Monitor Reviews

The screen doesn't appear to be truly flat. There is a piece of truly flat glass encasing the display.

The OSD controls are easy to use but don't allow me to compensate for vertical bowing toward the center of the display. Video performance at 1600x1200 @85Hz is not very good. All of the monitors exhibited these problems.

Samsung has good technical support people. They were always helpful and responsive.

There are alot of features, but this monitor seems to lack the basics.

Good:
Monitor is BIG, I can surf 2 web pages and watch a DVD without any overlap. It's also nice when writing a report because I can have my source info on the left hand side and MS Word open on the right. 1600x1200 @ 85hz ROCKS... I think the other guy that wrote the review must have had a crappy video card that couldn't handle the strain of running at that resolution and refresh rate. Also the max resolution of 2048x1536 is great, especially for the price.

Bad: only 2 bad things I can say about this monitor. 1) Vertical bowing on the right I can't adjust (the bottom where the clock is comes up about 2mm) and 2) Sometimes when I turn the monitor on after being cold for a while there is color blurring and slight double vision but it goes away eventually.

The drive has been working fine for over a month. We burn CD's on it. We use it as a source drive when we need to copy one of our homemade DVDs. It is working flawlessly.

I recommend this drive if you are comfortable with doing the install yourself. I can offer no opinion on the Sony supplied software, as I simply don't use it.

My God Almighty - it was the biggest mistake I have ever made.

My son... he watches no less than 10 hours a day now, and my husband - he watches more. Last week I caught my little boy touching himself in the Devil's way to the MTV television station to some hoochie girls!! The TV is the devil and I curse the man who invented it! It makes zombies of us all! Someone do something!

On the plus side though it has excellent pixel quality and the surround sound will blow you away like nobody's business.

Really, let's find a way to keep the teenagers from posting reviews on products they don't own. Or at least a way to keep the loonies from trashing an item because they have a problem with something unrelated to that item.

For DVD's, the picture is sharp, and, with my Sony Vaio computer, the action is smooth and continuous.

For photo retouching, the resolution is high, and the color reproduction (as compared to the actual printed photo) is extremely accurate.

The monitor was plug-and-play (no adjustments necessary when I installed it, nor again since). The monitor's (exterior) color also matches my Sony Vaio (desktop) precisely. (Cool!)

I could've gotten a LCD monitor. But it would've been smaller and less sharp. The 19" Trinitron was the largest that would fit on my desk. Overall, I've been very happy.

For maximum DVD and digital photo performance -- this is clearly the monitor to get!

The monitor, coupled with the single cable, make an incredibly small impact for those space conscious users. The monitor is as thin as .5 inches at the edges and can be easily hung, to use even less space. Sony also added the ability for a dual VGA input, so the monitor can be used as the primary VGA device for two computers, simply switched though a button on the panel.

Overall, I love the monitor, and while the price is a bit steep, the functionality and largely the size of the monitor make it worth it.

The gripes...

- Slight moire towards the side near the lower part of the monitor under Linux or the Mac OS. (9, X) cannot be gotten rid of using on-screen Moire reduction controls, and Degauss does not effect it. It can be gotten rid of in other ways, but they're more difficult.

- at 1280x960, the maximum refresh rate is 75, which is a bit low. Going above 1280x960 can make the refresh rate intolerably low. (The monitor supports a 1600x1200 resolution)

- On-screen controls make it unnecessarily difficult to fix trapezoidal/pincussion issues compared to some other brands, and the higher-end Viewsonic monitors.

- This monitor is *BRIGHT*. With the brightness settings on the monitor all the way down, the monitor was still far too bright, and required some tweaking from within the OS to bring the brightness down to a comfortable level.

Overall, though, it is about half the price of the monitors that are gripe-free, and compared to other 19" monitors in the same price point, the issues I experienced with the Viewsonic e90f were minimal and easy to resolve.