Samsung S27A850D 27-Inch Screen LED-Lit Monitor

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Product Feature

• DVI-D + DisplayPort
• 7ms ray-to-Gray Response Time
• 97.1% Coverage of AdobeRGB C
• 178° Viewing Angle
• 300cd/m� Brightness
• 1000:1 Contrast Ratio; 2560 x 1440

Product Description

Samsung 27 inch S27A850D Widescreen 1,000:1 5ms 850 Series Business LED Monitor

Samsung S27A850D 27-Inch Screen LED-Lit Monitor Review

I purchased this for quality text rendering...resolution and general business applications/systems management. My prior monitor was the PVA panel based Samsung 214T.... a higher end display also, which has served me well over the years. Comparing the two side by side is almost comical. The clarity, brightness and contrast of this monitor are so far superior....it is not comparable. This could be partly due to the PVAs age (not sure). I am still using the Samsung 214T in an extended display config (good for conference calls and trainings I can move to the side)... When I move a window from the PLS to the PVA it is like going from a laser printer to dot matrix -- almost that profound. I have never seen a monitor so sharp and clear with text. Granted I have not owned a professional IPS monitor like high-end NEC etc... Yet I suspect it couldn't get much better than this for text clarity.

The anti-reflective treatment on this monitor is absolutely perfect (at least to my eyes) --- text is razor sharp with no fuzziness....yet no reflectivity from room lights that I can detect. I thought my 214T AR coat was good.....but now it looks grainy by comparison. Not sure what Samsung did here...but WOW. I have read some comments about other competing monitors, some more expensive, that have annoying artifacts induced by their screen treatments.

As far as configuration, I just set it for "Magic Brightness" and setup "Dynamic Contrast" mode...and let the monitor figure out things. Left everything else stock settings. Depending on what is on the screen..the brightness and contrast modulates. Generally, these changes are helpful. I wouldn't use this mode for watching movies critically, but it seems to make sense for typical working applications. I did try a movie with it on, and it didn't make any egregious mistakes. When a window gets very large and black, brightness is pulled down a tad too much in this "Magic" mode. But nit-picking here. You can always shut this off (off by default

Rendering of video, pictures and colors seems outstanding, although I am not using this monitor for graphic arts or professional photography. I feel no need to "calibrate" the display. I stare at monitors all day, and my eyes get strained easily....so I need to give them all the help they can get. This monitor helps that.

One negative is a positive too... this thing has really high resolution! But this is why the text looks great and sharp. But as my eyes are getting older...small text is difficult. So I need to adjust the font scaling in Windows7 to a pretty high level. Currently I have it set at 140% (XP Style scaling). Of course windows programs and menus sometimes don't work well with such scaling.....So these are added issues I didn't deal with with before. But in general...it is not a big deal...I can work with it. On web pages I often am hitting "Ctrl + " making text bigger. But when it scales, text is so easy to read because of the extra high pixel density and clarity... it is worth the trouble. I can easily see two full web pages, side by side (with text incredibly sharp, although small) -- with extra room on the sides for another window about 1/2 as wide. This is lots of info. I am not a huge fan of 16:9 displays for computing. But alas, this is what they make now. But at 2560X1440....it has more pixels in each dimension than most 27 inch monitors available today. So the 16:9 is adaptable, albeit I'd like a less wide and more tall aspect ratio if given a choice.

Build quality is just OK. The panel is a bit flimsier than I would expect for the money. Overall it is light-weight for its size compared to an IPS display.

Some reports claim there is backlight bleed of the edge LED backlight... I checked mine with black display, and I can see it if the screen is black (mostly towards the bottom). But for 99% of what I use it for....I don't see it at all... so it is a non-issue for me. If you are playing games that have lots of black, it maybe can be a factor to consider.

The monitor puts out very little heat....which is great for keeping my office from heating up. I think my much smaller 214T puts out more BTUs (I suspect).

I see no dead pixels...and contrast seems quite uniform to my very subjective non-measured perspective. Although the viewing angles look just as good in the specs as an IPS display, I can see changes in contrast/color as I look from the sides. In looking at some tests that have recently come out, I can validate that this monitor doesn't do quite as well as an IPS in this regard.

The only downside of this monitor's connectivity for me are no VGA ports-- -well dah..VGA couldn't nearly drive this native resolution(nor standard DVI (needs DVI-D))...but I would have liked VGA anyways just to use native scaling. This is a serious monitor..and VGA is not serious, plus adding analog circuitry probably would jack the price up more. This is partly why I keep my much older PVA monitor...I use a 2nd VGA input on that for a server in the room.

For a professional technical/business user, who likes very sharp and clear text, and lots of screen-real estate, better than average viewing angles, I highly recommend it. I did not buy from Amazon as they didn't sell it direct. Hopefully they will eventually. It is expensive...but for critical eyes, worth it.

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