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While the display seems very good, it make a very unpleasant high-pitched whine when, for example, viewing white pages with only black text. The same problem is reported for the Samsung 957MB, so it's not just this unit.

After shopping for a crt monitor ,asking the usual questions,what is the dot pitch,resolution,menu adjustments etc.I decided on this model. Reason price.At $179.00 a 19" comparible model ran approx. $159 to $279. This model has all the features,color adj,20dot pitch,max res, you could want.It came with software so your printer will print the exact color on the screen,not only that but it adjusts to your lighting conditions.The screen is clear ,crisp,and amzingly sharp.So for $179.00 for a 19" you cant go wrong.Thats just my opinion.

I've got 2 of these on my system that I use for video editing and 3-D animation. I am very pleased. The picture quality is good. I have not noticed the above mentioned 'noise' but I normally have other equipment on in the room so it might go un-noticed. I bought mine Oct 15 2004 so perhaps that problem was fixed by then.
Though I never play games I have worked with some pretty high resolution images and the monitors really get the job done. Plus, they look darn good with my other equipment.

The little buttons on the sides were a little quarky for me at first since I was used to front controls. They 'look' smaller than my other 2 19s (CTX and Viewsonic) but actually have just as big of viewable screen. The footprint is comparable to my viewsonic which is pretty small for a 19 in CRT and takes up much less desktop than my CTX VL950 did. All in all good monitors and I'd certainly consider buying another.

I am having the same problem as the earlier reviewer. Intermittent high pitched noise from this monitor.

The monitor is stylish, decent picture, but unless you are deaf or enjoy returning this noise making monitor for warranty repair you might want to consider another manufacturer.

It is ashame that Samsung hasn't fixed this issue... Haven't run into a similar problem since back in 1995 with a CTX monitor. You would think companies would learn by now...

B rating for display, A for style and footprint and F for noise.

Unfortunately the noise is really annoying and the until didn't make any for the first 2 1/2 months.

They give you the dot pitch in horizontal measurements, not diagonal. This monitor might be fine for playing first person shooters, but for any sort of graphic design work, it's useless. There's bad moire on both sides, and any fine text looks very grainy. I tried two of them, thinking I may have just gotten a bad one, but no. I have a 17" flatscreen compaq running at 1200x1024 and the text looks at least 3 times better. This monitor maybe worth 170 bucks, but not to me. I'm returning it. The color is pretty great, the size (as small a footprint as a 17") is also nice, but I can't hack the text resolution.