Friday, March 28, 2008

Samsung 226BW (Black) LCD Monitor Review


Product Description

Imagine having elbow room on the screen. That's exactly what you get with the Samsung BW wide range of LCD monitors. 16:10 Wide aspect ratios allow you to juggle, with room for more than one application at a time. The extra room is also working with graphics and multiple programs palletes tool easier. An ultra-fast 2 ms (G to G) response time is perfect for animated graphics editing. MagicBright 3 and exclusive, MagicColor ™ ™ ™ technology MagicTune and give you full control over the colors exceptional. All colors. All rooms. With the Samsung BW series, it's not hard to imagine.

Consideration
The purchase of this monitor is like buying a pack of baseball cards, because you do not know what is inside until you open it. Keep reading and you will see what I mean.

I just bought a new HP desktop and needed a monitor to go with him. At the store where I bought both, they were offering a discount of $ 140 for the purchase of a PC and the two Monitor. It happened at the end of the evening on the very last day of the submission of the bid, so I jumped at the offer. I know that perhaps I could have saved $ 20-40 ordering to follow the same line, but I should have expected that ship and not been able to use my new office, as well as the reimbursement package good deal. After shopping in the store for what was available in stock, I chose the Samsung SyncMaster 226bw 22 "Widescreen LCD Monitor. Was three weeks ago.

When I got home and hung, I immediately noticed that the monitor has an odd number of flicker. The flicker appeared to come and go, sometimes, and was significantly worse when you look at a screen of a solid color, like the black background on a website. At the time, I connect the monitor to the computer using VGA cables go to the video embedded on the motherboard. It also followed a DVI connection and includes a cable, but I would not use it for another week.

Let me say that I am not entirely unhappy with this monitor, because the display is always incredibly bright and the colors are vibrant. He is believed to have a 2ms refresh rate, which is incredibly fast, and I admit that I have not seen any kind of problem when playing ghosting fast 3D games. Even so, that the whole thing just flicker bugs me. The monitor supports a 60hz refresh rate, and there is no way to change it. In the past, when I saw the problems flicker on a monitor, usually adjust the refresh rate will fix it, but this is not an option on this monitor.

I figured flicker was just part of the novelty of the screen, and it will disappear after it warms up, but he did not. I tried everything I could to adjust video settings every possible way that I could, and even if I did make the flicker less visible, it was still readable. So I decided to Google search for this model monitor and see if someone else had similar problems flicker. A search of Samsung 226bw flicker of 11200 results. Yikes! Apparently, I was not the only one to have this problem.

At that time, the store was already closed and it was too late to take it back that night. I was also stuck in the difficult position of invalidating my rebate if I exchanged since the screen to another, it would show up on another reception. Part of the subsidy rules specify that they must be purchased together and show on the same receipt. If I had taken this monitor back the next day, I ran the risk of not obtaining reimbursement, and then I would have been really angry. So I was stuck with this monitor, otherwise I would have to eat $ 140 in rebates and my whole PC / Monitor package would not have been this big a deal.

Since I planned upgrade the video card, and that the new video cards using the DVI connection, I decided to wait and see if this is an improvement. A week later, when I put an MSI Nvidia GeForce 8400 GS video card in the PC and plugged DVI cables, the problem of flicker has been drastically reduced. However, there are still flickers from time to time. It is not nearly as visible or as often as before, but it still happens, and it aggravates the hell out of me.

While researching the problem of flicker on Google, I understand why some people hate this monitor and complain about problems such as flickering while other people say it is the biggest game on track market, and there's nothing better. What I discovered I was burning the factory down-crazy Samsung.

Here's what I discovered: There are three different versions of this monitor on the market. Not one or two, but three. These three are not alike, either. The box similar. The price is the same. The supposed features are the same, but the monitor is not the same thing. The only way to tell which one of the three you is to open the box and look at the back of the monitor to read the serial number. When you look at the rear, in the upper right corner of the silvery white sticker with the model and serial number, you will see either an A, S or C.

Samsung's first line of 226bw instructors were excellent and received rave reviews. When a company releases a product, that is the first line-up which is reviewed in technical magazines and others, as they send free products to a large number of locations under consideration. After Samsung has obtained all the good reviews, they subcontracted the manufacturing of this monitor to other companies to make cheaper models. The cheaper models do not work quite as well as the original line-up, and cheaper models are basically knock-off of the original superiority. There is a link at the bottom of this review that will provide you with all the details on how very different from the A, S and C can be role models, and the differences are very visible.

The model that I ended up being the group C, which is not yet made by Samsung. The group C is typically what you find in most retail stores, like the one where I bought it. The C panels are manufactured by a Chinese company called Chi Mei.

What Samsung did with this monitor was very dirty business. They changed manufacturers and allowed someone else to produce a cheaper version of the same monitor, but Samsung kept the same model number and everything. This means that two people can buy a Samsung monitor 226bw into a store and you can get well-made Samsung and the other person can get the cheaper knock-off. The two people are willing to pay the same price, but they will not provide the same quality of the monitor. This kind of thing sometimes happens on eBay, where unscrupulous people mislabel certain products and hope nobody will notice, but I can not believe a large company like Samsung would do such a thing. Samsung should have at least put some kind of label on the outside of the box to let customers know what is inside.

In the past, I returned after a 42 "Samsung Plasma TV because the image quality was so horrible about him that I could not stand 'get used to it' considering what I paid for that. He watched the cartoon showing fine in the store, but she could not make dyed with a value flip. In addition, while last weekend my two months Samsung cell phone screen broken. After what has happened with this monitor, I will never buy another product Samsung again. What they ripped from the SyncMaster 226bw is inexcusable. If you really wanted to go into the legality of it all, this amounts to misleading advertising to the extent that they are a single product while spying sell you another.

The bottom line is that their clients cheated with the Samsung SyncMaster monitor 226bw. Do not take the gamble on this monitor. Just buy a brand of confidence. Samsung Boycott!

The people of BeHardware.com have done a thorough review of the three types (A, S and C) Samsung 226bw screens, and you can read their findings to the link below.
Http: / / www.behardware.com/articles/667-1/samsung-226bw-series-as-verdict.html


Recommended:
N

Amount paid (USD): 350
Operating system: Windows

0 komentar: