absolute straight lines might be important. Not sure. For me, the gentle curve isn't distorting anything.

What's great is that the pixel density is higher than a standard monitor. Not retina, but pretty good. And my 2012 Macbook Pro can drive it without issue.

The width of the monitor is perfect, but I do wish it had another inch or two in height.

Lastly, I believe the Dell version uses the same LG panel, but is about $100 cheaper at B&H. Dell has a great 3-year advance exchange warranty, and they do a decent factory calibration:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search?N=11112687&InitialSearch=yes&sts=pi

The LG and Dell differ in what ports they offer, and I think the LG is less adjustable.

Bottom line: Go for it!
 
Thanks guys. I ended up ordering the Samsung S34E790C. It's another 34" curved monitor, however, it's not IPS but rather VA which, from what I can read, isn't as sharp or as good from various angles, however, it has better blacks and better contrast ratio. It actually looks like a lot of company's make a similiar 34" curved (Dell, LG, Samsung, HP, Asus, Acer, etc.) and the main difference between them is wether they are a VA or IPS monitor (Samsung and HP are VA).
 
That pretty much tells you the HP buys from Samsung, and the rest are LG.

Odd aside, I've been working on a Lenovo laptop the last couple of days, the bottom of the case says Samsung in big letters on the inside, so even Lenovo is having other companies build parts (or all) of their hardware.
 
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