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Samsung SyncMaster 245BW Black 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor

SyncMaster 245BW Black 24

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Samsung SyncMaster 245BW Black 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor

  • Reviewed by: andresgriego

    01-04-09

    Duration of ownership: 11 Months

    Strengths: It's average.

    Weaknesses:Some CS rep diagnosed over the phone that a pin-prick hole in the LCD (from a pencil) caused my backlight to start flickering! YOUR WARRANTY IS GARBAGE WITH SAMSUNG! They are dishonest!

    Overall Evaluation: For the love of God don't waste your money on this company. Buy from Sony who cares about repeat customers.

  • Reviewed by: johnwawrz

    11-07-07

    Duration of ownership: 1 Months

    Strengths: Bright image, great detail, lots of controls, attractive, height adjustment.

    Weaknesses:Cannot be calibrated, over-saturated reds even after calibration, deep shadows block up, vertical viewing angle is zero.

    Overall Evaluation: I have been working hard to find a reasonably priced large monitor for photographic work. This is my 3rd Samsung. I need accurate color and none of the three could be calibrated by any method (including fudging all the controls and using the best sensor based calibration systems). Reds always oversaturate. The worst problem is that there is NO vertical position where you can see the whole image accurately. 1/4" of vertical motion and the top gets darker and the bottom lighter or visa versa. If you are a graphic artists, stay away. For general purpose use it is a good deal.

  • Reviewed by: rafdo

    08-29-07

    Duration of ownership: 2 Months

    Strengths: great picture

    Weaknesses:Can't be used as a second monitor with laptop even with AMD-ATI graphics card (256 MB) XP. Setup using DVI & analog cables w supplied drivers permanently blacks out notebook monitor by changing XP OS disabling brightness & other controls. This is a reported issue without a fix. Model doesn't swivel as advertised.

    Overall Evaluation: As a notebook user I feel Samsung failed to notify consumers of irreversible changes in XP OS by using this monitor & drivers on notebooks as a primary or second monitor. Samsung doesn't offer online support for resolving problems with monitors. Returning the monitor doesn't solve being left with a blank screen on a high end graphics gamer notebook. Samsung's lack of probelms solving suppoprt with new products is very disappointing.

  • Reviewed by: Geof1542

    04-27-09

    Duration of ownership: 8 Months

    Strengths: Nice looking screen, good enough refresh rate for FPSs

    Weaknesses:It broke after less than a year

    Overall Evaluation: It's great monitor when it works. Nice fast refresh rate, I never had probems with it playing fast paced FPS games. Videos were crisp and contrast was fine. However after a week I noticed when the monitor would wake up from sleep mode some of the pixels that should have been black were replaced with bright blue pixels. More and more blue pixels would replace the black ones till the monitor would blink on and off till it fixed itself and the screen turned back to normal. This didn't happen often but it was annoying. Also I could "fix" the blue pixels by turning the monitor off then on, monitor worked fine if it started from on off state (not sleep mode). This problem was just an annoyance but it would fix itself, not a big deal, then one day in the middle of playing a game it flashed a white screen and didn't turn on again. I tried it with different computers and different video cables (DVI and analog) I sent it off to Samsung and they repaired it within a week (no complaints there). Right now i'm using it it works fine, but the annoying blue pixels are still there when the monitor wakes from sleep mode.

  • Reviewed by:

    01-18-08

    Duration of ownership: 1 Days

    Strengths: HUGE, bright, beautiful LCD. No ghosting even during a very extended gaming session. 1920 x 1200 resolution really shows off this masterpiece's strength.

    Weaknesses:Strenghts Continued:I can see no major issues with viewing angle; but I'm not using it for anything other than general and gaming. NO DEAD PIXELS ! WOOT ! Samsung rocks.

    Overall Evaluation: Had to turn the brightness down to 40% because it was giving me a full frontal sunburn. I think my contacts were melted to my eyes before I realized what happened. ONSALE.com was awesome with delivery and price. $50 rebate from Samsung sealed the deal; now to see if I can actually get the rebate back from Samsung.

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