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Samsung SyncMaster 2693HM 25.5-inch LCD Monitor | 
 enlarge | Brand: Samsung
Category: Personal Computer
List Price: $644.99
Buy New: $478.99
You Save: $166.00 (26%)
New (4) Used (1) Refurbished (1) from $410.00
Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 216
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Native Resolution: 26
Display Size: 26
Shipping Weight (lbs): 21.3
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 23.5 x 18
nv:Display Type: Widescreen LCD
Viewable Screen Size: 25.5 inches
Input Video Signal: DVI
Input Video Signal: D-Sub
Input Video Signal: HDMI
Speakers: 4W (2W x 2Ch.)
Contrast Ratio: Dynamic 3000:1
Contrast Ratio: Static 1000:1
Brightness: 400 cd/m
Response Time: 5 ms
Horizontal Viewing Angle: 160 degrees
Vertical Viewing Angle: 160 degrees
Maximum Resolution: 1920 x 1200
Cabinet Color: Black
Dimensions With Stand: 23.54" x 18.03" x 9.84"
Unit Weight: 21.3 lbs.
MPN: LS26KIEEFV/XAA
Model: 2693HM
UPC: 729507802572
EAN: 0729507802572
ASIN: B0012TVEOO
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | 25.5 Screen Size | | • | 1920 x 1200 Native Resolution | | • | 400 cd/m Brightness | | • | 3000 - 1 Dynamic Contrast Ratio; 1000 - 1 Contrast Ratio | | • | 5 ms Response Time |
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Product Description
The 2693HM has everything that you need. With a Height Adjustable Stand (HAS), built-in-speakers, HDMI technology, full 1080p input and fast response time, you will be able to power through a work day and watch a movie or play games with all of the extra free time that you will have. Not to mention, the eye catching bezel design will fit perfectly in public view or in the comfort of your home office. The 2693HM is Microsoft Vista certified and works hard while looking good. With the 2693HM it is not hard to imagine.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 20 more reviews...
 Pretty good for the price November 23, 2008
SoCal Guy 333 (Camarillo, CA)
Bought this monitor after reading several reviews at different websites. Here's my take:
-People that make a big deal about the dim monitor touch controls on the lower right of the bezel are blowing things WAY out of proportion. I mean, how often do you need to adjust your monitor anyways? Sure they're a bit hard to see, but I'd rather have them that way than glaring out. Subtle makes sense here.
- Read a complaint somewhere about the blue LED light in the lower right hand corner. The irony here is that if I hadn't read the complaint, I'd never have thought anything of it! Now I occasionally glance at it but really, again, NBD. Would it be nice if it went from green to red when going from receiving a signal to no signal? Sure, it would. My old Sony did that and it seems pretty smart, but I never thought anything of the green LED on THAT monitor while on either. I've purchased many Samsung products and it appears that they like to use blue LEDs a lot. So it's blue and it stays on even when there's no signal. Whatever.. it's not that bright IMO. There's an on/off switch in the back if you want the monitor to completely shut down.
-My biggest disappointment is the one dead pixel I had. (I hear some people get over 4!) IMO, Samsung makes WAY too many LCDs not to have their process down well enough to put out LCDs without dead pixels. Just should not happen. I've learned to live with it instead of returning the monitor because it's not worth paying way more for another brand and risking getting more dead pixels.
-Brightness-Many complained about monitor coming out of the box WAY bright. Turned it down, it's fine now. Again, overhyped, NBD.
-Color settings were easy to get the way I like them.
-Display not perfectly perfectly centered on viewable to screen. There's about 1/64 of an inch more border on the left and top than on the right and bottom.
-The screen can rotate for portrait viewing which is supposed to be a feature, but I don't need it and wish there were a way you could lock the panel into landscape position perfectly. Once I set it up I found myself having to put a level on it to make sure it was straight and not titled.
-If there were a 1/2 star ratings I'd give it a 4.5 for the dead pixel, the viewing area not perfectly centerd on the panel, and the fact that the blue LED doesn't go out or dim further when there's no signal, but again we're splitting hairs here.
-The positives is that it's huge, the colors are vivid, the contrast is great and it's a helluva monitor for what I paid (around $467). Super for viewing photos, watching video, or just about anything you want in a monitor. Unless you're a super picky graphic artist type that needs unequivocal and absolute monitor perfection (is there truly one out there for less than $1500?), I think you'll be happy with this one.
Primo November 18, 2008
Triplefault (Earth)
The 2693 has a great black and that makes everything else so much better. I've been using several other monitors (19, 20, 22") which, except for the 19" L90D+, have poor black, and make things muddy looking. I knew the black was not so good on those other monitors, but I have all four hooked up next to each other and the difference is obvious. I have the brightness set to 0 and contrast 100. I can't think of a single thing I don't like about this monitor. Not one. (update: the blue power LED is about 10x bigger than it needs to be for me, in a darkened office, but that can be patched with tape.)
Note to buyers: there is a real power switch in the back, next to where the power cord plugs in. Make sure you turn that on. The front panel switch is a soft power switch, which only goes to stand-by. All the front power switches are touch - you only need touch them, no press needed.
