Customer Reviews

Samsung SyncMaster 920NW 19-inch LCD Monitor

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3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

I purchased this monitor in Sept. 2007 to replace a View Sonic monitor that faded on me within 14 months of purchase. I plugged this monitor into my computer, and it was ready to go. Talk about plug-and-play. I never even had to run the CD that came with it. The 19-inch widescreen makes for easy viewing on the eyes. The colors are crisp. I don't see any bleeding on the edges of the screen. I relied heavily on the opinions I read here on Amazon, and I was not disappointed. I highly recommend this item for both the quality and value.

I just upgraded to a laptop and docking station at work with this monitor from a standard 17". The color and definition is simple stunning. Will be buying one for home as well.

Very good monitor for the price. Clear, bright, widescreen, everything looks great on it. Highly recommend.

I bought one of these about 4 months ago. The color is fantastic and the clarity is equal to many of the more expensive monitors in this class. I am going to get another soon for a dual monitor setup. Samsung has been in the electronics business for years and this Flat Panel is no exception to their quality.

I purchased the 920NW to replace my original monitor on my Dell Optiplex 745. After attaching it, I immediate felt the image quality was poor. When I view white text on a black background, it became clear that there was a double image. I called Samsung, and they stated it was a known issue, and they would replace it by sending a new one. The second one had the same problem, and the third as well. Clearly there is an incompatibility with the graphics card, as I've seen comments by some others with the same problem. So if you buy this, better hope you get lucky.
Update - tech support has been able to make some headway, but the image is still very unclear, with colors not being sharp.

I purchased a Samsung SyncMaster 920NW 19 monitor two weeks ago, and have been disappointed in the quality of the image. Color vibrancy on the unit is good, and like others have noted here, it worked first time out of the box with no fiddling, drivers, etc.

However, I was very disappointed in the fuzzy text on the unit. It looks like the whole screen is slightly out of focus. After trying to adjust all of the built-in on-screen controls, I installed the drive that came with the monitor, but saw no improvement. And while this monitor supports a variety of resolutions, there are really only two that I have found that work adequately - the remainder of the resolution settings are completely unusable. I have also installed the latest graphics drivers and tried various driver settings - all to no avail.

It looks like I'm going to be returning this unit to the retailer and hopefully finding a better solution.

I bought this monitor because I wanted a black 19 inch widescreen and this was one of only two I could find anywhere that didn't have one of those tacky glossy black bezels. I don't know what this trend is with making every single tech product as shiny as possible but to me the glossy black look is awful and I wish manufacturers would stop beating it to death and at least offer a normal matte black option for people who feel the same. That said, this monitor has a regular matte black bezel which looks great. Performance-wise it does the job very well. The picture is clear and looks sharp from a wide range of viewing angles. I only have two gripes with this monitor. One is just a matter of personal preference and the other is an unavoidable side-effect of using higher resolutions. First, the native resolution for this machine is 1440 x 900. This makes the image sharp, but on the tiny side. It's not so tiny that it's a huge issue, but it is smaller than I would prefer. None of the other resolutions are usable unfortunately, as they all result in image stretching or skewing. So while the 1440 x 900 res works fine, it will more or less be your only option and you will have to be comfortable with the smaller image and text size. What's interesting is that the instructions that come with it suggest setting the monitor to 1152 x 864, even though this is NOT the native resolution as advertised. While this resolution ALMOST works, it is not really a fit. You end up with larger, more appropriately-sized text and icons but the text appears slightly blocky and stretched, which I couldn't get used to. In the end I settled for the native res and dealt with things being slightly smaller. My other mini-gripe is that some lower quality images and videos that looked fine on my previous monitor now look pixelated and blocky. This is apparently because when lower resolution images are viewed on high resolution screens, it actually brings out the pixelation which may not have previously been visible. It's hard to hold this against the monitor though, since the same problem would have occured on any higher-res screen.

All in all, it is a very nice monitor with an excellent picture, but does have a few flaws/minor annoyances which prevent me from giving it a higher rating.

I picked this monitor because it seemed decent and I trust Samsung as a brand. However, within the weeks that followed I've noticed several stores selling LG monitors with much better response times (2ms) and better contrast resolutions (2000:1) for about the same price. Had I known, I would've waited and gotten one of those. I've never had a problem with an LG product either.

When I got this model, I thought there was something seriously wrong with it -- lack of clarity in the images, brightness and contrast poor even after much adjustment, etc. After several talks with Samsung support, I got a replacement. Same model and same problems. I believe that this is a low-end monitor, and it shows. No, it's not a problem with my video card, etc. I tried the monitors on another machine with excellent display on its own monitor. Same result -- very poor image and after awhile tired eyes and a headache. I'm sure -- or at least hope -- other Samsung models are better, but avoid this one. Hear good things about the ultra-sharp lcd Dell line.

I purchased this item elsewhere. I was very dissapointed when I got it home though. I could only find one screen resolution which gave decent results, and even then the text was blurry on anything but a white background, and it had pink and green ghost images. All of the other screen resolutions gave blurry results. I tried installing the CD which did not make a difference. I've seen a handful of other bad reviews which state similar problems so it looks like i'm not alone. My computer is a custom built CAD station with an Nvidia Quadro video card. I also tried it on an older computer which gave much worse results.