LCD MONITOR REVIEW SAMSUNG SYNCMASTER 940B 19 INCH

LCD MONITOR REVIEW SAMSUNG SYNCMASTER 940B 19 INCH
Posted:2006-07-08 By lcd monitor Number of View:17366
LCD MONITOR REVIEW SAMSUNG SYNCMASTER 940B 19 INCH By :lcd monitor Posted:2006-07-08 xtreview is your : Video card - cpu - memory - Hard drive - power supply unit source Samsung SyncMaster 940B This lcd monitor is similar to SyncMaster 940T, except that it is based on a TN+Film rather than PVA matrix. The sample we got for our tests was black, but the 940B is also available in a silver case. The stand allows to change the tilt and height of the screen and to turn it into the portrait mode. The lcd monitor has analog and digital inputs, and an integrated power adapter. The controls are designed in the same way as on the 940T, but the labels are white. By default, the lcd monitor has 100% brightness and 75% contrast. To achieve 100-nit brightness of white I selected 20% brightness and 25% contrast. Brightness is controlled through pulse-width modulation of the power of the backlight lamps at a frequency of about 340Hz. Solid-color stripes are noticeable in dark areas of color gradients. The brightness and contrast settings have almost no effect on them. The vertical viewing angles are much worse in comparison with the PVA matrix, of course. The picture becomes dark as soon as you just lower your head a little below the screen. When you are looking at the screen from below at an angle of about 50 degrees, the image goes almost completely black. The 940B’s gamma curves look better than the 940T’s. They lie close to the theoretical curves, so the image looks normal, without excessive whitishness. There are no serious problems with the curves and none arise when contrast is reduced in the lcd monitor’s settings. The 940B’s color temperature setup is similar to the 940T’s, too. In every mode it yields a colder image than the 940T does, but the difference in negligible. Despite the declared response time of 8 milliseconds, the matrix installed in the SyncMaster 940B is not too fast. It’s an ordinary TN+Film without response time compensation, and a rather slow TN+Film, too: the response time is as high as 35 milliseconds at the maximum. Of course, the 940B can’t stand competition against modern lcd monitors with RTC and doesn’t suit well for applications that require a fast matrix. The TN matrix cannot compare with the PVA when it comes to contrast ratio, yet it is good enough against many other TN-based lcd monitors. Moreover, the contrast ratio remains good even at the low screen brightness thanks to the considerable decrease in the level of black. Thus, the SyncMaster 940B can be viewed as a lcd monitor for everyday work, a kind of cheaper 940T for those who don’t care about the small vertical viewing angle. It is well (but not perfectly) set up, has good parameters and is assembled in a neat, cute and practical case. Like the 940T, the SyncMaster 940B should only be purchased for home if you are sure its speed suits you fine. I can’t say it is much faster than the 940T despite the threefold difference in their specified response times (they differ, of course, but there is a bigger difference between them and modern lcd monitors with RTC). xtreview is your : Video card - cpu - memory - Hard drive - power supply unit source we would be happy to answer for your question . if you have suggestion or comment regarding this review our support would be glad to help just join our forum and ask u will get the best answer to discuss check our forum section :-) RATE THIS REVIEW 1 2 3 4 5    / 5   View Stat

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