Curved TVs walked so curved gaming monitors could run. Throughout the 2010s, many TV makers tried to market curved TVs as a more immersive way of viewing your new flat screen set. But by 2020, even Samsung, the last holdout for curved TVs, gave up on the idea. Aside from a few concepts that will likely never reach production, curved TVs are effectively dead.

Curved TVs weren't that immersive. The notion of gaining immersion with large curved screens isn't anything new. But there's a big difference between those massive theaters and a 55- to 65-inch flat panel in your living room, which is likely six to ten feet away from your couch. Unless you were lucky enough to have a 78-inch curved set and sat fairly close, it was simply hard to replicate the sense of immersion from theaters.

Curved LCD TVs had a limited sweet spot. Even if you were completely satisfied by your curved set, there's a good chance your friends and family weren't. Curved LCDs had a sweet spot directly in the middle of their viewing angle, but once you drifted away from that, you instantly lost contrast and color saturation.

Curved sets were also hard to make and mount. Having a curved TV where the corners stick out, almost up to 6 inches with some of these manufacturers, that was pretty significant when you're thinking about putting it above a mantle. Curved gaming monitors avoid all of these issues since they're usually meant for a single viewer.