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Samsung SyncMaster 243T

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Pros
Full range of physical adjustments
Cons
Slow 25ms pixel response time

Samsung SyncMaster 243T Review

by Laura Blackwell

- Samsung's 24-inch SyncMaster 243t has no desire to be a TV; it just wants to be a great monitor. It's one of the few wide screens we've tested that offers no component, composite, or S-Video inputs. When we initially tested the 243t (for our November 2004 issue), it earned an Editor's Pick for its superb image quality. When we retested the now-$1699 monitor under our revised protocols, our jury judged its text display and graphics the best of any of the 23-inch-and-up models tested. (We put the 243T up against 23-inch LCDs at the same 1920-by-1200-pixel native resolution; most testers did not notice the size difference.) The 243T made an especially strong showing on our test screens of a color scale and of fonts in different sizes.

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User Reviews for Samsung SyncMaster 243T

Reviewed by: jmr2112

Duration of ownership:

Strengths: gets a lot of frequent flyer miles traveling back and forth for repair

Weaknesses: simply a poorly made piece of junk

Overall Evaluation: I am greatly sorry I ever purchased this monitor. At 11 months it simply died. A call to customer service was an exercise in patience and tolerance of plain stupidity. The only thing the "tech" kept saying was ' I don't know sir , I don't know sir, I don't know sir , which was bad enough but worse he expected me to take this as an answer. I opted to switch mine for a refurbished 243. What I was given was a 240 with a 243 sticker on it. They really ought to know to change the bios chip inside. I had this refurbished 240 for 7 weeks and now its completely dead too. Is It me . I think not. I ve never had a monitor go bad before at all much less 2 in 2 months. CAVEATE EMPTOR. This monitor is junk.

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