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Out of stock | | | | | | The 2443BWT offers a space-saving design with all the features you need. Make sure you're in the best position to do your finest work with the height adjustable stand (HAS) and experience superior quality and easy-to-view images with 20000:1 dynamic contrast ratio. Complete with Microsoft Vista Premium certification, the 2443BWT is ideal for demanding users. | | | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Product Length: | 25.25 inches | | Product Width: | 20.0 inches | | Product Height: | 11.5 inches | | Product Weight: | 16.31 pounds | | Package Length: | 25.1 inches | | Package Width: | 20.0 inches | | Package Height: | 12.0 inches | | Package Weight: | 22.4 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 6 reviews |
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| | Features | Ergonomic 4-way adjustable stand with height, swivel, tilt, and pivot adjustabilitySlim design with matte black finish and touch key functions20000:1 ultra high dynamic contrast ratio with 1920 x 1200 resolutionEnergy Star compliant5ms fast response time with 15 pin D-SUB, DVI-D connectors for analog and input
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2 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Poor screen and mechanically shaky Mar 10, 2010
I just received this monitor and sent it right back. First, the built-in calibration profile is horrible. Colors were weird and everything had a blue cast. This is not a matter of adjusting contrast and brightness (or the gamma or color tone presets): the hardware calibration profile was so far off that no amount of adjustment to get it to look good.
Fortunately I have an external calibrator (x-rite) that was able to get it back to a good, crisp and colorful appearance. I'm not talking about using it for professional work (like photography or web layout). I'm just interested in acceptable colors and clarity for day to day work. So, suddenly a $390 monitor becomes a $590 monitor when you need additional hardware to recalibrate to get it look ok and not give you a headache.
Setting aside the bad calibration, the monitor also has two serious design flaws. Like many budget monitors, this one uses the cheapest form of LCD screen: TN. I was hopeful that Samsung (which has state-of-the-art LCD screen manufacturing facilities) could do a good job with this budget LCD technology. Unfortunately they've tossed quality control out the window and the results are painful. The screen is washed out at the bottom and overly contrasty at the top. You cannot adjust it to get even contrast from top to bottom. So the region of good contrast and clarity is in the middle 70% of the screen. This negates the purpose of getting a big monitor: you'll be positioning your working windows towards the center to reduce eyestrain. In addition to the wide shift in contrast from top to bottom, the monitor has a magenta to blue color cast from top to bottom. Any window with a white background (like this website, word documents, spreadsheets, just about everything) is going to be tinted magenta to blue.
This thing is a mess. Oh, and the stand is shaky and very difficult to adjust. The height adjustment is loose, so it's easy to lower or raise the monitor accidentally. The tilt back and forth, however, is very stiff, and it's impossible to make small adjustments. If you push hard enough to get it to move it inevitably moves too much. What a piece of junk. And if your hand brushes against the monitor the whole thing shakes--it's very flimsy feeling. The turning side to side is ok, however. One small success amidst an ocean of failures.
2 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 The best available is not good enough. Mar 06, 2010
First I should point out that even though my monitor is a Samsung SyncMaster 2443BWT, it apparently has a 50,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio. That is if you believe the specifications noted on the official Samsung box that the monitor was shipped in. This is higher than the 20,000:1 that is specified for the 2443BWT shown here at amazon. The box also touts a couple of other things: 24"(61cm) wide TFT-LCD monitor (1920x1200) and 5ms response time.
I did not make any special request. I just ordered the 2443BWT here at amazon, and I was shipped one that has a 50,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio (if you believe the box). My monitor's model no is 2443BWT, its model code is LS24MYKAB7A/ZA, and its type number is MY24WS.
Is there any distinguishable difference between 20,000:1 and 50,000:1? I don't know. What I do know is that this monitor has the best colors I have seen in the eight monitors I have owned. It's like a whole new door to color has been opened. Particularly I am talking about the color in DVDs. For games the color is the same lush, bright colors I have seen in my previous Samsung monitors. But my DVD viewing has been greatly improved.
For example, Battlestar Galactica previously seemed to be dark. I didn't think there was anything wrong with that; I just supposed the darkness was a deliberate bit of cinemagraphic art. But now the darkness has gone, and true, vivid colors have appeared. I feel like I can actually taste the colors. And the same thing has happened with other DVDs and movies. I have no explanation for this great improvement other than the heightened contrast ratio. Whether it is 20,000:1 or 50,000:1, either number is an exponential increase over the meager 1000:1 ratio that my previous monitors had. The result is a new experience of color.
Despite its fine 5ms response time, the 2443BWT is not as gamer friendly as my old 19" Samsung LCD. With the latter, I never had to make any adjustments. My monitor played any game as well as the game could be played. Of course the 19" square monitor could not play newer games at their high resolutions. But my favorite old games (like Baldur's Gate II, Diablo II, and Heroes of Might and Magic III & IV) don't support high resolutions. For newer games like Civilization IV and Heroes of Might and Magic V, the 2443BWT playes them well at high resolutions without my having to make any adjustments. But I had to go through hours of annoying trial and error before I could get older games to play right. For example, for Heroes of Might & Magic III, I had to use the monitor's control buttons to set Size&Position/ImageSize to Auto. (I advise leaving it at this Auto setting if you are a gamer.) Then I had to right-click the Heroes III application icon and set the Properties/Compatibility tab to run at 640x480. For Heroes of Might & Magic IV, I kept the Auto setting, but I also had to set my desktop resolution to 1280x1024 before starting the game. Otherwise it ran poorly.
