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Yep, that concavity a characteristic of "real flat" monitor design. The glass at the front has a thickness, and that thickness is the same righ the way across the screen on a "real flat" CRT. Problem is that the optical thickness is different from your eyes' perspective since you look through the centre at a more-or-less "normal" angle, while there's quite a bit of slant at the corners and edges. There's three cures for that: use a wacky manufacturing technique to graduate the refractive index of the glass radially ovr the face of the screen; build a "lens" into the screen (the way the Dynaflat screen works); and, finally, just wait till your eyes accommodate themselves to the new reality. That's what happened to me with a flat Trinitron -- after a couple of weeks of using it all day every day, I couldn't see the wow or the wire support shadow lines unless I made a conscious effort to do so. The zero-glare part makes the adjustment easy.

Thanks, Stan. Again your encyclopaedic knowledge sets my mind at ease :)

The next time I plan to make a major electronics purchase, I'm going to save myself the grey hairs and mail you first ;)