Customer Reviews

Samsung 933SN 18.5-Inch Widescreen LCD Monitor with Rich Piano Black Finish

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After reading dozens of reviews on this site and others, as well as viewing the monitor in person in 3 different stores, I purchased this monitor this afternoon. First off, the Dynamic Contrast spec has been bumped up from 15K:1 to 50K:1, and it shows. Really great punch, yet very natural looking colors, text really pops off the screen. And no dead pixels (yay!).

Also, the monitor base now comes partially pre-assembled. The "egg-shaped" part and the stem or post is already attached - now all that's needed is to screw the actual base onto the stem/post, with an attached folding-key type thumbscrew - all done in less than 30 seconds. Not exactly the widest range of tilt is available, but sufficient.

One warning for those who might be visually comparing monitors in stores - first, request that the monitor being considered be taken off a slide-show or other demo-mode visual, just request to see the standard desktop. Check the text beneath the icons for sharpness, ghosting, color fringes, etc. Also, bear in mind that multi-monitor feeds (a whole string of displays showing the same thing) introduce a great deal of line loss, severely diminshing display sharpness and clarity. And second, at least with Windows 7, the Clear Type text adjustment can make a HUGE difference in text clarity. Be sure and run this adjustment upon installation of the new monitor.

After trying HP's 2009m and 2338h (the first was excellent but overpriced IMHO and the second exhibited horribly uneven backlight spill in the lower right area of the screen), Dell's IN1910N (yuck!) and Asus' VH232H (excellent, but too big for my desktop), at $100 (OD in-store sale from flyer), this one's the charm!

I have purchased 2 of these refurbished Samsung monitors and they both are top notch!!! I liked the first one so much I bought another one for my home office also.

I've always been a fan of Samsung products. All I needed the monitor for was as a secondary monitor for my recording projects. Nothing fancy. The color and picture is very clear. The auto-adjust is kind of weird that it gives you almost waves of sharpness and smoothness. I don't know, maybe I'm overlooking something. But overall, it gets the job done. I would recommend it to anyone, although one should consider going larger if they can, luckily 18.5" was all I was looking for, due to lack of available space for anything larger.

This monitor looks beautiful next to my iMac. The rich piano black finish is definitely something to look forward to! The display itself is also of beautiful quality, providing great color reproduction. The price here on Amazon ain't bad either!!

The monitor is fine once you are able to attach the base to the monitor. Both my husband and I struggled with the assembly and the misleading directions. Samsung customer service was useless. During the first call I was told they cannot stay on the phone to guide us through the process and we should refer to the directions on the disk that came with the unit. I reminded her that seeing the disk required the use of the monitor which was not yet functioning. During the second call they admitted they had no practical assembly experience - they had only the info available to the customers. Finally, our son, who is a genius, figured out a way that made much more sense than any of the company's suggestions. He popped the egg-shaped part of the base into the monitor and then assembled the two base parts. Whew!

I recently purchased this product, Samsung 18.5 widescreen LCD monitor and it is GREAT. I have some other Samsung products and they are all super buys. The picture is clear, colors vivid and it is exactly what I wanted. The price at Amazon was also super...plus it had a mfg rebate. Can't get better than that.

This is a really nice monitor for the price. I got it to go with a Mac Mini and it works great. The viewing angles are not as good as my NEC but that is to be expected. It looks good due to it's piano black finish and simple design. Satisfied customer.

I mainly bought this monitor as a spare, but ended up replacing an Acer monitor that I was using mostly for reading. It has better contrast and brighter white than other monitors. Other LCD monitors I have appear more yellow than white. I have it mounted on a movable wall mount so I didn't use the cheap pedestal mount. The friction mount feels and looks cheap, and doesn't offer much adjustment. Samsung really seems to produce superior monitors and TV's.

The monitor was a great price and looks nice. The stand is really short and not adjustable - I put it on top of a big book (and it still wasn't high enough) and it ruined its sleek lines. It is nice and clear although it is a little too wide compared to the height as far as I am concerned.

Shipping was reasonably fast.

PLUG and PLAY gave me a very old generic Microsoft driver for this display and it was not quite right. I tried autorun on the SyncMaster CD that was supplied and it started and then hung in a browser window with strange characters (don't know what lauguage in the title bar), even though I had selected English. I tried again - same results.

I went into the control panel and tried to have the device manager discover the correct driver from the CD. This did not work either - it just kept searching and never found the driver on the CD. Finally I had to install the driver manually from the CD and then everything was fine. Took much longer than it should have to get it set up.

Bought a used one and i pretty much what i got what i pay for. Decent monitor though...very sleek and looks just like my 32 inch TV.