The image quality (brightness, contrast, color) are excellent. The matte surface is almost free of reflections. One can also well be used as DVD screen in the living room to monitor. Good is also the height adjustment - the panel remains on each vertical position just stand without a mechanical locking occurs.
However, there are a few minor concessions, which I find worth mentioning. Some of them would certainly have been preventable.
- The panel is rotatably supported, so you can use the monitor as a vertical shot. For designers certainly a good feature. However, Samsung delivers drivers only for Windows. In Mac OS X Leopard does nothing happen when rotating the display.
- A drawback of the rotatable mounting is that the panel does not engage in the two stable positions (0 and 90 degrees). So it happens that you back several times as to a picture frame and herrückt until the device is straight ahead.
- The use of on-screen menus and the switching on and off the device does not work via push buttons, but via touch sensors. The surface on the frame of the panel is completely smooth. Unfortunately, the usability is thereby underground. In a darker room you can see the label of the surfaces and hardly needs a flashlight handy to operate the menu.
- The built-in speakers are good at best to play sound effects of the operating system.
- One or two labels less on the frame of the panel it would have done. Do you have to be really reminds permanently even after the purchase because you (with 5ms 10000: 1 Dynamic Control; HDMI, Energy Star) to SyncMaster 2493HM has before him? Since the marketing people could turn down a gear at Samsung quiet times.
These are not critical deficiencies for me, I think the unit anyway for recommended and hope to me still enjoy a long time.
