Samsung SyncMaster 171 V - LCD display - TFT - 17" - 1280 x 1024 - 250 cd/m2 - 400:1 - 0.264 mm - VGA

 (8 customer reviews)

I purchased a Syncmaster 171v around a month back. The installation went off smoothly using supplied CD s/w and the display is sharp and clear till now. Most application s/w and games look good in it. It's higher contrast ratio of 400:1 gives text & graphics a crisper look. It's anyway much better than my previous 17" Samsung CRT.
However, on the downside, the supplied Natural Color s/w is a bit confusing to adjust for best settings. Related to this is the fact that the colors don't quite look rich enough. Another prob. is that my external TV tuner sytem (PAL based) is not compatible with it (though it worked well with the earlier CRT). I don't know whether I am facing this problem alone.
I would recommend this LCD monitor for anybody keen on a good, stable display and who doesn't want the very best, and therefore more expensive stuff :-)

I bought a 171v at [a local store] for [$$$], with a...rebate. Installation and setup was mindlessly simple. I found the Natural Color SW to be useless. After a week I exchanged the unit for another 171v, as there was a noticable color/contrast gradient from top to bottom. The replacement unit had the same color/contrast gradient from top to bottom, although less pronounced. I am not sure I will keep the unit or get a refund and buy an LCD monitor with a digital input.

I just upgraded from this monitor to a new one after using this monitor for close to a decade. It's been trusty, it followed me around to LAN parties in high school, served as an extra screen for my laptop in undergraduate, and will now serve the same function on a desktop in graduate school. Response time was great - my tech savy friends told me I'd never be able to compete without a CRT for gaming - it never was an issue. This monitor was great for video editing, photo editing, and all the other stuff a creative person did during the first decade of the 21st century.

After this stellar performance, one can understand why I've decided to stay in house. My new monitor is also a SynchMaster - I can only hope it does half as well as the last one. While it blows the old monitor away in a side by side comparison, my new monitor just isn't built with the sturdiness and rigidity I feel in my 171v.