I used my video card's wizard (nvidia 8800gts/512; gts/320) to adjust the colors using its very simple color-alignment tool for R/G/B. Piece of cake - just slide the middle band left and right until it matches the top/bottom bands. I didn't adjust colors at the monitor at all, only the brightess(0)/contrast(100).
Tidbit: The L90D+ didn't need any adjusting at all for the color (it already was fine). The others, including this 2693, did. I don't quite know what this does, but it looks okay to me. And I don't see any sort of tone change from top to bottom like one reviewer had. Not that I can notice, anyway. I use PS11 (buuuuggy as any released-way-too-soon software) and everything looks fine.
Good screen, complaints about enclosure November 7, 2008
MaxConcrete (Dallas, TX)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I use the screen for non-demanding tasks (software development), and the screen quality meets or exceeds expectations.
My complaint is about the plastic enclosure. First, the buttons are touch-sensitive areas of the plastic rather than real buttons, and I constantly have trouble getting the buttons to respond when adjusting the monitor.
Second, the plastic around the screen is highly reflective. Even worse, there is a mirror-like metallic strip beneath the main plastic enclosure of my unit (purchased Sept 2008). When there is a bright light behind me such as the sun in the window, the light reflects off the plastic frame and the metallic strip, producing a sharp and annoying bright point of light.
Simply put, the best monitor I have ever used. Ever. November 5, 2008
Mark Twain
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I am a part-time professional photographer so monitor quality is important to me. I have used mostly Apple brand monitors over the past few years because I have found that they were the sharpest and most accurate for the price. I never could quite get settled on a particular one, however. I have tried many, many other brands of LCD monitors (besides Apple) over the years trying to get that perfect fit and I believe my serch is over. I love this monitor.
Apple 20" Cinema display/20" Dell/20" LG: awesome monitors for most purposes, however the size is somewhat limiting for daily editing work.
Apple 22" Acrylic Cinema display/Samsung 22"/LG 22": terrible. I don't know what it is about the 22" size but I have never seen a good display at this size. The pixels always look washed out and fuzzy at this size, which I have attributed to using the same resolution as the 20" monitors but stretched to a larger canvas.
Apple 23" Cinema display: again an awesome monitor but the 1920x1200 resolution packed into a 23" size means ultra sharp display for editing accuracy but leaves you squinting trying to read email or internet sites. The resolution is so fine (at the optimal res) that for me it was too tiny and hard to read.
Apple 24" iMac/24" Samsung: a noticeable improvement on the 23" size since it has the same amount of pixels on a 1" larger screen, but not a huge difference.
Samsung 25.5" (this one right here): just right. The same amount of pixels as the 23"/24" offerings with 2.5" and 1.5" more inches of screen space respectively. This means you get the same resolution for editing as on a 23"/24" screen but you can still actually read words on the screen without squinting. Photo editing is also easier and smoother with the larger pixels. This monitor is a pure joy to work with right out of the box. very other monitor I have ever used took some getting used to but this one is off and running right out of the box.
I was worried that like the 22" monitors that have the same resolution as the 20" monitors, this would mean that this monitor would look fuzzy or washed out compared to the razor sharp 23" Apple Cinema Display. Thankfully, at least with this unit (I can't speak for other 25.5"/26" offerings) the picture is just as sharp, just as contrasty, just as everything as the 23" display only like I said easier to read and easier to edit on. I just can't stress enough how happy I am with this monitor.
Awesome monitor! October 27, 2008
Yotuki
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I replaced a 19" Viewsonic VX924 with this monitor, and so far my choice has been a good one. My monitor had 0 dead pixels, which was the first thing I looked for when I got it connected. The second thing I did when I got the monitor, was turn the brightness down. I think I burned a hole in my retinas... No joke, this thing is BRIGHT.
The screen is gorgeous, and the housing is attractive as well. The colors really seem to "pop" compared to my last monitor. I really like all the physical adjustments that can be made to the monitor, which aren't present in some of Samsung's other monitors (the ones with the TV tuners and the boatload of input connections). I think this is a much better "computer" monitor.
As for the negatives on this monitor, I have only one complaint. I thought that everyone that complains they can't see the monitor controls was just a blind whiner, but I stand corrected. The controls are VERY hard to see in dim lighting. Even in not so dim lighting, you still need to get up close to read the controls. The faint wording might not be so bad if there were raised buttons (after a while you might not need to read them, much like how you memorize the television remote's button layout and don't have to look every time you want to change the channel), but they are all touch-sensitive. Even after you dial in the monitor to the proper color/brightness, you'll still encounter this problem every time you want to turn it on/off.
I would give the monitor 5 stars, except for the bad button design.
My other gripe is not monitor related, but Amazon related. They shipped my already boxed monitor inside a larger box with some butcher-paper used as padding, but they didn't use enough of it. There was (and I'm not exaggerating) probably 12" of extra space in the box that was not occupied by butcher paper. This means that my monitor made its journey from the east/midwest US all the way to California sliding back and forth inside its box. They should have just put a shipping label on the monitor box and sent it that way, it probably would have been safer. Plus, why even bother spending the money and wasting packing materials if you aren't going to pack it right?
A buddy of mine ordered a camera from Amazon a few weeks before I ordered my monitor, and his item was packed with the same lack of care. Maybe we got the same packing person.
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