It does seam kinda silly to have a curved screen on anything less than about 10' wide. I set 12' away from my 8' wide screen in the HT, and I've not ever felt a need for it to be curved.

My living room TV is a Panasonic Plasma, 1080P. Great image, and dark blacks for a room with a lot of ambient light. I never would have thought an LED TV would look as good as my plasma, but I'm doubting that after looking at a few 4K displays.