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Summary: buy another brand -- any other brand
Review: I bought a Samsung 172N six months ago and will now be on my third unit. The first one lasted less than two weeks before permanent vertical lines began appearing. Fortunately it was within the retailer's return period so they gave me a new unit. The second one lasted until recently, when it instantly and irrevocably started displaying bands of vertical lines, and became super-bright with severe lagging and ghosting. There was no apparent cause for either problem. Most unfortunate of all, Samsung treats warranty/customer service requests as a game. I have been without a usable unit for two weeks, and still have no idea when the refurbished replacement unit will be shipped. Repair is not a good option since they only do repairs at one facility in the entire U.S., and can give no estimate whatsoever as to how long the repair will take. In my multiple conversations with them not one employee has expressed any degree of surprise that two brand new LCD displays have had these kinds of problems.
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Summary: A product of excellent value, considering ...
Review: i got this monitor after trying the cornea MP704b, and envision screen, as well as a sceptre x7. for the price (you need to hunt to get the best price on the web), this is the best i've found. text is very sharp, graphics look gorgeous, and response time is fantastic. wide viewing angles, too. this is a very nice lcd monitor. on the minus side, this does not have built in speakers (not a problem for most, since outboard speakers are generally better). highly recommended.
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Summary: SAMSUNG SyncMaster 172N 17" LCD Monitor
Review: i got this monitor after trying the cornea MP704b, and envision screen, as well as a sceptre x7. for the price (you need to hunt to get the best price on the web), this is the best i've found. text is very sharp, graphics look gorgeous, and response time is fantastic. wide viewing angles, too. this is a very nice lcd monitor. on the minus side, this does not have built in speakers (not a problem for most, since outboard speakers are generally better). highly recommended.
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Summary: A product of excellent value, considering ...
Review: The price shown will buy you a very good crt in the 19" diag. category. In the LCD display world, it only gets you a display with good but not great image quality, and at a 17" diag. size. Initially, the text quality looks blurry (not crisp) at normal font sizes. In windows, my recommendation is to go to EXTRA LARGE fonts on your desktop before your eyes do too much squinting. Over a period of time, the crispness of the display improves considerably, as your vision becomes accustomed to the LCD look vs CRT's.The colors are not too bad looking, and Samsung provides color management software for tweaking rgb and color temperature. There is also a brightness control with adequate range for well-lit and dark rooms. Unlike a CRT, this LCD panel is light as a feather and is energy efficient. There were no dead pixels and the display worked right out of the box. It seems reliable. Driver installation was simple and straightforward. The competition for your display dollar is fierce. CRTs are better (smoother) looking and cheaper. But they are gargantuan, generate heat, and over the course of time, they tend to defocus/blur. The very best (photo-realistic) lcd monitors, sold by Apple, are several times more expensive than Samsung. Samsung also makes a superior 17" monitor, but at a higher price point. You have to let your eyes and your budget decide.
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Summary: Gorgious Display
Review: This is a brilliant 17" monitor...as good as any in it's class. The only CRT I've seen looks as good (as this monitor's native resolution) is a Trinitron based montior. The others look dull by comparison...including Samsung's 17" and 19". There might a few advantages for a CRT, but this technology is simply the best in my opinion.
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Summary: Gorgious Display
Review: This is a brilliant 17" monitor...as good as any in it's class. The only CRT I've seen looks as good (as this monitor's native resolution) is a Trinitron based montior. The others look dull by comparison...including Samsung's 17" and 19". There might a few advantages for a CRT, but this technology is simply the best in my opinion.
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Summary: buy another brand -- any other brand
Review: This thing is awesome. I use a Samsung 171v at work. When my home monitor started to die, I thought a 171v would be nice. I started looking at all the models Samsung makes so a visit to there website was in order. This helped explain the letter part of the model number. 'N' is for narrow. 'V' is vesa compliant wall mount, which they all appear to be. S is slim and T is thin. These last two are essentially the same except one is VGA input only, the other is VGA/DVI. I would recommend any Samsung LCD display, but I especially like the 'N' due to the narrow frame around the display.
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Summary: Samsung 172N Rocks!
Review: This thing is awesome. I use a Samsung 171v at work. When my home monitor started to die, I thought a 171v would be nice. I started looking at all the models Samsung makes so a visit to there website was in order. This helped explain the letter part of the model number. 'N' is for narrow. 'V' is vesa compliant wall mount, which they all appear to be. S is slim and T is thin. These last two are essentially the same except one is VGA input only, the other is VGA/DVI. I would recommend any Samsung LCD display, but I especially like the 'N' due to the narrow frame around the display.
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