Samsung SyncMaster P2350 LCD Monitor
Aug 17th, 2009 | By DavidMonitor testing is usually subjective and differs from person to person, but there are a few technical tests that can prove a monitors worth. In these tests, the resolution is set at 1920 x 1080 @ 60Hz, and photographed with an Olympus E-1 in a completely dark room.
This first test is just a screen of black, and shows the amount of backlight bleeding on the panel. Ideally, the whole panel would be completely black, but the bottom and top has a little backlight showing. This panel’s blacks are very dark, which proves the 50,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio.
This is just a screen of white. This would show any dead pixels as well as how bright the panel can be.
These tests show the contrast of the monitor. Each shade of grey should be easily distinguishable from each other, which is true for this monitor. The picture does not do it justice because of the limited dynamic range of the camera sensor, but to the human eye, the contrast is perfect.
To gamers especially, ghosting is a very important characteristic to LCD monitors. CRT monitors usually do not suffer from ghosting because each pixel refreshes very quickly, but in LCD monitors, the pixels turn on and off slower and if it is slow enough, ghosting appears. These images of a car moving from right to left were captured at 1/60th of a second. The monitor was outputting at 60 frames per second, so this is the equivalent of one frame. As you can see, the 226BW (an earlier gaming monitor) seems to have the least ghosting, with the 2463UW and P2350 trailing behind. The P2350 should look a lot better than the 2463UW because of the specifications (5ms vs 2ms) but they look very similar.
The viewing angle is listed as 160 degrees on both vertical and horizontal. This is an accurate measurement, I found that around 160-170 degrees the panel starts to darken.
Now that the panel is finally fully examined inside out, let’s start having some fun!
Could you please post your calibration settings?
thanks =)
“This 23.6″ monitor is bound to be a good purchase.”
is this a 23.6, or 23 in, display area?
After two days i got a dead pixel (green dot), registered a complaint. Tech ppl said panel has to be changed. After nearly two months still they couldn’t get a panel. Service is very poor.
JAK wrote:
Where did you buy it from? You should have returned it claiming you were not happy with the quality if the monitor.
However, some stores will not accept a return unless there is a certain percentage of failed pixels.
I was able to find a HDMI to DVI-D adapter for $7. This can now be connected to a HDMI cable or a DVI cable (depending on your need) It is good to keep the DVI-D because sometimes I hook up my PC to this monitor. Otherwise, my PS3 is using it.
This isn’t exactly a disadvantage.
I bought a P2350 monitor a couple months ago. Was very satisfied until it began to shut off by itself for no apparent reason. I would not recommend buying this monitor.
We can’t knock the entire line for one or two bad units. How is the colour Gamma? does this unit surpass the quality of the 2 year old XL20? anyone know?
@ Bourdieu:
I received my brand new Samsung P2350 monitor 2 days ago and is disappointed all the time. It shuts of without warning and then you are lucky if you get it on again. Most of the time you can not even get it on. Looks like this is a trend!!!
@ Jacques:
Wow, I’m having the exact same issues with mine!
It was fine for the first few weeks, then the random shutting down began.
I sent it in for repair and two weeks later it came back scratched to hell and the problem resumed within twenty minutes of powering it on!
I’ve sent it in again, although I’m not the least bit optimistic.
Avoiding Samsung products in the future. Their “service” is horrendous.
I also have a P2350. It works great most of the time. Every now and then it will go black screen for a few seconds and comes right back on. I guess I should contact them after reading the above comments.
I bought a Samsung P2350 less than 90 days ago. Mine started to shut down on its own as well. Today, it finally quit. The store that I purchased it at replace it since it happened within 90 days. its disappointing to find out that so many people are having the same problem. I have researched other sites on the internet that seem to have quite a few other folks with the same problem.
I was leery of buying a Samsung product since I have never had very good luck with their products in the past. Every one I talked to told me Samsung’s technology and quality had improved quite a bit. This problem is indicative of the problems I’ve had with their products in the past. Luckily, this time I purchased an extended warranty.
My SyncMaster P2350 will shut down by itself. This is infrequent at this stage. It used to come back on after a couple of seconds but last time I needed to press the power button. My standard warrantee is 3 years so I’m leaving it at this stage because the problem could be difficult to demonstrate – but ther is a Problem Samsung!
I recently bought a P2350 as well, and like others I’ve had some problems with it turning itself off, and its less than 30 days old! it has become unusable now due to this, thankfully I have a 3 year warranty, though I’m hoping for a refund as this sounds like a production/inherent defect
I bought my two Samsung P2350 monitors in the late october 2009 and hooked them up on dualview, it works very fine even now and I have not experienced any of those malfunktions yet.. Guess I should be lucky.