Customer Reviews

Samsung SyncMaster 193p 19" LCD Monitor

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I've been using the monitor for over 3 weeks now, and I must say, it's the best I've ever used. Note: I am not a graphics designer nor am I a gamer. I use my computer primarily for word processing, internet, and media applications, like realone and wma.

Set-Up:
No dead pixels on arrival. The unit is solidly and beautifully crafted (this thing oozes quality, even when off). Set up is a cinch, as the box contains all of the hardware and software you need. No need to go to Staples to buy more cables. It even includes an optional wall-mount hardware. The setup took about 30 minutes, as you need to install magic tune, natural color, and pivot pro, each of which controls the brightness/geometry/contrast, color, and pivot respectively.

Weakness:

Let's first get the weakness out of the way, of which there is only one: the integration of the three provided software. By far the best designed is the magic tune, which I really love. However, magic tune and natural color contain repetitive controls (like color and brightness), which leads to some confusion. By far the worst is Pivot pro, which has given me headaches, but this is no fault of the monitor itself. Customer service for pivot pro has been decent (not great), and am still trying to work out remaining issues with it.

Output:
The color reproduction, at least to my untrained eyes, look great. The text, which is very important to me, is sharp and clear. It puts my work NEC Mulisync LCD at work to shame. (I have been putting in more work hours at home... can it be because of the monitor??? Heh heh). As I said, it support either analog or DVI, but because of my old graphics card, I've been usin the analog output. It looks great in analog, and can't wait to upgrade my card to see what a DVI signal would look like on this monitor.

Conclusion/pricing/future plans for the monitor:
Apart from the sometimes-glitchy software, I see no reason to choose any other 19" LCD out there. Samsung is clearly the leader in LCD, both in market share (controls more than 30% of the market)and quality. And if they keep pumping out products like this, they'll stay there for a long time.

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I bought this to use as a secondary monitor since I have a 21" CRT (originally paid $1,600 for the CRT) as my main monitor. I am a graphic designer that gets brochure, flyers and other materials printed by an offset printing press, color are critical. I work extensively in Photoshop and Illustrator. Clarity and ability to rotate to portrait were my main concerns.

I originally did not consider this as a main monitor because; everything that I have read about LCD's says that the color is not as good as a CRT for design. This LCD may be the exception.

Positive structural- Most LCD's I looked at had the connections attached to the LCD panel the 193P has them attach to the base. A great feature since you don't have to worry about stretching the cables tight and loosening the connections. The base is solid and the whole thing seems constructed well.

Negatives - Software driven LCD adjustments.

I have used my 193P now for several weeks and all I can say is WOW! After adjustments to my video card settings and through the Magic Tune software I have dialed in color that is amazingly accurate for photos.

What I see in Photoshop is within 2-5% of the final printed piece from a printing press. This is very important to me, much more so than web or my ink jet. It's more accurate than my CRT. Blues have never looked accurate on my CRT nor do they on this. You have to know what CMYK values will make blue and not purple. In Illustrator Pantone colors are not accurate but that's why I have a printed PMS color book.

The 193P is now my main monitor. It's clearer than my CRT, the colors are more accurate and my eye strain has been minimized. This is a great choice for me, I will be ordering another real soon.

After reading many reviews of 19" LCD monitors I finally settled on the Samsung 193P as the best overall value/performance/quality choice. It has been up and running since December 30th and I couldn't be happier. I am using it as an external monitor for my Toshiba laptop and it was a snap to get setup, even for a novice like me. I love the brightness, resolution and color rendition as well as the slimline profile. I would recommend reading the reviews on www.anandtech.com/displays/ if you really want to get some indepth details and comparisons. I got the unit from CompUSA for $699.99 but there were 2 $50 rebates so my met was $599 (plus tax).

It's a winner!

After reading the reviews on this monitor, and checking other websites, I decided to purchase this Samsung SyncMaster. With the rebates (which I hopefully will receive from J&R) this was an extremely good buy for the quality of this monitor. I can't give the technical input some others have given, but I can say this is all I could want in a monitor. This is the first review I have ever written, but I am so impressed, and thankful for the reviews that led me to make this purchase, that I felt obligated to add my recommendation.

I recently purchased the Samsung 193P and couldn't be more happy!!! I am very picky when it comes to buying quality products and made sure I did my homework before I bought this LCD...

The product arrived in less than a week with standard shipping and came out of the box with ZERO dead pixles (not very common at all)... There is no color bleed at the corners what so ever...

Crystal clear picture!!!

This is a work monitor, so I wasn't so concenrned with the refresh rate as I would be with a home gaming screen... But I couldn't resist giving it a try... Loaded World of Warcraft and EQ2 (both games very intense graphics) and was pleasantly surprised how great these games looked. There was almost no shading and the screen kept up fine at a 20ms refresh rate...

This screen did cost a bit more than some of it's other comparable competition, but overall I can't stress on how much better this screen was than ALL of them...

Money well spent...

I am an sight impaired individual that was using an CRT that was made by AOC. THe monitor was ok but it was causing a lot of eye strain. So, I researched quite a few LCD monitors and I went to some of the major electronics to preview the displays. As I kept researching and previewing many displays my eyes was always affix on the 193p. I was impressed with the contrast, brightness, and color depth. So, I went ahead and purchased it from j&R Electronics. I received it within a week, connected it to my computer and I was even more impressed! I am enjoying every second of use. I highly recommend this oroduct.

This is one of the best monitors at any price, I have mine for 3 months now.

Plays DVD & 3D games without any gosting.

Beautiful design and perfect display, very wide viewing angle.

Full brigtness and contrast adjustment with included software.

Highly recommend.

I have had this LCD for about a year now, and I have been impressed with it everyday! I do a lot of graphics and this LCD was good to go right out of the box! I didn't need to do any color customization at all. The only down falls are the power supply isn't intergrated, so you have a brick to deal with and you have to use software to adjust brightness, contrast, etc. But that can be a good or a bad thing, since there is only on, heat activated, button for power you get a very elegent look.

You can't beat how slim it is and it's got a DVI and RGB, sepertate, inputs on the back. Supposdly you can get this moniter in an array of different colors (according to the box) but the silver one is all I have seen, it has a white enamel back and silver base. Samsung is written on the bezel of the monitor, the base and on the back of the disply. Otherwise there is nothing else written on that, just some sticker you can take off.

I recommed this or the smaller 17" 173p for anyone!

New monitor come this Tuesday. Worked great right out of box. No any setting needed to worry about. Everything automated adjust the picture contrast and brightness. Since it's bottomless design. Whole screen panel looks like one fine piece of Art work. Very fashion and modern can be fit into home office or living room. The best design ever I see in current market. special it's adjustable arm... wow, no one can make this so beautiful but Samsung. It's the way should be for LCD monitor not like those chunky monitor stand.

I always looking at the monitor stand design to be my next LCD monitor decision making. Looking for over 2 years. Finally find one and the only one I am truly love.

The bottom line - this display is unacceptable for playing video games or watching DVDs! I am currently running with an ATI Radeon 9800 with DVI to this LCD. When stationary, the picture looks great, however the 20ms response time makes Counter Strike unpleasant, and Far Cry nauseating to play. Turning around inside or outside becomes a blur. The walls on either side of a cooridor becomes a blur when running through. Watching DVDs is very do-able, but during fast sequences, especially when the background is spinning quickly you can't make out anything.

Those who reviewed this monitor and said the response time was un-noticable when using the DVI input were wrong. It truly boggles me how they came to this conclusion. This is old technology, and should not be purchased!