Average Customer Review: ( 19 customer reviews )
Write an online review and share your thoughts with other customers.
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
10 of 10 found the following review helpful:
 Loving it Jan 23, 2011
By andrew wynn
I am a professional photographer and demand a lot from my display. If you need accurate colors, adjustable brightness/contrast, maneuverability, and plenty of room for applications this is your monitor. All in all I am completely satisfied with with this display and would recommend it to anyone for any purpose. Games, coding, editing, cinema, and everything else I have used so far is as near perfect as I could expect in this price range.
This monitor is amazing. I researched thoroughly for weeks before deciding to pay a bit more for this monitor over some others with supposedly better panel technology. I made the right choice. This 16x10 ratio 24 incher is similar in size to what I use at work, but feels bigger, is sharper, and had near perfect color out of the box. There are still no dead pixels or any other problem after a month of use. I am so pleased with this monitor that I have not even bothered to bring home my Spyder 3 Pro colorimeter yet. I adjusted the settings for brightness, contrast, and color by eye with the standard menu controls and will leave it at that for now. Really the only thing that needed any tuning was the excessive brightness which is an advantage, not a problem.
The bezel is thin and unobtrusive, the power light is small and located at the bottom right where it is barely noticeable. The angles of view are the first of two cons with this monitor, while the angles are superior to my previous monitor I think that is the only thing left to improve upon for Samsung. Other reviewers seemed to have more trouble with this than I did. I move all over the room while watching movies and the problem is minor. The stand is fairly sturdy, and quite easy to operate. You need to raise the height in order to flip the monitor vertically but so what, it moves like a dream and stays where you put it. The viewing angles issue is moderated completely by simply adjusting the panel before you move about. For the size of this display, it has a very small footprint on my desk. I cannot overstate how wonderful the 16x10 ratio is, there is more than enough room for me to have four windows open at any time with full readability and function while still accessing my task bar and desktop.
The last point is a nit pick for Samsung, the specs are listed some places as saying the dynamic contrast ratio is 50,000 to one, sometimes listed as 20,000 to one, and sometimes as 1000 to one. The truth is that it has a full time operating contrast ratio of 1000:1, and nativly will dynamically boost to 20,000:1. There is a menu option that will allow for 50,000:1 with software support. This should get straightened out and advertised properly. That being said, the performance is phenomenal.
The only other con I ran into was a bit of a challenge running the driver CD. It would not auto play properly, and I was forced to manually install the drivers. Samsung may want to think about rewriting the software install executables.
8 of 8 found the following review helpful:
 Narrow viewing angle Feb 07, 2011
By Tweeter
I bought it because i wanted something 1920x1200 (vice 1920x1080 as most monitors now appear to be) but not as expensive as the Dell 2407WFP it was replacing.
The Dell was great up to the day it died...bright image, very wide viewing angle...i just didn't feel like paying Dell another $600-700 to get a replacement.
The Samsung has a very narrow sweet spot for optimal viewing. Get a few degrees off center and the image starts fading quickly.
I bought it sight unseen but expected better based on the monitors i saw in stores at half the price.
11 of 12 found the following review helpful:
Great for developers Feb 21, 2010
By I Teach Typing
If you need a LOT of screen space this is an excellent monitor. It is bright, crisp and with a good viewable angle but most of all it runs at 1920x1200 pixels in native mode. If you are doing programming and need a lot of room to show code and other windows this is an excellent buy.
7 of 8 found the following review helpful:
 bad viewing angle, fuzzy monitor Aug 04, 2010
By symbolic
I own two other SAMSUNG monitors which I am happy with (except that they run hot)
so I had high expectations for this one, which runs a lot cooler.
Unfortunately, I either got a lemon or this is a really bad monitor.
The viewing angle is so bad that I cannot sit at the monitor and look
at a constant color top-to-bottom xterm window without it very noticeably
going from a fairly rich color at the top and a very washed out (same) color
at the bottom. Also, I fiddled with it for hours and could not get it
to render type without blurring it. And then to add insult to injury,
it developed two lines of pixels always on from top to bottom.
I'm getting rid of it.
4 of 5 found the following review helpful:
1920 x 1200 Resolution = Crisp Text and Sharp Display Sep 23, 2010
By R. Baird
The key here, everyone, is the resolution. You're going to find a plethora of 1920 x 1080 HD monitors these days, and while I've tried only one of those, it was misery enough for me. If you want crisp text, forget the 1080 and go for 1200. All things else being equal, unless you are doing nothing but watching videos, 1200 beats 1080 hands down.
Top that off with the fact that this is a Samsung (my 4th Samsung in 10 years, and every one of them still working good as new--they never die for me), that you are getting brilliant color, bright display, solid stand, and excellent viewing angles (don't know why the other reviewers had issues with that, unless they sit with their monitor to one side and work while looking at it sideways), you can't go wrong with this monitor. You pay a little more for this size and resolution, it's true, but the monitor is what you see when you work, so don't cut corners here. I'm completely happy with this purchase (and I'm not easy to please).
See all 19 customer reviews on Amazon.com
|
