Samsung shows clean lines on 1080p SyncMaster 2494HS LCD

It's missing the nearly iconic glossy black bezel that has become such an expectation on Samsung displays, but the SyncMaster 2494HS would still be welcome at our cluttered work desk. The 23.6-inch panel sports an all-business, matte black motif with a native 1,920 x 1,080 resolution, 300 nits of brightness, a 5-millisecond response time, 50,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio, inbuilt stereo speakers and DVI / VGA / HDMI inputs. The LCD is expected to go on sale in Japan next month for around ¥40,000 ($423), but if we were the betting type (an we're not), we'd expect it to roll onto fresh, moist US soil in due time.

[Via Impress]

[Kevin @ Nov 21st 2008 11:45AM]

It seems like the glossy look is going out of style, if for no other reason than to differentiate newer products from older ones.

[Tom @ Nov 21st 2008 1:28PM]

Whatever the reason, praise the lord! Keeping glossy stuff clean was the leading cause of suicide among OCD consumers in Q1 and Q2 2009.

[iNv @ Nov 21st 2008 7:09PM]

i have the syncmaster 2493 - its 24" and full 1080p - cracking screen, wouldnt swap it for anything.

[nzo @ Nov 21st 2008 11:48AM]

Whats with all these 16:9 displays? Gimme the other 120 pixels back noobs.

[Mike @ Nov 21st 2008 11:54AM]

Actually, it's 230,000 extra pixels ;)

[nzo @ Nov 21st 2008 11:59AM]

230400* :P

[phanbouy fan fan @ Nov 21st 2008 12:01PM]

one meelion pixels

[Mike @ Nov 21st 2008 12:19PM]

Yep, I realized that as soon as I hit "add comment" ;)

[guzzardo @ Nov 21st 2008 11:50AM]

that's 1 step backward: 1920x1200 down to 1920x1080

[Wolfticket @ Nov 21st 2008 12:01PM]

No top and bottom black lines and an marginally larger picture for 1080p content is nice, and losing 120 lines for desktop apps in hardly gonna make much difference.

[bandigolo @ Nov 21st 2008 2:34PM]

by that logic, the next step forward is damn near 4:3. Sounds like a vicious circle to me.

[happy_penguin @ Nov 21st 2008 11:50AM]

I love Samsung monitors.

[NightShade15 @ Nov 23rd 2008 2:15AM]

Yup! Me too. I own the Samsung SyncMaster 216BW 21.6''

[Liam @ Nov 21st 2008 11:54AM]

If I plug in my PS3, can these things do 24fps and 100Hz?

[--------- @ Nov 21st 2008 11:56AM]

What will the Dollar to Won/Yen exchange rate be in a few months I wonder?

Stock up on consumer goods now.

[bandigolo @ Nov 21st 2008 11:58AM]

very nice!

[phanbouy fan fan @ Nov 21st 2008 12:02PM]

tell that to my fat dock / taskbar

[phanbouy fan fan @ Nov 21st 2008 12:04PM]

@wolfticket.

incidentally, anyone who reads (korean?) able to see if this is a TN panel, etc.?

[Jason @ Nov 21st 2008 12:07PM]

Is this a TN panel?

[Bob @ Nov 21st 2008 12:10PM]

Most likely a TN panel just by looking at the price. Expect $600+ if it were a non-TN.

[newbie @ Nov 21st 2008 12:19PM]

what... no display port?

[Zeus.:God @ Nov 21st 2008 12:22PM]

Connections? Would need component if Samsung wants my money.

That's the thing I love about the Gateway monitors is the plethora of connections they have... If only their color quality hadn't gone down the drain. My original 22" 1680x1050 monitor crapped out and I replaced it with a newer Gateway... Color was so bad, whereas it was perfect on my old one.

[Xenoterranos @ Nov 21st 2008 3:07PM]

You can get a component -> VGA adapter for, like, a fist full of nickles from Monoprice.

[bull3964 @ Nov 21st 2008 12:43PM]

I think the reason why we are seeing more 16:9 monitors is the manufacturers are realizing that the lines between TV and Monitor are practically non-existent now.

Why would I spend a premium for a 24-30 inch "HDTV" when I can just get a monitor that has speakers and an HDMI input and hook it to a cable box?

These 16:9 monitors are basically their own class of "entertainment monitors" made to hook DVD players, game consoles, and set top boxes to, not really dedicated PC monitors. This class is better suited to a 16:9 1920x1080 resolution to match the content out there.

[IK @ Nov 21st 2008 3:01PM]

what are you talking about man

there's a huge difference between a TV and a computer monitor

the TV has image processors, a TV tuner, all sorts of inputs, menus and a remote control

the most important of which are the image processors

I've got a Dell 2408WFP, which has 6 types on inputs, as well as a very decent non-TN panel, but it doesn't come close to a good purpose built TV.

[bull3964 @ Nov 21st 2008 6:35PM]

Most of the processing becomes relevant when you are still dealing with SD and analog material. If you are just shoving 1920x1080 video at the screen, a good PC monitor (like this one) is going to be damn near functionally the same as a full blown TV. (In fact, I would argue most of the "processing" capabilities that modern TVs have are a boatload of crap and should be disabled.)

The only potential issue of using it with a cable box is whether or not it can accept 1080i as an input resolution. However, for xbox, ps3, or blu-ray it's a non issue. Just plug in HDMI and away we go.

[El Taco @ Nov 21st 2008 1:47PM]

No Touch of Color?

In that case, this might be worth looking at!

[E71 @ Nov 21st 2008 3:46PM]

Booo @ 5ms. Get back to the draw board!

[ale @ Nov 21st 2008 7:29PM]

i thought samsung pulled out of japan ?????

[Al Bundy @ Nov 21st 2008 11:49PM]

alas, another 16:9 tn cr@p. not even worth half the price for that kind of panel quality.