Samsung Touch Of Color T260 25.5" LCD Monitor

Customer Reviews

Great Monitor, Highly Recommened

2008-08-03
I bought this monitor in the last week and own a few other LCD's around the house even very expensive top end sony bravia xbr's. I have to say this is up there with my new favorite LCD's in the house.

Looks:
The housing (screen bezel) on this monitor is stunning in design. It looks like a clear thick candy coating of plastic was formed around the monitors frame. You can see the light refract around the edges of the thicker clear plastic and it looks really eye catching. Considering buying another this week and using them in a dual monitor setup. Even though this is a touch of color (red) in normal lighting conditions you dont even see much of the red (only at the bottom), normally it looks almost pure black at the core of the clear coating. However, if you shine a flashlight or very bright light on the montitor's frame you can see its all dark red and not black. I wasnt sure I was going to like this whole touch of color thing but now that I own it I have no objections. The rear of the monitor looks as good as the front. You could easily have this on a desk where people could see the back and it would still look sharp. The back is rounded slightly and has a big Samsung logo on it. Also the connection ports have a plastic cover to hide the works so it maintains a sleek look even with wires going in.

Function:
I am a graphic artist and avid PC gamer and so far I am loving this monitor. The Magicbright and MagicColor features really help to simplify and amaze you with color/contrast management. I have the colors looking spot on now when I do my graphic editing. As an artist I can tell you I am totally happy with the look. As a gamer I am very happy as well. I have noticed that I get screen tearing a lot more noticable on this monitor then others I have owned. I am not sure why. However, turning on a games vsync function helps remedy that problem. Some games lack vsync option and for those games moving the screen around at extremely fast rate or patterns moving very fast will cause screen tearing. Outside of that everything else is flawless. Since screen tearing can be fixed with vsync I dont knock the monitor for this. I will note that the 5ms time seems to be fine for my games. I get no ghosting at high speeds at all things look great. 1920x1200 resolution on Crysis with high settings is a thing of beauty! :)

I highly recommend this monitor for this price point and this size. Its an eye catcher both on and off the screen.

awesome.

2008-08-01
I don't do serious photo editing and can't really tell apart from true/natural colors, but for me it doesn't matter. this monitor is so crisp - it displays everything nicely. i have played 1080p videos and the quality is excellent. the blacks are really black and the whites are white, probably since it has that 20,000:1 DC ratio. you can adjust brightness/contrast/color settings on your own or use their MagicBright presets for text, internet, gaming etc.

the viewing angle is pretty good if you keep the monitor somewhat at eye level. in addition, it doesn't tilt THAT much, and it does swivel. no dead pixels. there's really not any ghosting involved with movies, but i have yet to try video games.

the only thing is that there's no mounting holes and the back has this flimsy panel cover to hide all your wires.

overall, a monitor that will boost your productivity because it's so big-- it looks sexy too.

even more than expected

2008-07-31
great resolution. great color. seamless interaction with XP. low power. best monitor I've ever had.

NOT a Good choice for Serious Photo Editing

2008-07-18
The T260 is a TN panel with a very narrow viewing angle: from top to bottom and left to right there is a considerable variation in brightness and color accuracy. I found myself unable to get an accurate gamma setting on this monitor and after a week of trying I gave up and returned the monitor for a refund. For Internet surfing, watching videos and gaming this monitor will do the job. For serious photo work forget it.

Samsung TOC T260

2008-07-17
First off, its good looking! Going from a Dell 1907P to the 26" Samsung took some minor adjustments in resolution with an nvidia 7900GS graphics card on windows vista. There is an update at samsung for the driver. Wanted to go 30" but, would have had to get a new graphics card. I heard about dead pixels on some, I have none. Your graphics card is what makes your monitor good or bad. Pay attention to what your graphics card can support or ask someone that knows.

Wow! What a beautiful image of anything you bring up!

2008-07-16
Marketing description is not available.