How-To Geek - 📺Why Curved TVs Flopped

Sound travels slowest in gases (air), faster in liquids, and faster still in solids. Sound waves travel approximately 4.3 times faster in water than air and approximately 15 times faster when passing through iron as opposed to air.

Curved monitors have been popular for years. So why did curved televisions fail to take off in the same way? They promised immersive viewing that was supposed to parallel movie theaters. And with the span of time between when a movie debuts in theaters and is available to stream at home ever-shrinking, it seems like curved TVs should have had their moment.

But that moment never came. And it never will. See why, and what has kept curved televisions from becoming a staple of the living room.

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It used to be that you'd need to regularly sync your iPhone with your Mac to transfer personal data, files, and even apps. Now, there's an even easier way. See what we mean, and what you need to know before syncing your iPhone to your Mac.

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Know your way around the Command Prompt in Windows? Then you can write a batch file. See what a batch file is, how to write one, and how they can save you a ton of time.

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Lose your Windows 10 product key? Find it by typing this key phrase in Command Prompt.

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One of the changes of systemd is that it adds a new way to schedule jobs, and with more finesse than cron. Here's how to use systemd to make that happen.

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Who says each of your monitors needs to be the same? You can make each monitor have a different wallpaper, and this is how you do it.

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Did you know you can add check boxes in Microsoft Word? You can, and it's easy to do it. See just how easy we're talking here.

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Netflix's shuttering of its disc-based subscription business is the end of an era. It may also feel like the days of using disc-based media has also finally come to an end. While it's true that streaming is vastly more popular than optical media, the days of renting discs through the mail aren't over yet!

Check out our list of our favorite disc-based subscription services. Who knows? Try it out, and watch movies or rent games like you're living in an alternate universe where streaming never existed.

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Extensions and add-ons make great browsers even better. But they're typically only available on the desktop. That's not entirely true in the case of browsers on Android, though. Here are a few of them.

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Snoozing notifications on your Android device is handy, but what if you forget an important notification? No worries, as you can get reminders of those important notifications. Here's how to set that up.

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If you’re getting a “Conversation not found” error when continuing a conversation on ChatGPT, there could be few reasons why this is happening. Let's go through them one at a time.

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When you create a virtual hard disk in VirtualBox or VMware, you specify a maximum disk size. But what if you If you want more space later on? This is the process you'll have to go through.

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Drop-down lists make it so you don't have to input the same value over and over again. Sound good? Here's how to get started.

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