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Summary: Great Monitor - Great Service
Review: My huband bought this monitor for me as a gift. He specifically bought this model due to the software included & the built-in ability to spin the monitor in any direction. We tried it out spun 90 degrees - portrait mode vs. the traditional landscape - and love it. We haven't spun it back. It is absolutely great for surfing the web - more of the web page fits on the screen vertically. It is also wonderful for reading any traditionally formatted documents, letters, etc. You can see the entire document on the screen, vs. just the top half. I also love the 19" size. Very easy to get attached to. I'm not an expert in graphics, but the image is sharp, there aren't any blown out pixels, etc. The monitor was SO easy to set up. Just plug it in & run the CD with the pivot software & you're ready to go. Love the monitor. Get one yourself!
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Summary: Great monitor - love the spin!
Review: My huband bought this monitor for me as a gift. He specifically bought this model due to the software included & the built-in ability to spin the monitor in any direction. We tried it out spun 90 degrees - portrait mode vs. the traditional landscape - and love it. We haven't spun it back. It is absolutely great for surfing the web - more of the web page fits on the screen vertically. It is also wonderful for reading any traditionally formatted documents, letters, etc. You can see the entire document on the screen, vs. just the top half. I also love the 19" size. Very easy to get attached to. I'm not an expert in graphics, but the image is sharp, there aren't any blown out pixels, etc. The monitor was SO easy to set up. Just plug it in & run the CD with the pivot software & you're ready to go. Love the monitor. Get one yourself!
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Summary: A treat for the eyes
Review: Nice monitor, with two interfaces (analog & dvi), easy to setup and use; no dead pixels. Brightness is perfect and contrast is nice. I recommend it.
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Summary: Super looking monitor, part II
Review: Nice monitor, with two interfaces (analog & dvi), easy to setup and use; no dead pixels. Brightness is perfect and contrast is nice. I recommend it.
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Summary: A treat for the eyes
Review: Nice monitor, with two interfaces (analog & dvi), easy to setup and use; no dead pixels. Brightness is perfect and contrast is nice. I recommend it.
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Summary: ...
Review: One, it's BIG on screen size. Two, the bezel is NOT BIG. Three, it pivots. Four, DVI. Five, it is CHEAPER than than you think. Dell has a $16 billion agreement with Samsung, which includes sharing of LCD technology. Hence, the Dell 1900FP *IS* the Samsung 191T. ...If you are considering this monitor, go down to CompUSA and watch a movie on it. See if you notice the "ghosting". Ask them to connect it to a real computer there, and test it out yourself. They'll do it if they think they're getting a sale, it's pretty easy you'll find.
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Summary: Head of the class for 19" LCDs
Review: Samsung 191T 19" LCD Monitor Review
Friday, November 22, 2002 I love my new 191T. Some history. I had previously used a 21" Mitsubishi 91TXM [aperture grill model] since 1996 till this year when it started flaking out and fluctuating in brightness. I decided to get my feet wet in the LCD world in March 2002 with the best bang for the buck 15" monitor at the time. That was the KDS Rad-5. The KDS performed admirably; it showed me the wonders of no more eye strain when using a TFT monitor. Some niggling concerns emerged over time of course w/ an entry level monitor like this: there was no portrait swivel [though I did splurge for a stand alone stand that does it], no DVI connection, 35ms refresh rate, colors were not as saturated and vibrant as a CRT. I had been monitoring the 19" LCD segment for some time, waiting for an appropriate price point / performance convergence. That came when I saw the multiple award winning Samsung 191T hit [money]. Monitors are about the only things I tend to buy locally, and my CompUSA had a few of these. So I carted it home, pleasantly amused that I could carry it briefcase style in one hand, remembering my battles moving around of the 21" Mitsubishi. After unpacking, I connected the cables up to my Matrox Parhelia 512. The Matrox has a DVI output which allowed me to go straight Digital to Digital w/out the need for an analogue conversion step. I hooked up my KDS to the second head of the Parhelia and the third head to my Apex 20" TV. First thing I noticed after getting the drivers installed was w/ the DVI connection, all monitor adjustments including color temp. are 'taken care of' for you. I knew this obliquely from reading all the reviews, you cannot alter geometry and other settings in DVI mode. That's fine because, damn, it looks good.The 191T's native resolution is 1280x1024x32x60HZ. I have never run at 1280 before because on my Mitsubishi it made things too small and caused even more eye strain. I was leery about how things would look on the TFT since the KDS runs at 1024x768 natively which