Rounded Corners PC Screens

[NoaLag]

Hey everyone,
I've seen this concept a few times lately, I already thought of something like this myself and now I'm seing it pop around the net. Tell me what you guys think about rounded corners on PC screens. It's everywhere on smartphones nowadays and as a big fan of this trend I would like to see it on PCs aswell. Personally I think it looks gorgeous!! I know it would be complicated for compatability between apps and all but it's still really cool. So. What do you think?

 

Weirdly enough I only found apple related concepts. I'm working on my own concept tho  (I know the first one is an Ipad, just try to think of it as a monitor plugged into a windows pc or smth)

[MartinKweh]

as a pc gamer, not a fan of it since it literally shaves off that corner which gives a small bit of FOV.

[SolarNova]

rounded corners are not new. CRTs had rounded corners due to the way they were made.

 

the reason you dont see them in LCD's often is that its actually more work to make a rounded corner panel than to just leave them as is.

 

if u want rounded corners just make ur own bezels and cover the corner.

[TomvanWijnen]

I see no added benefit to rounding the corners off. On my phone I also prefer square corners rather than round corners. It looks more natural and it increases the screen real estate without looking weird (like a notch).

[Lenovo1984]

No thanks. It looks a lot worse to me on a display larger than a phone, The iPad Pro is alright, but I don't like the corners of my display being chopped off. 

[Glenwing]

I sure hope it doesn't spread to desktop monitors too...

[Ringthane]

You'd have to rework all the panels, not just monitors - TVs and such would have to be redone as well.  I don't think anyone's really going to advocate for such a big change in the way these things are manufactured without real motivation (real return on investment, in other words).  

[NoaLag]

A lot of you answered that it doesn't add any benefit. I know, it's just for looks. I like this look. Also cutting the corners changes almost nothing to the screen real estate (same for FOV). @Glenwing
Anyway I seem to be the only one to like this look x)
@Ringthane I'm not talking about every device on the market, obviously that would be sooo complicated. But for companies like apple who make their own software AND hardware don't you think it would be easier to make a change like that?

[RAS_3885]

I already get the corners of some content cut off on my phone since it has rounded screen corners.  Never functionality breaking, but always looks odd when it happens.  It's a compromise that doesn't need to exist for the sake of aesthetics.

[Kenblaji]

You might try and preview the look of this with an easy to execute little program of 16 KB from the Github link below, if you don't like it just stop it from the task manager and that's it.

 

https://github.com/BeezBeez/Windows-RoundedScreen/releases/tag/1.0-Beta

 

It could be nice if the screen curve radius were that of a Pixel Phone, I use a SAMSUNG GALAXY TAB S5E, it has rounded corners (less rounded than an IPAD) and I love it, it has a "PC mode" called DEX and with mouse and keyboard you get to have a super Amoled rounded PC like device way nicer than an Ipad in aesthethics (at least for me)... maybe for PC it could work.