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I don't like curved displays

The vast majority of media uses rectilinear lenses, where straight lines in 3D remain straight in a 2D image:

rectilinear lens diagram

Each light ray lands on a flat rectangle that lies between the viewpoint and the light source, so viewing the image on a flat screen looks exactly the same as how it originally appeared. A curved screen won't do that — straight lines are no longer straight!