Samsung FX2490HD 24-Inch HDTV LED Monitor (Brown)

by Samsung

Product Details

• Item Weight: 15.9 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 16.8 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0047A94ZQ
• Item model number: FX2490HD
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,641 in Computers & Accessories (See Top 100 in Computers & Accessories)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 15, 2010

Product Description

Samsung’s FX2490HD 24" LED Monitor is the ultimate multimedia display. Its built-in HDTV tuner lets you watch TV without a cable box. Picture-in-picture lets you watch TV and work simultaneously. Images are gorgeous, with full HD 1920 x 1080 resolution, 5ms (GTG) response time and 5,000,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio.

Customer Reviews

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20 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars BEST ALL AROUND ENTERTAINMENT MONITOR OF 2010!!!!!, December 11, 2010

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TRONXL - See all my reviews

This review is from: Samsung FX2490HD 24-Inch HDTV LED Monitor (Brown) (Electronics)

First I think this monitor deserved a better score than three and half stars from cnet.com. Eric Franklin always does this wobble movement test on monitors. I understand that a monitor needs to not only feel like it is made of high quality materials, but unless you live in a high earthquake area or have a lot of children running around knocking over stuff. I don't think he should take away from the monitor by hitting the side of it to test the movement of the monitor. I don't think people plan on knocking over there monitors. In the review he did for the HP w2408h he criticized the monitor's rotating feature because the picture did not rotate. First your PC, laptop or internet device has to have this feature or be able to use that feature for the picture to rotate. So I would say the monitor was not hooked up to a device capable of that. Most monitors don't rotate anyway or at least most people use regular monitors that may only lean forward, back, turn left and right or raise up and down. Even though the Samsung FX2490HD does not raise up and down and only tilts back a little and not that much forward, most people aren't going to be looking at a monitor from the floor or ceiling. Plus if that is the case a lot of monitors can be wall mounted like most HDTV's. I don't like the fact that he knocks it for not having a DVI connection. I understand that most PC gamers need this to view their games at a higher quality, but most HDTVs, monitors even PC's or laptops, cameras, and other various electronics that use cables require you to purchase higher quality cables to get the best picture or video possible anyway. And sure some eletronics include the cables or connections that people want but most don't have everything included. And also some PC's DVI output often do not support HDMI audio so the owner of the PC would have to buy an extra cable or adapter anyway.
I DID NOT see any green tent or color when watching a HD DVD, Blu-Ray DVD & DVD movie during playback! And that was before I decided to mess with the calibration options on this monitor. And with almost any HDTV/Monitor or video/picture type electronics the user often with have to calibrate it to their liking so I don't see how this monitor could be knocked for that.
My Cons: The design of the Samsung FX2490HD is very slim and styish, but the design also makes this monitor appear smaller than other 24in monitors in it's class even though it is a 24in monitor that is larger than most stock monitors that people purchase.
Here is the monitor page as well as the Full Spec sheet page info: [...]
One fact is that the correct Full Resolution is: 1920x1080p not 1920x1440 and the correct Dynamic Contrast Ratio is:5,000,000:1 not 1,000,000:1
I confirmed this through a chat session on the Samsung website and through looking at the real Spec sheet, which I put a link up for this in my pros section for this monitor. My experience with this monitor so far has been Excellent. I couldn't ask for a better monitor!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brand New Toy! FX2490HD, January 5, 2011

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Jeremiah Fleming "Neuro" (San Diego) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Samsung FX2490HD 24-Inch HDTV LED Monitor (Brown) (Electronics)

I spent a long time browsing the web searching for the perfect Monitor/TV combo and could never find a product that excelled at both functions. Finally i stumbled upon this beauty. Once amazon had it back in stock (which saved me tax, shipping and the CA recycling fee) i ordered the FX2490HD. It arrived 2 days later and boy was i happy.

As other reviewers have said, right out of the box the color needs a bit of tweaking. Not too hard and definitely worth it to get a beautiful picture. Honestly looks better than the 50" Samsung at home. The PIP is a bit out of the way, but still a nice feature to have. I love the multimedia USB port and haven't found the viewing angles to be too bad, but i'm not picky about that. Haven't found anything i'm unhappy with, but an included HDMI cable would have been nice. Can't get everything i want i guess, but other than that i can truly say i am impressed and very satisfied with the product.

A good buy in my opinion, especially from Amazon.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An awesome, low-priced all-in-one TV Monitor of high-end quality, December 25, 2010

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Edinjazz (NEW YORK, NY, US) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Samsung FX2490HD 24-Inch HDTV LED Monitor (Brown) (Electronics)

I have just got my new Samsung FX2490HD 24-Inch HDTV LED Monitor (Brown) up and running and what can I say - its KILLING! The picture quality in TV, browsing, Netflix, and such is stunning - it has tons of adjustable parameters, much more customizable and much more vivid, than most, or all monitor-TVs of its class - in few words, just amazing! The PIP is a treat too. I didn't even try movies yet so I believe its gonna be really beautiful - I want to buy a blu-ray player as well so I can't imagine how good its gonna look on this monitor. I am sure there are gonna be enough people out there finding stuff to complain about - this is missing, and that is not in the right part of the menu, and this is uncomfortable, but bottom line is, in my opinion - unless you're a pro working with visual content, such as pro-video and more so pro-photo editing, you're not gonna see much difference between this and $1000 + monitors. Whoever got it, enjoy! Whoever is considering to get it, get it and enjoy!