Samsung SM-245B PLUS 24"- Any good?

Klo · 28 Aug 2008 at 21:18

Hey,

Haven't heard much about the Samsung SM-245B PLUS 24", is it any good? I'm on the market for a 24 incher, and this one looks pretty fine, but are there any bad things about I haven't heard of? Does anyone have one?

I can't really afford much more unfortunately.

Thanks

wassap · 28 Aug 2008 at 21:28

Well its a TN panel, so most people will discount it straight away.

I had the OCUK value 24" with the pva panel and in all honesty i cant tell the difference between that and my current samsung SM245+, angles arent a problem for me, and I'd much prefer the 'quality'of the sammy.The Ocuk 24" was really poor imo.

Margaret · 28 Aug 2008 at 21:55

Get the OcUK or Hyundai, nobody wants a TN panel.

Tombo · 28 Aug 2008 at 22:00

I got the Hyundai, no dead or stuck pixels, nice selection of inputs; can't say I've seen any inverse ghosting and the angles and colours are great

I'm one very happy man.

badbob · 28 Aug 2008 at 22:01

I have a 245B, seems fine although I don't have any other 24" to compare it to. Build quality is excellent though, and pretty even backlight, much better than the 20" Samsung Pebble.

Apparently TN are better for gaming, less ghosting.

Baddass · 29 Aug 2008 at 09:11

have a read of my finding here: http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/samsung_245b.htm

Klo · 29 Aug 2008 at 15:51

Cool, thanks for that Baddass

Is TN really that bad? I sit straight in front of the monitor, so don't really need that good viewing angles.

Baddass · 29 Aug 2008 at 16:02

then no. id say the viewing angles were the only real weakness of the 245B, but if you're using from the front you should be fine. pre-calibrated colours abnd black depth were very impressive, as was the low input lag

EsaT · 29 Aug 2008 at 20:24

Klo said:
Is TN really that bad? I sit straight in front of the monitor, so don't really need that good viewing angles.

Depends on what you do.
If it's casual use, web surfing, word processing or fast paced gaming and such then no problem.
But if you need any kind accurate colours around the screen you won't get that from TN, upper edge is darker even from directly front of monitor and if you rise head few centimers to remove that bottom gets "white washed" and dark colours turn to white greyish. Extent of both changes already with few centimeter change in vertical position of eyes.
http://www.behardware.com/articles/680-5/lcd-24-iiyama-b2403ws-samsung-245t.html