Monday, April 11th 2016
Samsung Curved Monitor Sales Pass 1 Million Units
Samsung Electronics announced today that it has sold more than one million curved monitor products worldwide. The global display provider introduced its first curved LED monitor - the 27-inch, 4000R (curvature radius of 4,000 mm) SD590C model - in September 2014, and since has expanded its line-up to include several additional curved monitors. As a result, Samsung currently accounts for more than 85 percent of all global curved monitor sales (Source: International Data Corporation (IDC), 2015 Q4 worldwide sales results for 15"~34" curved monitors).
Designed to match the natural shape of the human eye, Samsung's curved monitors feature uniform center-to-edge viewing distances to create a more comfortable and immersive viewing experience conducive to long-term use. Combined with extra-wide viewing angles and enhanced contrast ratios, these curved displays are ideal for gamers and at-home entertainment users seeking realistic, distraction-free picture quality. As a result, Samsung has capitalized on growing demand from these audiences (many of whom employ several monitors during game play or content viewing)."Since the launch of our first curved monitor in 2014, we've seen this technology evolve to become an industry standard that gaming and entertainment viewers expect," said Seog-gi Kim, Senior Vice President, Visual Display Business, Samsung Electronics. "As curved monitors continue to grow in popularity, we welcome the challenge of further advancing our displays' design and capabilities to drive new levels of viewer engagement and comfort. We are happy to have reached one million sales for our curved monitors so far, and we look forward to delivering new curved technology innovation in the coming years."
Samsung's curved monitor design refinement includes the introduction of a sharper curve with each new model while maintaining a consistently sleek and stylish presentation. In January 2015, Samsung released its second curved monitor, the 34-inch SE790C, featuring 3000R curvature. The company's latest curved offerings - the CF591 (27-inch model) and CF390 (23.5- and 27-inch models) - further expand visual possibilities with an industry-leading 1800R composition.
Designed to match the natural shape of the human eye, Samsung's curved monitors feature uniform center-to-edge viewing distances to create a more comfortable and immersive viewing experience conducive to long-term use. Combined with extra-wide viewing angles and enhanced contrast ratios, these curved displays are ideal for gamers and at-home entertainment users seeking realistic, distraction-free picture quality. As a result, Samsung has capitalized on growing demand from these audiences (many of whom employ several monitors during game play or content viewing)."Since the launch of our first curved monitor in 2014, we've seen this technology evolve to become an industry standard that gaming and entertainment viewers expect," said Seog-gi Kim, Senior Vice President, Visual Display Business, Samsung Electronics. "As curved monitors continue to grow in popularity, we welcome the challenge of further advancing our displays' design and capabilities to drive new levels of viewer engagement and comfort. We are happy to have reached one million sales for our curved monitors so far, and we look forward to delivering new curved technology innovation in the coming years."
Samsung's curved monitor design refinement includes the introduction of a sharper curve with each new model while maintaining a consistently sleek and stylish presentation. In January 2015, Samsung released its second curved monitor, the 34-inch SE790C, featuring 3000R curvature. The company's latest curved offerings - the CF591 (27-inch model) and CF390 (23.5- and 27-inch models) - further expand visual possibilities with an industry-leading 1800R composition.
10 Comments on Samsung Curved Monitor Sales Pass 1 Million Units
On the optimistic side, good for Samsung, they really needed those sales. And on the other hand, good for the consumer, how the hell could they enjoy movies with a flat monitor?? Now this extra viewing quality and experience is really gonna cool, really worth it.
Sarcasm aside... Emm... good for the economy... emm...
Will wait for HDR to go mainstream, thanks to AMD, it might be soon enough.
PS
Oh, and slim arcade machine is what I plan to do with my old monitor.
But we do seem to slowly get past the curved HDTV panels. Slowly. Please die faster.
I live in Denmark and we have separate bins for most recyclables...and a lot of that million gets passed down to younger/older/financially challenged family members and friends.
I don't know any figures on this, but I reckon it's 'only' about a third that gets thrown out.
A lot of them forgot to tell people that even though watching TV though Cable would have the display working at the 1920x1080 were most other ports only worked 720P, if you wanted one that could display 1080P you had to look out for the Full HDTV marking.
looks kinda cool
Also weirdly enough I haven't thrown away yet a single LCD display. The old "main display" usually moves to side for extra display when I buy a new and more advanced main.