Samsung SyncMaster 940B 19" LCD Monitor- Black

List Price: $399.99

Features:

• 19-inch analog and digital TFT-LCD
• 700:1 high contrast ratio
• 1280 x 1024 resolution
• 160/160 degree viewing angle
• Built-in power supply

Accessories:

3-Year Extended Service Plan - Covers Electronic Items $201-$500 - Repair

Customer Reviews:

Too much trouble to adjust and configure [Posted on 2006-01-19]
Pros: If you can ever get the color setting correct, it's a nice display.

Cons: I have spent hours and hours playing around with the color, brightness and contrast settings and it's still not right. Also, the display is so bright that colors looks washed out with no contrast.

If you want a plug-and-play monitor, don't buy this one. I wanted it for general business use and Web dev and it just eats up my time to get a decent picture. My previous LCDs (NEC, KDS) I could unpack, plug in and have the OPTION to play with the settings. This display REQUIRES that you configure it and it eats up way too much time. I have been unable to strike a balance between good color and brightness/contrast. It's particularly bad with applications (Outlook, IE, Foxfire, FrontPage, Word, etc.). I feel like I want everything bold so I can see it better.

Wonderful 19" LCD Monitor [Posted on 2006-01-23]
I can't help not writing a review after reading the previous 1-star review. I bought this one during Christmas sales. I love it right away after I plugged it in. I used a eVGA 6200 graphics card with DVI output. I don't need to adjust any color settings and it already looks gorgeous. The resolution is so sharp and colors are so vivid. I love the Magic Color button which allows you to choose from a list of preset color settings. Very easy to use. I usually choose a brighter setting in the morning and a dimmer one at night. I use a Dell 1905FP at work and I have to admit that 940B is a better monitor than 1905FP. And cheaper too. The only disadvantage is that 1905FP has a very nice height-adjustable stand. The one coming with the 940B looks a bit cheap, but functional. I'm looking foward to buying a wall-mount LCD stand for my 940B :) To make it more convincing to you, I want to tell you that I love this monitor so much that I already bought a 2nd one for my wife. And you can guess her reaction :)

Great Display [Posted on 2006-02-28]
First off let me say that reviewer J. Burke is either clueless or got a bad monitor. I love mine. The colors are clear and bright and image is clear and smooth in games like Battlefield 2. Text looks great too, as I am a web designer and programmer and look at code often. I also have the 930B at work which is also a very good LCD display. Overall, I think Samsung is top notch. Between work and home I've been around 8 Samsung LCD's and not a single one had a bad pixel. My only complaint is that samsung needs to stop being cheap-skates and include a DVI cable in the box.

Wow, super nice! [Posted on 2006-03-03]



No dead pixels, brain-dead setup and clean crisp picture.

The color of the monitor was spot on out of the box using one of the pre-sets.

I fired up the Color-Magic software that it came packaged with...But then thought "Why fiddle"? It looked great as it was. I can see how people can get all screwed up by messing with the colors too much (Did that when I got my TV). The interface for Color-Magic is not the most intuitive when it comes to adjusting the color. "Close eyes half way and adjust inner-squares to match the outside" Sounds easy but if you saw it, you'd know what I mean.

The only adjustments I did were, brightness (you need sunglasses with the default setting), sharpness and contrast.

It does NOT come with a DVI-D cable, just an old analog RGB cable...If your video card supports it, use a DVI-D cable. Digital display + Digital Cable + Digital output from video card= Niiiccce! It can run in analog mode but then...well you know.

Don't spend $60 on a DVI-D cable...Go to Newegg.com and get a 6' one for $12.95 (at time of this writing). Also, the monitor takes a male-end cable, check your card to be sure what cable end it needs (most likely male too). A male-male cable is what worked for my setup.

Been doing some gaming on it and let me just say that things never looked better. Super sharp and crisp images and with a 8MS....no ghosting (as some CRT loyalists will try to convince you of).

So all said and done...

Pros

1. Uses half the electricity of a CRT
2. MUCH smaller footprint than a CRT (more room on my desk now!)
3. Almost zero heat out-put compared to CRTs...I'm gonna love that come summer
4. Less eye strain and headaches
5. Better picture, IMHO.

Cons

1. The base is limited in adjustability.
2. Doesn't come with a DVI-D cable.
3. Three hours cleaning the computer desk/room to make way for it.
4. Trying to pawn off your old CRT.

So yeah, this is a nice monitor but keep in mind that I'm running it on a Geforce TI4600 128MB card. Yeah, it's not a high-end SLI PCI Express blah blah blah card, but it's a respectably good gaming card no matter what the snobs say. That being said, your quality of picture may not be as nice if you are using an old on-board video output or an ancient video card. Not that it's going to be bad, you just might not rave over it. You can get a descent video card for under a hundred dollars, just stick with Nvidia and you can't go wrong.

I would have given it 5 stars if made toast...But you can't have every thing. *Shrugs*

Love it [Posted on 2006-10-22]
I bought the Samsung SyncMaster 940B in silver from a different retailer and its a great monitor. I work with dell flat screens at my job and I was amazed at how much brighter and sharper than the ones at work. I wasn't happy with the place I bought it from because they didn't send me any manuals, drivers , or anything. The good thing is that I was able to go on the Samsung website and download all the drivers and the manual that is why I chose Samsung over any other because I have had good experience with Samsung.

Click here for more details and discount information...