Rating: 
Summary: Disappointingly overhyped.
Review: After using it for a week, I have to say I'm pretty disappointed with the 957MB. The reviews I scrounged up on the web were almost uniformly glowing (heh!), so I'm forced to conclude that they were using a different monitor or that they had low standards. Don't get me wrong -- the 957 MB isn't horrible -- but it definitely has some issues.The worst is that the sharpness is not uniform across the screen. When the sharpness settings are set so that text is clear in the center, the sides will be over-sharpened, creating highly annoying vertical artifacts that almost look like vertical scanlines. Needless to say, this hurts my impression of the image quality on the sides quite a bit. Turning the sharpness almost all the way down is the only way I found to eliminate them; of course, that makes the rest of the picture go to hell. The "MagicBright" modes are somewhat questionable as well. They are called "Text" "Internet" and "Entertain," in order of brightness. The latter two do a real job on on-screen text, making it too blurry to be acceptably legible. As a result, I exclusively use Text mode when using Windows. Only in games do the other two modes come in handy, and even then I usually avoid Entertain -- it's very, very bright. So, don't buy into the MagicBright hype. It's of limited use outside of games. Lastly, the color purity is somewhat lacking, and the monitor makes a bit more noise than I would like. A small but very noticeable hum or buzz is constantly emitted, and sometimes the monitor makes highly audible clicks and pops -- even after it's been off for a while! Odd. In short, I could have done better, but that's what I get for going with a $... monitor. Next time I shop for a screen, I'm going to spend a bit more money (and make sure my vendor has a satisfaction guarantee!) before making my purchase.
Rating: 
Summary: Great Monitor at a Great Price!
Review: Easy installation and great quality! What a value! Would highly reccomend this project for gaming and digital editing. Installed in a snap with Windows XP Pro. Did a lot of research in various publications this monitor constantly ranked at the top.
Rating:
Summary: Great Monitor at a Great Price!
Review: Easy installation and great quality! What a value! Would highly reccomend this project for gaming and digital editing. Installed in a snap with Windows XP Pro. Did a lot of research in various publications this monitor constantly ranked at the top.
Rating:
Summary: Not Dissapointed
Review: I give this monitor a five star rating even though I feel the price is a tad much. But hey, this is a very good monitor. I have the XP home os and after setting up the resolution and refresh rate the picture and text are simply great.Controls are of minimal use. Contrary to a previous review there is no distortion here and installation was a snap. I looked at many other monitors before deciding on this one and I am not dissapointed. I don't think you will be either.
Rating:
Summary: A great 19" monitor
Review: I just love this monitor. It also works with windows,mac,linux
and unix (a very important thing for me). Has a cool magic
bright feature which changes screen color intensity for
DVDs,Text,Presentations etc as desired. Very high resolutions and
refresh rates possible. Excellent for home use.Plus amazon sells
it for just $ 278, no shipping charges or taxes. A great deal
over all.
Rating:
Summary: Overall best 19" CRT in my opinion
Review: I own a DELL Inspiron with UXGA resolution I use it for Graphics design,Programming and watch DVD movies. It was tough for me to read code off my inspiron screen @ these high resolutions. So I was planning for a year to buy the best monitor that would suffice my needs. Did quite a bit of monitor research before the purchase 'coz I did not want to end up with a lousy monitor attached to my laptop (extremely good configuration - ...). My electronics degree came in handy for this comparing game and after two weeks found this monitor to be good buy.(Though I think samsung shd reduce the price of this monitor atleast to [price]).
With this purchase Im satisfied so far and Quality of the images are very good for the price. The configuration is a snap (No setup disks) and once I tuned the color temperatures and other settings I did not look back at all.
Final one liner - This piece delivers all my expectations for a Home office. Im happy with the purchase hence the 5*s.
Rating: 
Summary: Excellent Monitor
Review: I purchased this monitor to replace a 17" that I've been using since 1995. I spent quite a bit of time researching monitors on the web and this monitor consistently got high marks; one of the popular PC magazines gave it a "Best Buy" recommendation. Set up was a snap and the driver CD was not required for Windows XP, pure "Plug-n-Play". The picture is crisp, due to a high level of resolution and a bright display -- one of the brightest I've ever seen (the Magic Bright feature is very nice). The monitor supports a number of resolutions and is capable of very high refresh rates, so there's no flicker to tire your eyes. Overall, I'm very pleased with the purchase.
Rating:
Summary: Overrated--maybe I should return mine...
Review: I purchased this monitor to replace a 17" that I've been using since 1995. I spent quite a bit of time researching monitors on the web and this monitor consistently got high marks; one of the popular PC magazines gave it a "Best Buy" recommendation. Set up was a snap and the driver CD was not required for Windows XP, pure "Plug-n-Play". The picture is crisp, due to a high level of resolution and a bright display -- one of the brightest I've ever seen (the Magic Bright feature is very nice). The monitor supports a number of resolutions and is capable of very high refresh rates, so there's no flicker to tire your eyes. Overall, I'm very pleased with the purchase.
Rating:
Summary: Excellent Monitor
Review: I purchased this monitor to replace a 17" that I've been using since 1995. I spent quite a bit of time researching monitors on the web and this monitor consistently got high marks; one of the popular PC magazines gave it a "Best Buy" recommendation. Set up was a snap and the driver CD was not required for Windows XP, pure "Plug-n-Play". The picture is crisp, due to a high level of resolution and a bright display -- one of the brightest I've ever seen (the Magic Bright feature is very nice). The monitor supports a number of resolutions and is capable of very high refresh rates, so there's no flicker to tire your eyes. Overall, I'm very pleased with the purchase.
Rating: 
Summary: Poor quality overall
Review: I read all the glowing reviews on all the other sites and really was excited to get a hold of this monitor. Installation was a snap and material is high quality. BUT.. the display quality is ABSOLUTELY unacceptable for anyone doing graphic work or photo-retouching. I quickly switched back to my 19" Sony G400 (4 year old) within a few days and waiting to return this monitor tomorrow. Definitely not worth the money. Problems were: -vertical artifacts on the sides of the screen
-VERY bad convergence.. long horizontal dashed lines did not line up straight
-Things are too sharp on the edges and too fuzzy in the middle Just horrible to use for someone who works in graphic design. And for those who can quickly tell what is good or bad, you will be severely disappointed. If you are a gamer, you might be okay with it.
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