Price
AU$4599.00
Review Date
Wednesday, 29th of September, 2004
What's Hot
High image quality, very adjustable
What's Not
Poor motion playback
The Final Word
Outstanding image quality and full adjustability options make the Samsung SyncMaster 243t an excellent pick for business applications.
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Samsung SyncMaster 243T - Perspective
Samsung SyncMaster 243t
Laura Blackwell (PC World) 29/09/2004 12:34:11

Samsung's 24" SyncMaster 243t has no desire to be a TV; it just wants to be a great monitor. It's one of the few wide screens we've tested that offers no component, composite or S-Video inputs.

When we tested the monitor, we judged its text display and graphics to be among the best of any of the 23"-and-up models we've looked at. The 243t made an especially strong showing on our test screens of a colour scale and of fonts in different sizes.

Unlike most other wide screens, the 243t supports a full range of adjustments--including pivot-- enhancing its bona fides as an excellent business display. Its height adjustment feature is an awkward affair that requires you to push a button in the back of the base, but its tilt, swivel, and pivot adjustments are smooth.

A slow, 25-millisecond response time makes the 243t ill-suited for video playback. When we watched a scene from our test movie on the display, we saw distracting motion artefacts. In what may be a bid to leave those artefacts behind, Samsung now offers the SyncMaster 242mp, a 24" model with a rated 16ms response time and with composite, S-Video and component inputs.

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