I also use to run the Mitsu. However, my fears were unfounded, the text looks great, it's still 96DPI in WinXP but I don't have any problem reading it on the 191T which is great. Second thing I noticed compared to the KDS was that the colors were extremely vibrant and saturated. This was a gripe w/ the KDS. The contrast on the 191T is 500:1, on the KDS it's 350:1 so this is very noticeable in Mame32 vertical games where if you play in landscape mode, you've got the two black 'letterbox' bars on each side of the image. The Samsung is brighter than my CRT, it's really beautiful to watch a game with strong colors like the CPS2 Vampire series, or Last Blade. Another claim to fame for the 191T is its super thin bezel, as can be seen in these images, it's extremely elegant and well laid out. The base allows for rotation so games can be played in portrait mode if desired. Sad to say, I actually find myself being too lazy to actually rotate it; so they're played in the old style in landscape. Refresh times are spec'ed at less than 25ms. The lower the refresh rate, the less likely the ghosting effect that continues to plague LCDs to some degree. I found the 191T to be little better than the KDS, the degree of betterness, heh, perhaps affected by the larger amount of pixels that need to be pushed around. All said, it's personal preference and tolerance level for the ghosting, I don't think it's that bad since I only play Mame32 and Links 2003, a golf game which is static. I have been extremely impressed with this monitor so far, I've quickly gotten used to having more onscreen real estate in my daily work as well. The jump from 1024x768 to 1280x1024 affords a nice increase in visibility. This monitor is a current top performer in its bracket, I don't have any trouble recommending it.
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Summary: LCD Technology Has Some Limitations
Review: Some else reviewed this monitor before me and complained that at resolutions other than 1280x1024 the text was blurry. Well, guess what? That's normal for this LCD. In fact, all LCD have the same issue, let me explain. All LCD monitors have what's called a "native resolution". The native resolution is the resolution the monitor was built, designed, and meant to be used at. If you use it at any other resolution you get lower performance, like blurry text, ghosting and other issues. When you use the monitor correctly by running it at it's native resolution of 1280x1024 with a 60Hz refresh rate, everything will look perfect. Trying to use the monitor at any other resolution other that the native resolution for that particular LCD will not hurt the monitor, but you will notice things look a bit blurry. It's a limitation of LCD technology, not of this particular monitor, all LCDs have this limitation! I have the Dell 1900FP, which is just a relabeled 191T. I was lucky enough to get a monitor with no stuck pixels and I love this thing. Since I run it at it's native resolution it has razor sharp text. It is much brighter than my old CRT monitor was. Geometry and other problems with the picture filling the whole screen are non-existent due to the auto-adjust button which automaticaaly adjusts the screen to fill the entire screen. I occasionally notice some ghosting while playing games like Quake3, but it's not really that bad. Considering what I've seen on some other LCD monitors, the ghosting on the 191T is not a problem. This is another LCD technology limitation that occurs with all of the larger LCDs made today. Until the response time of LCD monitors drop on larger LCDs you will be able to notice "ghosting". Even so I didn't find it to be a problem on this monitor. The thin bezel is a big plus and once I have the money I will be picking up a second 191T. I've seen others with three of these monitors in triple-head and is looks very nice. The thin bezel makes it possible to watch DVDs and play games in multi-monitor setups and have it look ok.
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Summary: Do you beleive in love at first site? I do now!
Review: This LCD screen is the most beautifull thing i have ever laid eyes on. The image is crisp and sharp. The movie quality is outstanding. There is no ghosting problems. I can't think of one thing i don't like about this monitor. The price is steep i was concerned about spending that much at first. But now i wouldn't trade it for the world. If you can't afford one. Put one of the kids for sale on ebay and get this monitor you won't be disappointed.
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Summary: Amazing display!!
Review: This monitor has the best image I've seen on an LCD monitor. Colors are more vivid, whites are brighter, and blacks are darker than every CRT and LCD monitor I've seen. This model has a great contrast and visability from a wide viewing-angle. You don't need to look directly at the monitor to see the image, which is very nice. The tight bezel around the outside of the screen makes the monitor itself look small, altough the image size is *LARGE*. If you're not using a monitor close to this size, moving the mouse will take some getting used to as you'll need to drag further to get from one corner to the other, but it's a small sacrafice to make! You can't go wrong with this model.
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