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இ Fuzzy Wuzzy's Summary:
ѾѾѾѾѾ Highly recommended with warm fuzzies!
ѾѾѾѾѾ Excellent 5-fuzzies feature ratings:
ѾѾѾѾѾ I bought this monitor to replace a 11 year old high quality 17-inch Trinitron CRT that is still working great. While my 17-inch CRT can still match the 225BW for clarity after 11 years of use (and has better color than any LCD can have), I mainly wanted the bigger screen space and far lower heat emission of the 225BW. I work entirely from home in e-commerce software development, so moving from a 17-inch CRT to a 22-inch LCD widescreen gives me MUCH more room to have more windows displayed (the next best thing would be *two* 22-inch LCDs) and I am looking forward to having this LCD heat up the home office FAR LESS than the 17-inch CRT would during the summer. I also like the far more adjustable stand on the 225BW, compared with their newer
. I do not understand why Samsung put an inferior non-height-adjustable stand on their newer 226BW, but that was the deciding factor in making me not purchase the 226BW because it was only slightly more expensive than the 225BW.
ѾѾѾѾѾ This is a great price for a great 22-inch LCD. I also had to upgrade my old Nvidia GeForce4 card to a Xfx GeForce 7600GS 512MB because the old graphics card did not support the monitor's native 1680x1050 resolution, which added $156 to the total purchase, but the cost was well worth it - this extends the lifespan of my 4 year old PC and I do not ogle as much the newer computers with even faster graphics cards. For best results, you need to have a graphics card and updated driver that supports the 225BW's native 1680x1050 resolution and run it using the DVI digital output. Even though the 225BW is called a "SyncMaster", it does not really have the same adaptability as the multi-sync CRT monitors for matching clarity at various resolutions.
ѾѾѾѾѾ And not a single bad/dead/stuck pixel to be found. Movies and DVDs play clearly, and with the upgraded graphics card, the 3D rendering on games is great and responsive without any shadowing effects. Overall, I am very impressed with the quality of the monitor. Kudos to Samsung's quality control.
ѾѾѾѾ Good 4-fuzzies feature ratings:
ѾѾѾѾ In regards to the much-discussed backlighting, I only notice a slight bit of backlight along the bottom edge of the screen when I fully turn the brightness up to the maximum setting of '100'; no detectable backlight shows up on the top, left, or right edges of the screen, even if I adjust the brightness to the maximum '100'. And this is with a solid black background that I always use for my desktop, along with a plain black screensaver. I get the impression that how much backlight you have may depend somewhat on chance, as it seems to vary from monitor to monitor. When I first turned on the monitor, it was extremely bright. After I first tried out all of their preset brightness/contrast settings (the "Text" setting was my favorite preset, but it was still a bit too bright for my taste), I ended up setting my own custom settings to a very low Brightness of '7' (at night in a darkened room) or '10' to '15' (during the day with subdued natural lighting) with a Contrast setting of '70' - I adjusted my Brightness/Contrast mainly for text clarity and its appearance matched what I was used to on the previous CRT monitor. With these settings, the backlight along the bottom edge was only barely noticeable, and I would have to minimize all windows to just leave the solid black background of my desktop and purposely stare at the bottom edge for a few seconds before it was visible.
ѾѾѾ Average not-good not-bad 3-fuzzies feature ratings:
ѾѾѾ The viewing angle is quite narrow. It is totally sufficient for me sitting centered in front of the monitor, but anyone else sitting or standing next to me would see some degree of yellow and blue color bleeding into the far side of the screen.
| Standing screen display size | 22 Inches |
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