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Samsung SyncMaster T220 Review .
November 23, 2008 | Gadgets & Reviews | 1,716 views
Samsung Syncmaster LCD T220
I recently got myself a new Samsung T220 22″ LCD monitor and thought about sharing my first hand experience about this cool gadget.
Pros:
The look is just awesome
Fast response on gaming and graphics
Handles glare quite good
Out of the box color is almost as good as calibrated
DVI and VGA cables included
Cons:
A bit pricey
The stand cannot be tilted up or down
No bracket for mounting on walls
Surface is quite prone to scratching
Experiences and conclusions:
The Samsung T220 is a bit pricey still, at about Php18k but could really spice up your computer desk with its one fine stylish black finish. With a 2ms response time, the display does not flicker a bit and is fast enough for high definition movies and gaming with heavy graphics like Crysis and Fallout 3.
It has a dedicated input signal button, for me it’s convenient when I have two separate CPU’s running at the same time and switching between them back and forth (one using DVI and the other using VGA).
Given that it has 22″ big screen area with a maximum resolution of 1680 x 1050 pixels, a huge real estate to accommodate my 10mp photos while editing in Photoshop and Lightroom.
Overall, it handles my needs pretty well.
Samsung Syncmaster LCD T220 Buttons
Specifications
| Display | 22 inches TFT Active Matrix |
| Max. Resolution | 1680 x 1050 / 60hz |
| Dimensions (width x depth x height) | 20.5 x 8.5 x 17.4 inches |
| Weight | 12.8 lbs |
| Image aspect ratio | 16:10 |
| Image contrast ratio | 1000:1 / 20000:1 (dynamic) |
| Response time | 2ms |
| Control adjustments | Contrast, Sharpness, Brightness, H/V position, Color balance, Gamma correction |
| Signal Input | DVI-I, VGA |
| Signal Output | n/a |
| Power consumption | 47 watts |
| Viewing angle (horizontal / vertical) | 170 / 160 degrees |
Samsung Syncmaster LCD T220
My Samsung T220 22″ LCD
© Leonard Pe, 2008
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Hi Leonard,
Thanks very much for your short article on the Samsung T220. I’m currently looking for a new inexpensive monitor and this one is on my short list. There are not enough people out there in www-land giving reviews/opinions on monitors from a ‘photography’ point of view and as you will no doubt agree we have different requirements from the every-day user or gamer.
Appreciated :)
Cheers, Dave B
Hi! leonard just came to your blog after searching in google about calibrating T220. Have you really tested the color accuracy of it? Right now, windows vista ps cs3 is complaining the the default monitor setup is wrong… also upon using it on my osx leopard unit, font seems to be rough especially at the top menu bar :(
can you tell me more thoughts about your unit? (since you’re in photography, i’m into photoshop and illustrator more)
@Lexx – Hi Lexx, I can’t seem to give a concrete answer on your query since I am still using Windows XP, I have no problems with my setup. Vista on the other hand is a really buggy OS, I will still recommend using XP over it.
For the OSX, what resolution are you using? The T220 has native resolution of 1680×1050.
@Lexx – By the way I’m also into photoshop, so far the photos you see here are mostly processed using the T220 display. So far, I haven’t encountered any problems on color accuracy, prints also came out okay and have no significant color variations when compared to the monitor display.
Hi Leonard,
I have a SyncMaster T220 that I bought last year. No complaints when watching movies or anything on the internet. I do some photography too. I use the T220 as a parallel workspace to my IBM T43 laptop, which by the way has a far more inferior screen. So, most of my pictures look dull and lifeless on my laptop screen. However, on the other hand, the same pictures look stunning on the T220. Sometimes I wonder if the screen is just adding all the goodies to the picture. I don’t have any fancy equipment to calibrate my T220. Right now I am using it at brightness-60, contrast-85 on the “custom” magicbrite setting. I think I have it on gamma 1. I searched the web to find a good enough way to calibrate without calibrating equipment. Is there any simpler way to do it? What is your opinion on my current settings and would you recommend any changes?
Thank you.
@Priyatham Konda – just leave it at that. Probably your laptop screen is the one who has problems with the display. I have been using the T220 as my main monitor for editing images, I’ve opened my site using the computers at the office or somebody else’s computer, the images are just right so far. I haven’t changed the color settings or profile in my T220 whatsoever, all out of the box settings except for custom brightness at 30, contrast at 75. I also have tried printing the photos edited here at a local photolab, came out the same with what I see on the T220
Thanks Leonard, that makes me feel a lot better, because though i liked T220 a lot, I had a doubt whether if this is a suitable monitor for photographic editing. Having said that, I still find my screen to have brighter colors and contrast than my office computer too. Just so I can compare my settings, would you mind telling me the brightness and contrast you are using. I think it has also something to do with lighting in my room. Thanks a lot again for your help.
@Priyatham Konda – brightness at 30, contrast at 75.. that’s my setting at a room with enough bright light, my setting works in day time too (with room lights off). I just set my lcd settings as to what is comfortable to my eye, basically that’s what I follow. In my experience, it really helps in reducing eyestrain when you set your monitor (under normal lighting) to suite what’s comfortable to you. It may sound absurb, considering I edit photos and graphics designs, but hey, it works for me.
Oh wow! that half of what my screen brightness is…may be thats the reason why I still see my pictures sometimes too bright. I guess I need to play with the brightness a little. Something tells me for the lighting conditions I may have to tone down the brightness to somewhere between 30 and 45… Thanks a lot for sharing that information.