samsung 245bw short review

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Girmantas

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yesterday while shopping in costco I saw this samsung 245bw monitor for $479 (or $489). As I was looking for 24" monitor to upgrade lately, decided to give it a try. First, I have dual monitor setup (17" viesonic vp 171b (3years old) and main viewsonic vx2025wm). As I work plenty with photoshop, I always can use more work space so initially I wanted to check how bigger is 24" than my 20" is. Here is the picture...its bigger, but I don't think its worth $500 to upgrade from 20".
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So after initial looking around with size, decided to test this monitor a little bit. currently I have windows vista 64bit, so nokia monitor test refused to start... I got luck with tfttest (the same thing as nokia test), but result were so disappointing.... color transition is horrible. As it is very smooth in my 20" viewsonic, on this samsung it is .... I am not professional tester so I don't know the term, but I believe its banding. Please correct me if I'm not right. I will calibrate this samsung tonight, however, it is going back probably next week. Btw, I tried to download driver for vista64bit, no luck....maybe here is the problem, I don't know.
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it's a TN panel, so you should've known before buying that the colors would be sub-par. TN panel + Photoshop = failure.

Size looks nice though.
 
I hope these 24" TNs die in a fire. Dumbass joe schmoe buyer sees 'big screen, low price, ughugh me want' and it will just end up driving all decent panels out of the market. *sigh*
 
I knew that it was TN panel, I just wanted to compare the size to my 20". I did not expect it to be so bad.....however, I will buy dell 2405 instead...
 
btw I wasn't calling you a dumbass ;)...you were just seeing how it is and you found out: bad! lol
 
Madman0 said:
btw I wasn't calling you a dumbass ;)...you were just seeing how it is and you found out: bad! lol
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yeah ditto. You never know until you try. I had my TN experience with a Samsung 740B back in the day and I made the mistake of hooking it up next to an 8-bit Dell monitor. Needless to say, the Samsung got sold fairly quickly.
 
1. I read on australian forums that there are different versions of that monitor where the banding was fixed.

2. My 20wmgx2 has awful banding as well and it's an IPS monitor, banding is the least of your worries in an lcd, there are far worse things than banding such as input lag, backlight bleed, bad pixel response, black crush effect, blurry picture/text, etc.

I have yet to see a good LCD, if it doesn't have banding it will have 45ms input lag or horrible black crush effect or slow pixel response or the screen only comes in 19inches or all of the above.

Or how about that new planar 26" ips panel where people are measuring it's contrast to be in the 400's.
 
Probably has a S-PVA and 30-45ms input lag = suxxor for gaming or a IPS and 24-32ms input lag.

6ms GTG 16ms BWB is also not very good, thats why I just ordered a TN panel with 3ms gtg and 5ms BWB.
 
R0achTheWarHero said:
Probably has a S-PVA and 30-45ms input lag = suxxor for gaming or a IPS and 24-32ms input lag.

6ms GTG 16ms BWB is also not very good, thats why I just ordered a TN panel with 3ms gtg and 5ms BWB.
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I don't know who pissed in your Cheerios but I for one am happy with my 20WMGX2 and I believe that it was worth the $470 I paid for it. The panel does show some banding in tests but I couldn't be happier with the colors in movies and games, not to mention the fast response time compared to my ancient 30ms Dell.

If you hate LCDs so much, then don't buy them. I wouldn't dream of purchasing another TN panel after having had 8-bit LCDs before and now a full-blown IPS model. If you prefer a fast response time at the expense of color depth then I'm sure you'll be happy with that TN.
 
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