Samsung 2693HM

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I work as a teacher in Korea. My used 22" HP 1230 CRT has gone wonky on me. Plus, I'm getting eye-strain after years of using CRTs here for text reading and work. So I decided to make the jump to a LCD.

Having no credit card (tax reasons) I pretty much wanted to buy a monitor from the electronics market area. However, turns out that they tend to just stock 22" and lower and even Koreans order the bigger monitors online. Lacking the aforementioned credit-card, and with negligible Korean skills, getting a monitor this way would have been a pain. The last time I got one I had a Korean-speaking girlfirned to borker things for me.

To make a long story short, the only 24" name-brand monitors I saw were these Samsung 2493HM ones. I liked how they looked and felt - not much lag I could feel. But I couldn't find any write-ups for them. On a whim, I just bought the 25.5" 2693HM one for ~ $650 . I'll be hooking it up tomorrow when I get time.

Has anyone heard anything about them? Any idea why they aren't reviewed at all?
 
I think they are fairly new to the market. Plus, you live in Korea so you get new electronics before we do in the USA. However, I am certain that your display is a TN panel, judging by the view angles and GtG time. But as long as the black light bleed is uniform and/or non-existent, it should be a nice display, especially compared to your CRT. I find that LCDs have a much softer look to them versus CRTs which causes eye-strain.
 
Yeah I tend to be the only one using it - so I don't mind the viewing angle as it is right in front of me. TN provides a nice balance of response time for my gaming with price and then movie watching. Obviously, there are better monitors. But for $650, 25.5" seemed decent esp. considering it doesn't feel as laggy as the PVA 24" Sony 244 and 245 models I tried out.
 
Hello, my first post. Been lurking here for some time as I'm in the market for a new display between 24" - 27".

This seems like a good display with HDMI,DVI-D and D-Sub support. It looks as though it is a TN panel. But anyway, I would like to learn more.

Here's what I found googling around.

Product: http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/content/EM/200711/20071128184939312/EN/MAIN.HTM

Photos: http://detail.zol.com.cn/131/130929/pic.shtml

Panel Info: http://detail.zol.com.cn/picture_index_166/index1655899.shtml
 
I'm a pretty bad person to get an opinion from.

I really don't know that much about computers - esp. about monitors.

I was really into gaming 2 years ago when I first got to Korea and I had a lot of free time. So based on some internet reading I found myself a slightly pre-enjoyed 22" trinitron CRT and really liked it. But it has started to go fuzzy a bit, and its brightness level starts randomly flickering from time to time. No idea what it is. But getting it fixed just isn't worth it when you factor in that CRTs and text have been straining my eyes.

So I have done a little reading on LCDs. The PVA? Samsung Panels had nicer color, but just felt too slow for me as I still want to do some gaming. The NEC IPS ones would probably be sweet - but seem kinda expensive. I liked this one for the price from what I saw - but still, it was a bit of an impulse buy. I may well have screwed myself. But I just am not enough of a connoisseur to know if I have or not. I'm not one to by color meters and calibrate my own monitors or be able to compare all the different opions.

I basically know if the input lag is too much and if it looks pretty enough for me to enjoy TV and movies on it. The 2693 felt faster than a 244 or 245 PVA Samsung I tried. And its colors were close enough. I could see a viewing angle difference between the PVA and TN panel - but it didn't make much difference when both were right in front of me. And that is where it will be on my desk. I guess the PVA would definitely be nicer if I had say 3-4 guests over watching a movie all at different angles. But with just me or me and my girffriend sitting directly in front of it and at eye level, I'm not sure if viewing angle will be a big deal.

Also, wouldn't a 26" IPS be pretty price?
 
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