Samsung SM-2693HM 26" VS Dell 2707WFP 27"

MT01XP · 7 Feb 2008 at 19:40

I'm looking for a nice big monitor to watch movies and play FPS games on, in the region of 26"-27"

I've seen almost no mention of the Samsung SM-2693HM on the forums here and wondered how it compares to the popular Dell 2707WFP 27"?

Also, I can't seem to find the SM-2693HM on Samsung's website?!?!

I've sourced the stats below:

Contrast Ratio: 3000:1 Samsung VS 1000:1 Dell
Brightness: 450 cd/m² Dell VS 400cd/m2 Samsung
Response Time: 5ms Samsung VS 6ms Dell
Viewing Angle: 160°/ 160° Samsung VS 89°/ 89° Dell
Viewable Size: 27" Dell vs 25.5" Samsung
Price: £384.99 Samsung VS £479.99 Dell

...however I appreciate that what's on the spec sheet, doesn't always equate to a real life situation.

Which is the better monitor?

MT01XP · 7 Feb 2008 at 19:55

MT01XP said:
Also, I can't seem to find the SM-2693HM on Samsung's website?!?!

Aha, managed to find it on the US site.

MT01XP · 7 Feb 2008 at 20:02

Hmmm just seen this on the Samsung site:

Contrast Ratio - DC3000:1 (1000:1)

Does that mean it's actually the same as the Dell? :confused:

DavidB · 8 Feb 2008 at 13:02

It means when dynamic contrast is on theres a 3000:1 contrast ratio. But some people don't like DC, so theres an option to switch it off and use the panels standard 1000:1 contrast ratio.

wikipedia said:
A notable recent development in the LCD technology is the so called "dynamic contrast" (DC). When there is a need to display a dark image, the display would underpower the backlight lamp (or decrease the aperture of the projector's lens using an iris), but will proportionately amplify the transmission through the LCD panel. This gives the benefit of realizing the potential static contrast ratio of the LCD panel in dark scenes, when the image is watched in a dark room. The drawback is that if a dark scene does contain small areas of superbright light, they may be sacrificed and blown out.
The trick for the display is to determine how much of the highlights may be unnoticeably blown out in a given image under the given ambient lighting conditions.
Brightness, as it is most often used in marketing literature, refers to the emitted luminous intensity on screen measured in candela per square metre (cd/m2). The higher the number, the brighter the screen.
It is also common to market only the dynamic contrast ratio capability of a display (when it is better than its static contrast ratio), which should not be directly compared to the static contrast ratio. A plasma display with a static 5000:1 contrast ratio will show superior contrast to an LCD display with 5000:1 dynamic and 1000:1 static contrast ratio when the input signal contains full range of brightnesses from 0 to 100% simultaneously. However they will be on par when input signal ranges only from 0 to 20% brightness.