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Summary: Samsung 210T
Review: Hi, I just got my 210T this weekend. I did a great deal of research before finally purchasing this monitor. One thing that I noticed was that there weren't that many reviews on this monitor which is what prompted me to write one. This is a truely great monitor. It allows you to connect many other devices to it other than your computer. I personally connected my PS2 and my cable box. You don't even need a tv tuner to get this monitor to broadcast tv signals. The picture in picture is a great feature which allows you to do work and watch tv or anything else you connect on a different source. Picture quality and brightness is exceptional. If you do get this monitor try and set it up digitally because it is much cleaner in my opinion.
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Summary: Samsung 210T
Review: Hi, I just got my 210T this weekend. I did a great deal of research before finally purchasing this monitor. One thing that I noticed was that there weren't that many reviews on this monitor which is what prompted me to write one. This is a truely great monitor. It allows you to connect many other devices to it other than your computer. I personally connected my PS2 and my cable box. You don't even need a tv tuner to get this monitor to broadcast tv signals. The picture in picture is a great feature which allows you to do work and watch tv or anything else you connect on a different source. Picture quality and brightness is exceptional. If you do get this monitor try and set it up digitally because it is much cleaner in my opinion.
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Summary: I'm in love.
Review: I previously was using a dual monitor setup with a Samsung 17" 170MP (Which I LOVE) and an NEC 1850X which was pretty good and I wanted just one monitor. Go buy this monitor. The color is great - you can see it from every angle, and it's HUGE. 1600 by 1200 res - Which you will want to use. The only things I can think of that are slightly negative is that I wish it was even HIGHER res - But I am a resolution junkie! ... and you don't really need the DVI cable - I have tried many times with both the VGA and DVI and they are both the same. NO DIFFERENCE. You WILL get compliments on this monitor - The most common is "Wow - That is a cool monitor!" I'm such a nerd for even doing the review - But I LOVE this monitor. PS: I am an IT Manager and know my fair share about computers - I went through 20+ monitors before plunking down the cash for this one.
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Summary: I'm in love.
Review: I previously was using a dual monitor setup with a Samsung 17" 170MP (Which I LOVE) and an NEC 1850X which was pretty good and I wanted just one monitor. Go buy this monitor. The color is great - you can see it from every angle, and it's HUGE. 1600 by 1200 res - Which you will want to use. The only things I can think of that are slightly negative is that I wish it was even HIGHER res - But I am a resolution junkie! ... and you don't really need the DVI cable - I have tried many times with both the VGA and DVI and they are both the same. NO DIFFERENCE. You WILL get compliments on this monitor - The most common is "Wow - That is a cool monitor!" I'm such a nerd for even doing the review - But I LOVE this monitor. PS: I am an IT Manager and know my fair share about computers - I went through 20+ monitors before plunking down the cash for this one.
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Summary: Big and Bright conventional format LCD monitor
Review: This monitor is huge. And bright. The contrast is amazing, and the colors don't budge with your eye in one corner of the monitor looking across it, so I can almost believe the 170 degree viewing angle claim. I find it works better a little further back than most LCDs I've been used to due to the relatively large pixel pitch resulting from 1600x1200 at 21.3" diagonal. Larger monitors further back are easier on the eyes because they don't require close focusing which causes strain. This monitor is the smaller sibling of the 240T, which is an otherwise identical monitor, with identical height and pixel size, but with a 24" diagonal at 1920x1200 resolution. My wife and I are both computer professionals, and we have one of each at home. For working on the computer, the 240T is almost too large, and the extra width is all but unusable because windows at the sides of the screen seem far away. This monitor, like the 240T, accepts S-Video and composite (not component) video input, and does a reasonable job of de-interlacing and scaling. The major difference is that the 240T is high enough resolution for full 1080 format HDTV (1920x1080 pixels, 16:9 letterbox aspect ratio), which can be input via either DVI or VGA. This monitor, the 210T, can only manage 1600x900 for letterbox; both run 1600x1200 for regular TV 4:3 aspect ratio. DVDs played through the computer's DVD player and scaled by a decent graphics card look much better than those coming from S-video when there aren't too many motion artifacts (see my review of WinDVD 4); but many DVDs play so poorly on PC home theater DVD players that I fall back on the regular DVD player through S-video fairly regularly. For computer connections, DVI input is much much sharper than VGA input; if you get this monitor, it's worth upgrading to a graphics card with DVI output. Contrary to the manuals of the monitors and graphics cards, both the Radeon 9000 Pro 128MB and the Radeon 9700 Pro 128MB model had no problem driving the 240T and 210T at their full resolutions in DVI mode at the monitor's native 60Hz refresh rate. I'd like to see Samsung's new DVD HD931 player that provides progressive format (de-interlaced) DVI output, which should be optimal for this monitor (and the 240T). The home theater review sites love the HD931 player and the whole concept of connecting via DVI. The only reason I don't have the DVD HD931 is that the monitor only has a single DVI input, and it's in an awkard, though space-saving, vertical arrangment. Turns out that DVI routers are expensive, so plugging in two DVI inputs to a single monitor doesn't seem practical yet. This is the black one; there's also a silver model.
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