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Samsung B2230 22-Inch Widescreen LCD Monitor - Glossy Black | 
| Brand: Samsung
Category: Personal Computer
List Price: $238.00
Buy New: $159.00
as of 9/10/2010 01:50 CDT details
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New (29) Used (3) Refurbished (1) from $135.99
Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 91
Color: Black
Media: Personal Computers
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Display Size: 15
Shipping Weight (lbs): 9.6
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 20.6 x 15.7
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MPN: B2230
Model: B2230
UPC: 729507811703
EAN: 0729507811208
ASIN: B003CLBVAW
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| Features:
| • | The MagicEco feature allows you to work at 100%, 75% or 50% brightness, to reduce energy usage. | | • | Simple and elegant design featuring a rich, glossy black finish which is accentuated by the clear, crystal-like acrylic along the lower bezel. | | • | 70,000:1 Dynamic contrast ratio creates deeper, more dramatic dark tones and brighter more striking light tones. | | • | 16:9 widescreen offers clear, distortion-free images and a lot more space to have a lot more fun. Made for multimedia and optimized for HD content. | | • | Low power consumption technology reduces energy use and energy bills even further. | | • | 5ms Response time gives you razor sharp motion graphics for movies, games, and internet streamed content without the motion blurring |
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Product Description
To save energy and money, the B2230 MagicEco feature allows you to work at 100%, 75% or 50% brightness. And for ease of use, the MagicReturn feature automatically displays dual-monitor content on a single monitor when one monitor is powered off.
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 8
 Very good monitor August 30, 2010
Joseph Croswell (Arlington, VA United States)
I bought three of these and only had one partially dead pixel on one of them, that's not very noticeable. They're bright, provide good contrast, and good color. The pixel density at 1920X1080 provides a very sharp picture. I'm very happy with these monitors, particularly for the price.
 Poor design, picture tough to adjust to look good August 26, 2010
M. Oliver (Phoenix, MD)
I am the admin for a 40 person firm, have bought hundreds of monitors. I have bought many samsung's - which until now have been wonderful. This one is a dog. First, as others have noted, the screen angle is not movable or tiltable and tilts forward to the point that it is annoying. The only way to fix it is to put something physical under the screen foot, which actually makes it unstable. The screen foot is very flimsy, and connected to the screen with a small clip. You cannot carry this monitor upside down by the foot! (and I have lugged a lot of screens around)
The picture is awful out of the box - way, way too bright and washed out. I installed the "magic" software . . . it is horrible. It does have a number of presets - none of them make the screen look better - the cinema mode so oversharpens the images they are terrible to look at; after a fair amount of fiddling, I got an ok picture. The software also has various viewing angles as presets but this is silly - who is going to set one when someone is in your office and wants to look at monitor 2 when you want to look at monitor 1? Just stupid.
Going to return these, really the worst Samsung monitors I have ever seen. Buyers, please NOTE: in the specification (at least on [...]) it says the stand is adjustable - it is NOT adjustable; also, in one picture, the image shows the screen tilting BACK . . . it cannot ever be configured this way. The foot and stand have a fixed way they go together (little notches) and the screen will NOT EVER TILT BACK. It is IMPOSSIBLE to see this screen if you are standing up and anything over say about 6ft, the forward tilt angle makes the screen unreadable.
Very, very disappointed, and the description for this on [...] is just wrong. Returning mine immediately.
One glaring design omission August 4, 2010
cavenewt (Jackson, WY)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a beautiful monitor in every way but one, which will prevent me from ordering more like it. There is NO TILT ADJUSTMENT in the stand! We had to stack books under it to get a good viewing angle. As an IT professional, I have bought dozens of displays, and even old CRT monitors had a tilt adjustment. Sheesh.
 21.5 not 22" June 18, 2010
B. YA (MASS USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this monitor for my eyefinity setup. I thought its a 22" but its only a 21.5" monitor.
But the monitor still looks good and the clearity is superb. Bought me another 22" and use this as
a monitor for my other pc.
Decent, but not the best in class. May 31, 2010
PC Nut
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
This is my third Samsung PC LCD, owning both a 22" 1680x1050 226BW for over three years and a 25.5" 1920x1200 T260 for a year (had a bad 22" and got it replaced - the 226BW reviewed here January 19, 2008). Anyway, I bought the B2230 for a 3-LCD gaming rig setup. If it could be done over, I'd have bought another monitor, specifically the P2250, which I'll buy for the 3rd LCD to complete the setup.
First, the pixel pitch on this monitor is about the same as the 22" and 25.5" (.28xxx mm - the P2250 has .24xxx pixel density - more pixel density = better display quality). I was hoping for a little sharper clarity for a 1920x1080 resolution monitor in this size, especially considering the 25.5" shares nearly the same pixel density over 4" more of screen real estate. The 25.5" is as clear as the 21.5" in website text and the holy grail of display quality for me: cockpit instrument readability in Microsoft Flight Simulator X. There is of course a sharpness option on the menu, but it just doesn't help much for what I was expecting.
With that said, it's still an okay monitor for the average user. It's a few pounds lighter than the 22" and runs very cool. The touch menu options and feel are pretty standard for Samsung. People new to Samsung's PC LCDs may find the front bezel touch "buttons" awkward and hard to work with, but it sure beats trying to deal with Samsung's buttons on the side and bottom of my other two monitors blindly. Similarly, the gloss bezel may be a put-off to some and definitely is a dust and fingerprint magnet. But I like the gloss - it appears to be the norm these days from manufacturers and matches everything else in the house TV/monitor wise. No red "touch of color" here to match the gorgeous T260, but it still looks good on the desk. The mount does allow for tilt, but as so typical in this price range, no height adjustment.
Finally, the brightness of this monitor needs to be toned way down out of the box, to less than 60%. You will be spending some time calibrating this to your liking. All in all for those who want a run-of-the-mill 21.5" LCD that's 1080p capable, this is an acceptable monitor, but as mentioned, not recommended for those who appreciate higher pixel density output. Think of this LCD as the Enterprise rental Buick of 1080p Samsung monitors: it serves the purpose and grandpa thinks it's awesome, but not something to brag about to friends.
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