This is a great monitor for the price. You can get better, but it will cost you. One small problem developed in mine (and several others, as I found out later). If you're using XP, many of these monitors will develop an intermittent and repeated problem with suddenly turning off and then restarting. I accidentally solved the problem by installing an updated driver from Samsung (which didn't help), and then automatically downloading a new driver from Microsoft. After losing my screen resolution and the ability to change it, I restored my system to the old driver and I haven't had the shutting down problem since. I don't know why it solved the issue, but it did. Please note that this monitor does not have internal speakers. If you need them, you're looking at buying from a different manufacturer. Update: After using the monitor for a couple of years now, and installing Windows 7, it's still working and the display is as clear as it was when new. Moving to Windows 7 negates all the earlier driver issues and the monitor would be a solid excellent factoring in the cost and durability.Read full review
I purchased a non-working model on e-bay in order to repair it. I have a bunch of 225BW's and this 226BW for an AMD Eyefinity multiple monitor solution. I actually put the 226BW panel into a 225BW bezel as the 225BW bezel/back-shell is thinner and more adjustable than the 226BW (225BW has tilt/telescope, while the 226BW has tilt only). The 226BW panel color-wise is better than the 'C' 225BW panels (Google the S,A,C versions of the 225BW panels). It also features a different signal processor for faster gray-to-gray transitions. Interestingly, though, the 226BW panel will work just fine with the 225BW signal processor. The max resolution is 1650x1050, just shy of 1080P. I don't care about that because they will be for gaming, not watching Hi-def movies. Back in '06-07 when these were on store shelves, they were easily one of the better monitors in retail; the only reason you see non-working models on e-bay is because they were susceptible to capacitor failure. Though many other brands like Viewsonic used the same Chinese mfg and have similar failure problems. My original 225BW had cap failure, but it was a store demo model for 8 months, being left on 24x7. There are newer, bigger, TN monitors out there today. But the 226BW is a reasonable-cost way of upgrading a smaller display to a widescreen, getting some bold, rich colors, and enough speed that gaming looks good. Also, if you care about monitor styling, the shiny plastic bezel on the 226BW, along with the quality and feel of the rest of the plastics is pretty good.Read full review
Good looking monitor. Thin frame, matte lcd, no glare. 16:10 aspect ratio, little taller than 16:9 aspect monitors, while still maintaining widescreen. The blue light around the power button looks good, it's not bright or distracting. I didnt notice any light bleeding through from edges. Took me a little while to set the colors. Ended up having to use software to tweak the colors to my liking. There were a few different options in the monitor's menu to adjust colors. It's just easier to adjust the colors through a software program and leave the monitors settings as default. The viewing angle is exactly what you'd expect from a standard monitor. Pretty good from the sides,but starts to get dark when your viewing angle is below or above the monitor. No ghosting in games,COD:MW2,CS:S,DoD:S,SW:Force Unleashed Sith, etc.Read full review
This is LCD is awesome and shipping was one of the fastest I've seen. Overall I don't have complains with this screen except that it shows some slightly wear. I checked mine and is not A, C Neither S Panel so i don't know what's going on, mine says Type B, so i don't know. Anyways this screen doesn't have predominant blue color problem or any other problems that people have found in A and C panels. This one looks so nice, smooth, bright, crisp, powerful, vivid colors and good display. Well i hope this review helps cause that's all i can say about this great monitor.
When the nerves in my left eyelid began to jerk in an uncontrollable spasm from staring at the CRT display I decided that it was time to switch to a LCD monitor, so that my eyes would not be continually assailed by the beam from an electron gun. The memory of lugging the heavy CRT up two flights of stairs was also fresh in my mind and played a significant role in my decision. My old CRT monitor was also efficient at heating my room. But I wanted efficient display, not efficient heat. It was time to buy a lightweight LCD monitor. The Samsung LCD monitor had a feature that I have always wanted in monitors. A narrow bezel. I once asked a retailer why there needs to be such a wide frame around CRT displays and he replied that if they had a narrow frame no one would buy them. Competition forced a wide bezel in the same way that competition forced redundant repetition of the table of contents, etc. in all computer manuals to make the volume of printed material appear huge and important. I always believed that this repetition was because computer programmers were illiterate or at the very least English class dropouts. My Samsung Syncmaster has a narrow bezel. The screen size of my 19” CRT monitor was adequate for my purposes, but then I realized that I could accomodate a much wider LCD monitor that did not take up any more space than my old CRT. Initially, I was just going to replace it with a 19” LCD, but when I reviewed the specifications I realized that along with increased size came better features. Among these were a 2 millisecond response time and a contrast ratio of 3000 to one. Smaller LCDs typically had a contrast ratio of around 400:1 and a response time of about eight milliseconds. These features tipped the purchase decision in my favor and I bought the 22" SyncMaster. Initially, I had to get used to the new technology. In a CRT, light spreads, making text appear smoother than the data that is actually being transmitted to the screen. To my surprise, text in a LCD reminded me of the near text quality of old dot matrix printers. My initial impression was that for 10 pt. type a CRT set to, say, 1024x768 resolution was smoother than a LCD set to 1680x1050. That initial impression is because you can see more detail in a higher resolution LCD monitor without any light spread making individual pixels stand out. The real advantage is in graphics with fine detail that is visible in the higher resolution LCD monitor. Now that I am using the Syncmaster I would never go back to a CRT monitor, but neither would anyone else. It has all the features that I like: Display is easy on the eyes. Color is an altogether different experience. I have never seen such solid blacks in a display before. Screen images sweep off rapidly and can handle anything that the display adapter tosses to it. It uses a maximum of 56 watts compared to about 300-400 watts of my old CRT. And the bezel surrounding the screen is only about a half inch wide so that the width of the monitor does not waste space. And, when moving I will not have to lug fifty or more pounds up and down stairs. The SyncMaster weights about ten pounds. Overall, I am quite satisfied with the product.Read full review
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