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(More customer reviews)I owned this monitor for 12 days before sadly deciding that I just couldn't keep it. The monitor looks great. The picture is sharp, bright, and beautiful. If you are the sort who will use your monitor only for desktop application work, then I can recommend this monitor. However, if you plan to watch any video or play any games then avoid it.
Samsung claims a 4ms refresh rate for this monitor. That is a marketing way of saying it's an 8ms model. This difference is in what is being measured. When monitors are listed as 8ms refresh models, the time refers to a pixel's on-off-on time. In this case, only the on-off time is being timed. However, that being said, the refresh stats can mislead anyway.
When I would watch recorded TV on this monitor, I would clearly see white trailing ghosts behind every moving object. Faces would wash out and become very bright. I played Half-Life 2 all the way through on this LCD, just to give it a fair test, and the results were poor.
As there are no buttons on this monitor (save the power button), all image adjustments are done with included software. The software is poorly designed, at best in my opinion. If you are running a firewall (I run ZoneAlarm), and you enter into the color adjustment app, after about a minute it will lock up an XP machine, requiring a reboot. Work around this by manually adding the software to your firewall's allowed list. I've read that the software is trying to look for IP address 0.0.0.0 and that causes the problem. Also the apps are rather large and they add about 3 icons to your quick launch tray.
I returned this monitor and exchanged it for the LG Flatron L1920P. A much better deal. I have only had this one a night, but after playing 10 levels of the same game, no ghosting. And the image is just as pretty.
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