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Once upon a time, TV sets bulged like fishbowls around the cathode ray tubes that fired electrons at the glass screen. Later, Sony’s Trinitron all but eliminated the curve from top to bottom, but not side to side. Only with the switch to LCD did we get completely flat screens. And finally, the electronic display was perfected.
“The wraparound effect works rather nicely, but it’s just too expensive” Or was it? Some manufacturers are convinced we haven’t gone far enough, and want to carry on right through from convex to concave. New curved screens sweep forward at the sides, enveloping you in the picture. Or they would, if you were a Borrower. For normal-sized folk watching telly across a living room, it just…