Samsung pushes out BX2350 and BX2335 1080p monitors
By Darren Murph 
posted July 7th 2010 7:46AM
posted July 7th 2010 7:46AM
We've always been fairly fond of Samsung's Touch of Color design scheme, so we're glad to see it's still firmly in place on the company's new "eco-friendly" LED displays. The outfit's debuting its 50 and 30 series panels today, with the BX2350 and BX2335 both offering a 2ms response time, 1080p resolution, 16:9 aspect ratio and a rather unique new feature called Magic Return. Put simply, this allows users working with two monitors to have their desktop automatically moved to a powered-on screen if one screen happens to shut down -- Sammy doesn't mention if both monitors have to be in this new series, but we suspect those details (along with price and availability dates) will seep out soon. Samsung Electronics Improves Viewing Experience with New Eco-Friendly LED Monitors
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Seoul (Korea Newswire) July 6, 2010 -- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the number one worldwide brand for display products, is continuing to evolve LED monitor technology by offering environmentally-friendly monitors with better viewing angles and eye-catching designs with the release of its 50 and 30 series LED monitors.
Before developing its latest LED monitors, Samsung consumers identified three key areas that would benefit consumer needs – eco-friendliness, design and viewing experience. Samsung addressed these mandates in the following ways:
- Eco-friendly LED backlight: The 50 and 30 series LED monitors highlight Samsung's commitment to putting the PlanetFirst™. Unlike conventional monitors, LED-backlit displays contain few or no environmentally hazardous substances, such as mercury or lead, and use about 40 percent less energy. Samsung's Touch of Color (ToC) technology doesn't use paints, sprays or glues, ensuring they contain no Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), making recycling simpler and safer.
Samsung's Magic Eco feature allows users to adjust a monitor's brightness based on different energy consumption levels with four preset energy-saving options to choose from: 100 percent, 75 percent, 50 percent, and Power-Saving Off. Additionally, the 50 and 30 series monitors meet international energy standards including Energy Star 5.0 and China's Energy Level 1 grade (50 series), proving themselves eco-friendly products.
- Sleek and slim design: Both the 50 and 30 series introducenew, sleek designs that set them apart from previous design trends. Both have adopted Samsung's trademark ToC technology, reducing monitor thickness dramatically. The 50 series employs a Charcoal gray ToC design, a stand with a chrome finish and a delicate wave back-pattern. The 30 series differentiates itself with its Mystic Brown ToC design, a color not commonly found in conventional monitors, which is reminiscent of rich, handcrafted chocolate. These products truly deliver on Samsung's design philosophy that consumer electronics should resemble pieces of art that help tie a room together.
- The most comfortable viewing experience: Samsung's new 50 and 30 series LED monitors support Samsung's proprietary Magic Angle feature to reduce eye strain and ensure that images are centered when viewed from any angle. This eliminates distortion and provides the best viewing angle whether standing, sitting, or even lying down. Consumers can also enjoy vivid, dynamic images thanks to the Mega Dynamic Contrast Ratio, ultra-fast response time of 2ms, FHD resolution, and a 16:9 aspect ratio.
Also unique to the 50 series is a new feature called Magic Return. When users are working with two monitors, Magic Return automatically moves content from a screen that is abruptly turned off to the screen that is still on, enabling content to be accessed even if one of the monitors gets disconnected, or shuts off.
"Samsung's 50 and 30 LED monitors illustrate our commitment to releasing top-of-the-line products that are environmentally-friendly and address the needs of consumers," said Jin-hwan Kim, Vice President, Visual Display Business, Samsung Electronics. "Through our continuous monitor innovations, we expect the 50 and 30 series of LED monitors will strengthen our leadership in the global LED monitor market."
looks awesome
@robott
It does look awesome... but without prices, it's not a story.
For enough money, you or I could employ a contract manufacturer to build a monitor,and fabricate a sexy looking base like that one.
And that's nfar beyond the point most of us would consider ourselves seriously interested or not.
I'm frustred at non-stories like this. It's useless trivia at this point... we don't even really know from this if it's a real product with a release date. Sad. I'd rather have waited for a real story that told me real information.
Haven't monitors done 1080p and more for long time?
@yeoldgreat1
Yes. What's terrible is that since there's so much demand for 1080p (HDTV!!), monitors haven't increased in resolution ever since the craze hit because there's not really much of a market for it. Anything higher resolution is still nearly $1,000. Screen resolutions stopped progressing five years ago, thanks to the HDTV market.
@yeoldgreat1 I was going to make a comment on it as well. If it is a 22"+ monitor and its not "1080p", it is probably not worth buying. Just saying.
