Samsung SyncMaster 27IN 2560x1440 LED PLS LCD Monitor Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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1,625 words · ~8 min read
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welcome to a very exciting unboxing this is the Samsung sync Master something or
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other s27a
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850d so Samsung's not real great at
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naming their monitors in a way that is like you know dresses it up you know
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it's like a numeric numbering scheme
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however if they were going to call this something they would call it the Samsung
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display that might actually get lonus to change his monitor that's right so I actually have
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a 305t plus that I bought way back in the day so 30-in monitor so I'm not
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going to be getting a resolution upgrade I'm not going to be getting a size
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upgrade this is a 27in display with a 2560 by 1440 resolution so yes for you
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purists out there this is a
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16x9 monitor it is not 16 by10 however I
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would argue that once you get up to this kind of a size at this kind of a
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resolution it starts to matter a lot less because you have that outstanding
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vertical space to work with regardless
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of whether you're using 16x9 or 16x 10
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just going to pull all the accessories out here and we're going to proceed with
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the unboxing very slim very low profile stand I'm already impressed with that so
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why am I so excited about this when I already have a
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305t and the answer is that this monitor
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uses a new display technology called PLS
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so you guys are probably familiar with MVA PVA IPS and
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TN IPS until now certain kinds of ips
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have been the highest quality displays in terms of color reproduction in terms
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terms of vibrancy in terms of viewing angle so whether you're looking at it
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from here or from here from here IPS has delivered the best experience now VA is
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sort of a a second but not that far away
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uh alternative to IPS with the advantage
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of being less expensive and finally TN
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is fast TN is um fine for gamers who
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don't care about the color accuracy and
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are more concerned with uh less motion blur uh which is often referred to as
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ghosting but that's a misnomer they're actually different things so less motion
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blur um but it does not deliver a very
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satisfying experience for professionals who are doing video or photo editing or
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who are concerned about color accuracy in any way at all honestly I'm not a big
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TN Advocate um my monitor is a VA panel
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some of the high-end 30in monitors are IPS panels so whatever that's all
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neither here nor there at this point in time why am I excited about PLS the
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reason for that is the first time I saw a PLS
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display was on the Samsung Galaxy Tab
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10.1 now the Galaxy Tab 10.1 if you
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watched my tablet Roundup was what I declared to be hands down the best
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screen on any tablet yes that includes
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the IPS displays on like the ASUS
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transformer it includes the IPS display
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on the iPad 2 which is widely regarded to be an excellent display fantastic
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display in terms of color oh man this is hard to assemble in midair like
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this okay got it in terms of color in
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terms of viewing angle just brightness
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everything just gorgeous great display and the Galaxy Tab 10.1 blew it
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out of the water in my opinion so let's
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have a look at this Monitor and see sort
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of the the aesthetic here that I think
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is of what I think is going to be one of
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the most interesting monitors that I have ever unboxed or ever seen in action
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so here we go pretty standard pretty professional look this is a business
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class monitor so you're not going to find any sort of hint of color like
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designs or any of that consumer stuff you got a black bezel you got got your
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on screen display navigation buttons here there's your menu there's your down
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your up your sensor which is cool okay so it does have that sensor on it so
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hold on I'm not sure if on this particular monitor it senses whether
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you're in front of it or not give me a sec I'm going to find out so yes that's what I thought it was
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that's the Eco motion sensor which will actually turn the monitor on when you
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sit in front of it and turn it off when you go away here we have the source
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selection and we've got our power so there's not a whole lot of Intrigue
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there this has a nice finish to it though so you can see this actually has
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like kind of a brushed look although it's not made of aluminum which is good
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because as soon as you touch it it would put IR removable fingerprints all over
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it and then it would look horrible forever all right let's turn it around
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and let's have a look at the thinness of the panel so it is Led back lit which is
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going to improve your power economy as well as improve the profile of it so
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it's not super thick but this is not sort of a repeat of their 3D monitor
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which I have out there that's okay you can't really see it from here which is
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almost as thin as an iPhone now Samsung
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has not skimped on the io for this particular panel we have audio in
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headphones out a usb3 hub yeah yeah 3
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usb3 ports there's your USB 3 in so I'm
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very excited to see that included very much a Next Generation feature here we
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have our power in our DVI in 2 DVI in1
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so you have dual DV in DisplayPort in having these kinds of input options is
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outstanding because remember this is a very high resolution panel 2560 x40 that
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means that it requires a significant amount of processing in order to process
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those images on the fly so here let's go
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ahead and turn it this way so you can see it has portrait
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mode it has land Escape mode it I don't
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know if it y okay so it turns this much
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and it turns this much okay and we've
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also got a height adjustable stand up to here and down to
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there let me just see if there's anything that I'm missing here in terms
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of what Samsung has to say for themselves I haven't gone over the
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included accessories yet so I'm going to go ahead and oh it says it comes with
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four usb3 ports well where's the last one then hold on just a minute I don't
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see another one okay well we're going to say three for the time being and then
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perhaps it's four uh it does come with a dual link DVI cable remember you will
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need a dual link compatible cable and dual link
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compatible video card because this is
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like once again a very high resolution panel it comes with the USB 3 A2B
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connector that you will need in order to hook up the Monitor and let me just have
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a look at what else we've got so PLS technology yes PLS like I said I can't
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emphasize this enough better than anything else out
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there in my limited experience so far which is limited only because I I was
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only able to see it in a tablet form factor this is going to be the true acid
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test for me because this is a full size
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monitor with a nice matte screen because
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remember all those tablets are using glossy screens so I can truly evaluate
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it with a matte screen and I can compare
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it to IPS monitors and VA monitors that
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I have used in the past so Samsung's
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claim for this particular display which I did write down because I thought it
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pretty much SU summarized it was that the new PLS technology delivers picture
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perfect and natural looking images for more accurate photo editing and more
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spectacular gaming so yeah I think that's pretty much it I
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want you guys to stay tuned on my ncixcom channel so that you can have a
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look at this thing in action because we are going to fire it up right now I
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don't really have the time but I'm going to actually use the thing give you my
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Impressions and let you know what I think of this PLS monitor is available a
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couple of different sizes we have the 27 in here but it is also available in 24
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in and if you are interested in the specs so the 1,00 to1 dynamic contrast
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ratio although I have to tell you guys that's very meaningless because uh
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something with a 30,000 to1 contrast ratio can often not look as good as
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something with a legitimate 1,000 to1 contrast ratio it just depends on how
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it's being rated 5 millisecond grade to grade response time which is also
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completely meaningless I will play some games on it I'll let you guys know how it goes and that that's pretty much it
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