Product Description

Imagine a sculpture that doubles as a valuable business tool. That's the Samsung 2433BW 24" widescreen LCD monitor. Its soft curves, rich piano black finish, clear acrylic accent bar and integrated cable housing lend distinctive style and sophistication to your desk. The 5 ms response, exclusive SAMSUNG picture technologies and 20,000:1 dynamic contrast mean a fast, colorful, detailed picture. And a Custom Key gives you one-touch access to the picture optimization function you use the most. Beauty inside and out.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #454 in Personal Computers
• Color: Piano black
• Brand: Samsung
• Model: 2433BW
• Platform: Windows
• Format: CD
• Dimensions: 5.25" h x 19.50" w x 25.50" l, 17.00 pounds
• Native resolution: 24
• Display size: 24

Features

• 24" Widescreen Glossy Black LCD Monitor. Contrast ratio 1000:1 Response time 5ms. Pixel pitch .270mm Brightness 300 nits. Resolution 1920x1200. Special features: MagicBright3, off timer, Image Size, color effect, customized key, Magic Wizard and Magic Tune with assetManagement, Windows Vista Premium, DVI with HDCP, MagicRotation S/W(Pivot), MultiScreen S/W.

Customer Reviews

Great Big Monitor
This will be very short because I just bought it yesterday and set it up last night. Samsung must have heard the complaints on the stand because connecting the stand consisted of lining up three little pins and tightening a wingnut type screw. Very simple. We'll watch and see how it holds up, though I have no reason to think it won't be fine. On my computer (Windows XP Pro) the screen opened up when I first turned it on and a small window opened in the middle and told me I was not set to the optimum resolution (1920 X 1200) and after about a half minute the screen went blank. I finally read the quick set up guide after doing this twice and it says you have to fix that -reset your resolution- before it goes blank the third time or it's too late. I don't know what happens if you don't - does it go blank permanently and you have to return it or what? Anyway, I reset my resolution and boy is it gorgeous. For the past 3 or 4 years I've had a 19" monitor that I thought was okay. When I pulled up some photos in Photoshop on this screen and filled up that HUGE screen I was blown away. It was razor sharp and the color was perfect. I am a serious photographer and bought this mostly for editing in Photoshop and doing video work. I am very very happy with the clarity and vibrance of this monitor. For the price I almost expected to be dissapointed. Not so, just the opposite. I didn't intentionally view it from different angles, but as I recall, after reading some other reviews, When I stood up and walked in and out of the room and happened to look at it from side and high angles I did not notice any appreciable degradation. I'll take a closer look later as I'm not at that computer as I write this. Like some previous reviewers said I had to crank down the brightness a little, which I see as a good thing, because that means you've got more room for adjustment to your preferences. Well, this started off to be real short, but once I got going it didn't end that way. You should see my long ones. LOL

Addendum: I promised I would look at the screen at different angles when I got home and I have. I can see almost no degradation as I walk around the room and as I stand up and as I get down low and tilt the screen. There is a slight darkening at some near extreme angles. I can't imagine the kind of angle a person would be operating at to find any real problems with viewing this. In other words: "No problem man".

good monitor horrible stand install
Like others have said, installation of the stand is a joke. The instructions consists of a drawing showing the two stand pieces fitting together and then snapping into the monitor base. What they don't show is a 250 lb man struggling and putting all his weight on the stand to snap it in. The Samsung engineering dept really blew it! With that said, once I got on line and searched out some tips, I was able to get it together. Basically, you'll need to lubricate both the stand and the rubber gasket on the monitor. Armor All, or some other PLASTIC SAFE (not Vaseline) lubricant will work. You need to put the monitor topside down on the carpeting and use your feet and knees or another set of hands to support it. Then tilt the stand a bit forward and use your weight to exert pressure (lots of it) while rotating it back up. I had to try it a few times, each time adding more weight. I was afraid I was going to crack the monitor, or lose grip of it and fall on the darn thing.

Once the stand is together, the monitor install is a breeze. The manual says the DVI cable is optional, but my package came with both VGA and DVI. I haven't calibrated yet, or even installed the Samsung software, but right out of the box, as a plug and play monitor, the colors are beautiful, and more importantly true. I did a test print on my Epson 7600 from Photoshop and the print was dead on.

It's a TFT monitor, so viewing suffers from low and high angles. Side angles look pretty decent. If you're using the monitor as a workstation monitor, don't get hung up on viewing angles. You'll end up spending an extra $300 for what? So you can sit on the floor and look up at your monitor? If you want to use it as a gaming monitor where you'll be sitting below it in a gaming chair, well that's a different story.

I purchased this monitor for my father's Photo-shop workstation. I personally have a Samsung 245T that I paid $600 for. It has a portrait rotating stand, and all sorts of different input options, and great viewing angles, BUT straight on viewing is no better than the 2433BW. Good luck.
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Great LCD Monitor
Since my cheap Hann LCD 19" died in 9 mos. I decided to buy a quality widescreen LCD. After looking around and knowing Samsung produces some of the best HDTV LCD TVs I bought this model and so far it's been a great choice. Bright, vibrant colors and sharp detail in both images and test.
Highly recommended.