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Bought this monitor Amazon/TigerDirect.Came defective : DVI port not workingSamsung customer service toll me wait couple of days to be replaced because they didn't have any in stock. Tigerdirect is the same. It's past one week and now they don't wanna replace. only fix an it will take 14 business day. just send back to have money backbecause now prce is diferent. hahaha
Especially with its reasonable price, the T260HD is easily one of the best multi-purpose, high-resolution LCD monitor/HDTV displays on earth.
The monitor in itself works fine, the audio is crisp and clear, when hooked up to a pc through dvi or analog you might see a slight glitch in the screen while booting the pc.
I upgraded my 22" Dell LCD which was running with an external tuner, it just wasn't cutting it. I purchased this monitor at a great price after rebate, it looks great. Picture quality is excellent in HD. The only problem is the sound, its not the greatest but it does the job.
The fact that it has a built in HDTV tuner is pretty cool, too. I love having a high resolution widescreen 1080p-sized screen. I LOVE the amount of inputs this has. It's usually faster to turn the monitor off and then back on. Standing up and crouching down to see the screen at different angles emphasizes the problem. (Once calibrated, though, the colors are better than I had expected). Based on what I've read, the problem, is that on TN panels the R, G, and B pixels are deeper in the panel than on other types of panels. If it was just a few seconds, that would be fine and I would consider it worth it for saving on my energy costs.
It's a beautiful addition to my desk, with the "touch of color" frame and piano-gloss-black base. I've had this monitor for a couple of months now and wanted to share my thoughts. Even the small difference in vertical angle between the top and bottom of the screen are enough to change the colors. When you're looking directly down into the can, you can see all of them. If I fill both screens with solid blue, my older S-IPS screen looks like a solid color, but the TN panel looks like a gradient light blue to dark blue, top to bottom.
It took a while to get the colors calibrated decently, and I had to buy a color spyder to get the job done. Even my 5 year old son noticed this. I use a dual monitor system, with my other monitor being an older samsung syncmaster with an S-IPS panel, and the different is remarkable.Basically, the TN panel makes the color EXTREMELY sensitive to the vertical angle you're viewing. Also, I thought it was a great price for this size and quality of monitor.It's not all wonderful though. Very pretty.
It only tilts UP, not DOWN. When I stand up, it's yellow, but like this [sitting down] it's brown."Another disappointing problem is the lack of good tilt adjustment. He was watching me designing a website and said, "Daddy. The real drawback, and what keeps this screen out of the professional display realm, is the use of the cheaper TN type LCD panel. But if you change your angle, the side of the can might be occluding part or even all of one or more chips. I have trouble envisioning a scenario where the screen would need to be tilted significantly up, but as I keep my monitors on an upper hutch-level of my desk, I really needed to tilt it down.
Overall, I like it. After getting the screen for myself, I realized the confusion. Some of the reviews I read before buying mentioned complete lack of tilt, and others contradicted that. (Especially because of the color issues from viewing the monitor at an vertical angle).
But sometimes it's 10 or 15 seconds (it seems to vary), and that's just too long. On the T260HD, it looks like a gradient. The colors are vibrant, and the brightness and contrast are great. It's not a solution I recommend because it reduces the monitor's stability, but it's worked ok for me.The last issue I've seen is the time it takes for the screen to wake up from power saving mode.
It's like looking at colored poker chips in the bottom of a tin can. On a TN panel, this means that the RGB balance is off.An easy on-screen example can be tested by filling the screen up with a solid color. I wound up propping up the back end of the base with a few coasters. And, by the way, my other monitor comes on quickly so the problem is definitely not my computer's response time.So to sum up:PRO: Looks great, great brightness, great contrast, good colors (once adjusted, and when viewed at the proper angle), great range of inputs, good priceCON: TN panel means colors are highly sensitive to vertical angle, can't tilt the screen down, takes a while to "wake up" from power saving modeI would re-evaluate my options if I were looking at this again as a new purchase, although I would probably buy it again if I were under the same financial constraints, because it is a good value.
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