My DVD viewing is the best I have ever had, but it is not as good as it could be. This is my main reason for subtracting a star in my review's rating. The DVD viewing is not as good as it could be simply because the 24" screen is too big. With my face only two feet from the screen, the picture is not as sharp as it should be. When I watch DVDs, I always shrink the picture down to an agreeable window size; otherwise the picture is much too pixellated, even for Blu-ray disks. Still the shrunken window doesn't give me the perfect sharpness I would like. Of course, I can shrink the window down to a smaller size, but then movie details become too hard to see.
I think the best DVD viewing would come from a monitor with these specifications: 1) 50,000:1 contrast ratio, 2) 1920x1200 resolution (1920x1080 would probably be fine for DVDs, but I would lose resolution for games), and 3) 22" screen.
That's right. I think a 22" monitor would be better than a 24" monitor. A 22" monitor with a 1920x1200 resolution would give me a sharper picture. Unfortunately as far as I know, there is no 22" monitor that has a 50,000:1 contrast ratio, a 5ms response time, and a 1920x1200 resolution. Is there?
March 29, 1010 (update for this review):
A few weeks ago I bought a new monitor, my ninth one. I was looking for a monitor with these specifications: 22", 1920x1200, 50,000:1, and 5ms. I could not find one so I settled for Samsung's P2350-1, which has these specifications: 23", 1920x1080, 50,000:1, and 2ms. I thought the 23" would be an improvement over my 24" 2443BWT (for reasons noted above; that is, a sharper image while watching DVDs in a shrunken window from two feet away). The 2ms is better than the 5ms of the 2443BWT, though I don't need it (I have stopped playing games). I thought the 1920x1080 would not be any worse than my 1920x1200 because DVDs--even Blu-rays--don't support higher than 1920x1080.
After a few weeks with the P2350-1, what are my conclusions? Is it better than the 2443BWT?
No. It is worse.
The P2350-1's DVD images are sharper, marginally. But the 2443BWT has something that is more than marginally better, which is color.
Both monitors have 50,000:1 contrast ratios. (WARNING! See my remarks at the beginning of my review, regarding my 2443BWT's 50,000:1 ratio versus the 20,000:1 ratio that amazon specifies for the 2443BWT, even though my 2443BWT came from amazon.) Nevertheless, the P2350-1's picture is noticeably darker. I wrote in my review that the 2443BWT has the best color I have ever seen in a monitor. That remains true after I have been using the P2350-1. And I do not know why. My 2443BWT's colors radiate vivid, tasty colors that override any marginal increase in definition afforded by the P2350-1's smaller screen size. Therefore I have returned to using the 2443BWT. In fact, after using the P2350-1 for the past few weeks, the 2443BWT impresses me so much that I have decided to up its rating to five stars.
April 22, 2010 (update for this review):
I continue to be happy with this monitor and its bright colors. I am making this update to point out something I previously failed to notice. The front of the monitor, upper right corner, reads, "50,000:1 Dynamic Contrast." Previously I had seen this only on the box. That it is stencilled right onto the monitor makes me think if you buy the most recently manufactured 2443BWT, you will get a monitor with a 50,000:1 dynamic contrast, and you will get one that displays the good color I have been seeing. As I write this, amazon still has five new ones in stock, and I assume all of them have the 50,000:1 dynamic contrast, despite the fact that the product description still says it has only a 20,000:1 dynamic contrast.
 Nice monitor - Narrow Viewing Angle Jan 31, 2010
Great size to do side-by-side work (2 documents open at the same time). The monitor worked out of the box and set-up wthout a problem (Windows XP and Windows 7). The only annoying thing is the narrow viewing angle - if you move your head up/down or sideways there is a brightness fall-off outside of your central point of vision. Haven't done any photo work yet, so I can't comment on that aspect.
Upgraded from a 19" Samsung Syncmaster (6 years with no problems) which is attached to my old system.
5 of 9 found the following review helpful:
 viewing angle too narrow Oct 23, 2009
I ordered this product because it has the highest resolution my Mac Mini can display (1920 x 1200), it can be used in portrait mode, and it was (supposedly) reasonably priced. I found out the hard way you get what you paid for. As a photographer I need good image quality. With this monitor I could only get an acceptable image if I looked at the screen from one specific angle and without using my peripheral vision. If ever moved my head, or even my eyes, just a little bit, the color of the image changed. Furthermore, the left side of the screen (since I used it on portrait mode) was always less bright than the right side. I returned it after 3 days and got the Samsung 245T. I lost a lot of money from shipping and restocking charges, but I don't care. Now I have another monitor that I absolutely love and can look at every day for hours without wishing I made a different choice.
5 of 6 found the following review helpful:
Lovely Picture Oct 20, 2009
I just got two of these as upgrades to my single 226BW and 42in HD monitor. the 42" was nice but i really don't think it was 'usable' when it came to regular computer usage. the 2443BWT is beautiful. the matte screen is really nice. its plenty bright and the resolutions is great. the height adjustment is as easy as lifting your hand, literally and it stays put when you let go. screen rotation was pretty cool as this was my first monitor that could do that. it takes some getting used to. with both of my monitors, i did not have any stuck or dead pixels so that was a huge relief. paying this much for a screen, i'd expect no less. samsung definitely has a nice and affordable monitor on their hand. i don't see to many reviews about this monitor but i'd say, its fantastic.
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