I read in sci.electronics.design that Michael A. Terrell
wrote (in
) about 'A round shaped LCD screen', on
Wed, 20 Apr 2005:

There used to be round monitors in the early days of TV.

English Electric 16 inch round tubes, with metal flares, all at 16 kV or
so! They even put some in up-market receivers.
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