( 5 reviews )
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( 5 of 5 found this review helpful ) Posted: 04-27-2007
The picture is excellent for an LCD. It has lots of different video inputs. It's huge and has high resolution. It's bright and has excellent contrast and color. I want a second one to go dual screen. I have no regrets at all about buying this monitor. There are some minor negatives but they're largely nit picking. While it has PIP, it only works while one of the computer inputs is the main screen and it can only show one of the composite/s-video/component inputs in the PIP which must be selected via the menus. When looking at a 1080i signal over the component input, it apparently either stretches the image to 1200 pixels high (throwing off the aspect ratio) or it stretches in both directions which would require cutting off a little bit on the sides. Either way it's wrong. 1920x1080 on a 1920x1200 16:10 screen should be 1920x1080 16:9 with 60 pixel high black bars on the top and bottom (letterboxed). I tried hooking my cable box up to the DVI port, the box complains that the monitor doesn't support HDCP and refuses to work which is rather irritating. I've read on a few sites that this monitor supports HDCP so I suppose it could be a problem with the box but I suspect it's the monitor. It would be nice if it had a remote control to modify settings. The USBcomputer connection should be on the back of the monitor; not on the side.
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( 6 of 7 found this review helpful ) Posted: 11-10-2006
I spend all day every day in front of my computers, & have been doing so for 25 years. This monitor is the best monitor I have ever seen, bar none. There are no dead pixels. It is bright, with no ghosting. It has become my preferred venue for watching movies. The included software works well at re-orienting the monitor to vertical mode or horizontal mode. It also adapts nicely to 16:9 formats or 4:3 formats. It is very easy to set up, with a plethora of cabling options. My one complaint is the hokey USB cable that projects from the left side of the monitor. But I'm happy to live with that, given all of the other virtues this monitor exhibits.
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( 12 of 12 found this review helpful ) Posted: 02-24-2006
I got my new 244t 2 days ago. My previous monitor was a Samsung 213t, which served me well, thus I was ready to trust Samsung again. The 213t was a great monitor, and before I saw this new one in action, I thought it was quite good for gaming too (it was, of course, but switching back from this one it isn't anymore). But looking at how things move and are displayed by this new monster is like going from night to day. Pictures are the sharpest I have ever seen, World of Warcraft simply looks fantastic at 1920x1200 and most of all there isn't the slightest amount of ghosting even in the most problematic situations (using DVI, fo course). Add to this all inputs and configuration options you could ask for, and that's it. Don't miss it...it's more expensive than equivalent models from other companies, but it's worth.
