Samsung shows clean lines on 1080p SyncMaster 2494HS LCD
By Darren Murph 
posted Nov 21st 2008 11:39AM
posted Nov 21st 2008 11:39AM
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It seems like the glossy look is going out of style, if for no other reason than to differentiate newer products from older ones.
Whatever the reason, praise the lord! Keeping glossy stuff clean was the leading cause of suicide among OCD consumers in Q1 and Q2 2009.
i have the syncmaster 2493 - its 24" and full 1080p - cracking screen, wouldnt swap it for anything.
Whats with all these 16:9 displays? Gimme the other 120 pixels back noobs.
Actually, it's 230,000 extra pixels ;)
230400* :P
one meelion pixels
Yep, I realized that as soon as I hit "add comment" ;)
that's 1 step backward: 1920x1200 down to 1920x1080
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.
by that logic, the next step forward is damn near 4:3. Sounds like a vicious circle to me.
I love Samsung monitors.
Yup! Me too. I own the Samsung SyncMaster 216BW 21.6''
If I plug in my PS3, can these things do 24fps and 100Hz?
What will the Dollar to Won/Yen exchange rate be in a few months I wonder?
Stock up on consumer goods now.
very nice!
Is this a TN panel?
tell that to my fat dock / taskbar
@wolfticket.
incidentally, anyone who reads (korean?) able to see if this is a TN panel, etc.?
Most likely a TN panel just by looking at the price. Expect $600+ if it were a non-TN.
what... no display port?
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.
You can get a component -> VGA adapter for, like, a fist full of nickles from Monoprice.
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.
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.
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.
i thought samsung pulled out of japan ?????
No Touch of Color?
In that case, this might be worth looking at!
Booo @ 5ms. Get back to the draw board!
alas, another 16:9 tn cr@p. not even worth half the price for that kind of panel quality.