For years, flat-screen monitors have been the go-to option ... When talking about TVs, a curved one can be too difficult for the eyes to get used to, and the benefits are less evident.

A display screen that is slightly curved horizontally ... if viewers were not sitting dead center. In addition, curved TVs do not hang flat against the wall, which present a decorating issue.

(1) A non-curved screen on a TV. Contrast with curved screen. See flat screen. (2) A reference to TVs when LCD screens were replacing CRTs starting in the late 1990s and early 2000s. See flat screen.