Samsung SM-225BW 22" Widescreen

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I haven't come across any comments on this monitor. Don't know if I'm missing somthing but a 22" widescreen, with those specs, for under £387.74 looks good. I was looking at the SM-215TW, but that is an inch smaller and about £70 more.

Does anyone know anything about the SM-225BW? I've googled, but that's only brought up links to places selling it.
 
Pretty much all of the 22" monitors I've seen are using either a similar panel or the very same one. The viewsonic, acer and Westing House monitors all use it, I think. They'll all likely be much of a muchness with the main difference being VGA/DVI and HDCP or the lack thereof.
 
This 22" Samsung could well be at the top of my list now!

I had my eye on the Dell 2007WFP, but 22 inches for £325 with HDCP support, it has to be a bargain! :D
 
got any reviews any body? Whats your verdict Badass? can you give me any clues to whether this would be the better buy over the NEC 20.1"? (for pc use and mainly 360)
 
no reviews that i've seen of these 22" models. They look interesting, but i'm waiting to hear a bit more. One thing to note, the 225BW is using Samsung's new 22" TN Film panel whereas models like the Viewsonic VX2235WM are using a similar panel, but from CMO instead.
 
Looks like a TN panel going by the angle & colour reproduction comments. Strangely, the other 22" monitors have the same or very similar specs, but the Samsung claims to support 16.7 million colours whereas the others are 16.2 with dithering.

I've seen the SM_225BW going for £305... seems tempting, but the colour reproduction & viewing angles are slightly worrying. I'm waiting for more reviews.
 
Hmm, is the HDCP stamp really worth the better part of £100? The acer is listed in the UK with D-Sub/DVI for £280~

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doh, just seen above post, £305 is much better.
 
As title, anyone got this monitor? looks schweeeet, want it for xbox (what connections does it have? can I run it in 'HDTV' mode on this monitor?) also a centre monitor between my 2 19" TFT LG's I currently have to run games on, also widescreen photoshop work for my photographs, this monitor got good colour calib ?
 
id like to know too. its a toss up between the viewsonic 2025 or that. the smasung looks sweet and you can plug your xbox straight in digital and analogue inputs so you can plug your freeview in too (i think)
 
DasFruitMachine said:
Looks like a TN panel going by the angle & colour reproduction comments. Strangely, the other 22" monitors have the same or very similar specs, but the Samsung claims to support 16.7 million colours whereas the others are 16.2 with dithering.

I've seen the SM_225BW going for £305... seems tempting, but the colour reproduction & viewing angles are slightly worrying. I'm waiting for more reviews.
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The Samsung is using a different panel to some of the other 22"WS models which might explain this. The Samsung 225BW uses one of Samsung's own TN Film panels, (LTM220M1) whereas models like the Viewsonic VX2235WM are using a CMO TN Film panel (M220Z1-L01)
 
I'm definitely getting this 22" Samsung over the Dell 2007WFP after reading that review.

I know it's a TN panel, but when I'm sat at my PC I sit directly infront of it, so viewings angles are not too much of a problem.
 
Are there two models of this screen in different colours then? Both ocuk and the bcc review give the model as SM-225BW but one is silver the other black.
 
frogboy said:
I'm definitely getting this 22" Samsung over the Dell 2007WFP after reading that review.

I know it's a TN panel, but when I'm sat at my PC I sit directly infront of it, so viewings angles are not too much of a problem.
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Bear in mind that restrictive viewing angles do not necessarily mean that it's only a problem if you're viewing the monitor from a large angle. Draw a line from your eye to the sides / top & bottom of your monitor -- you'll notice that the angle at the edges is greater than the angle at the centre.

TN film panels usually have rubbish vertical viewing angles, so when the monitors are larger, it gets more pronounced. This new panel might be good, but I'd personally wait for more reviews.
 
Is this screen likely to have an aspect mode to prevent it stretching the picture from my 360?

The closest resolution the 360 can do to 16:10 is 1280x768 but this is still going to be stretched 32 pixels without an aspect mode.
 
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