@Haxxy So true and I hate it. 1080p is fine for watching movies or gaming it's not cool for a work desktop on a screen bigger than 20 inches.
I want a reasonably priced 30 inch monitor with 2560 by 1600 (or there abouts) resolution.
@tad604
1080p IS NOT "FINE" for movies or gaming.
It's a abysmal really when you look at the resolution of other devices (uh, iPhone 4).
I'm hoping we can just skip out 4Kx2K and jump straight to 8Kx4K to make up for this lost time.
@Haxxy Totally agree. I am frustrated that the only way I can get a monitor to match the res of my 27" iMac is to give Dell over $1k. It's ridiculous.
@FORDY thad be pure fire if we could skip to 8k x 4k
@FORDY
hell not give me my 32k x 16k monitor now. and im still on my 5:4 1280x1024. funny thing is, most "full HD" pictures more or less fit on my screen with only a little bit cut off. that is sorely disappointing. mind i tell you that this monitor is from years ago. it hasa response time of 20ms which makes watching any fast motion video a pain.
call me old fashioned but i've always hated these 'touch of color' monitors. i like my monitors with a standard black bezel, even better if it's a dell monitor.
@dedparrot Agreed. And that base looks like legs in skin tight trousers... WTF. I prefer my monitors square edged and plain matte black plastic (like my Samsung 245B).
16:10 > 16.9 for work. Full HD my ass. I want that to watch a movie (which I got a 42" plasma for), not on my desktop to cripple screen real estate for marketing purposes.
Thankfully Eizo doesnt give in to this yip-yap and sticks to what makes sense.
Notice: I said work. You obviously dont buy Eizo to browse the intarwebs and play games only.
@Bahumbug: Agreed! 16:10 is the God Aspect Ratio for anything
@Bahumbug
Still on a couple of 1280*1024 ones myself, 5:4 FTW!
Really though, I had intended to move to 1920*1200 but with those being all but extinct these days and 2560*1440 and 2560*1600 still costing an arm and a leg there's no point.
Pardon me for being stupid, but the model numbers look confusing to suggest the screen size, in addition to no where in both Engadget and Samsung press release articles are any suggestion to the sizes. So I am going to assume they are 30" and 50" LED monitors.
@wsansewjs
Both are 23" screens.
@wsansewjs and neither of them are led screens. Just the backlight.
Hopefully the px led monitor that I've been eying goes on sale now. I want it so bad. Can't remember the exact model number.
Btw, engadget, magic return isn't a new feature.
If it's cheap, it's worth buying at least two. lol
TBH instead of getting physically larger and stagnating around the so called 1080 resolution I would rather panel manufacturers start working on pixel density! I want a 24inch Monitor with some 300+ PPI loving! (I haven't bothered to figure out what resolution that would be, but I'm sure it would be awesome :P)
They look great and all, love the brand, but doesn't Magic Return function the same way as unplugging then replugging in your monitor. At least for me in Windows 7 thats exactly what happens. Yup, just tested it. The only downside to what I just did was needing to move my taskbar back to the secondary screen. Who's excited about potentially being overcharged a feature we already have, c'mon?
Sexy base!
My two problems with these new Samsung monitors are:
1. I use a dual screen setup currently and everything is laid out exactly how I want it across both screens. My main screen is for my work/browsing etc and my secondary screen has my chat clients, audio player, RSS/News feeds etc. Everytime the desktop loads, everything appears as it should on the appropriate screen. Sammys "Magic Return" option sounds like it would mess things up by showing the desktop on the working screen. What about stuff that was on my secondary screen? Is it going to throw all those things on the single monitor that is switched on too? This sounds like a feature I would not like to see in action.
2. What is the big deal to say that the monitor is 1080p? That to me just indicates the monitor probably maxs out at 1080 pixels which for a monitor in this day and age is pretty poor. Even my 6 year old Sony monitor does 1280x1024. It seems like in the race with HD, manufacturers can just give us 1080 pixels and not need to offer more when monitors have been offering that resolution and higher, for years. 1600-1900 pixels sounds like something more worth it.
Seriously, when will TN die?
@Yankee Not soon enough.
Magic return ? This potential brand conflict has obviously changed the way Apple is handling the iPhone 4 issues.
Why should a monitor "happen to shut down"? Doesn't make me very confident in this product if it has this kind of fail-safe.
Ug...1920x1200 is what I want to buy. I prefer the additional real estate.
I want a 27" 28" or 30 incher! WTF SAMSUNG! Give me more rez at bigger sizes and less money for the better tech!
That stand went out of style seconds after it was photographed.
I heard that some of the Samsung LED monitor have blurry texts.
They can keep their TN panels. IPS all the way over here.
They should only make 120Hz or better. 3D FTW