Pretty good monitor but Samsung software updates detract from the product significantly
932523
It's a pretty good TV.  I use it as a computer monitor and as others have noted one of the HDMI inputs will support full UHD resolution (3840x2160) @60Hz.  That makes this a good choice as a monitor.  My major complaint about it is that it wants to be a computer as well.  It wants to go out and connect to things on the Internet, especially for software updates.  This has irked me in the past but this week I was really bitten by the latest software update (this is not uncommon for Samsung TVs in my experience).  At this point I have to set my computer to never turn off the monitor because if it does then the monitor never comes back and everything has to be restarted.

I have done what I should have done a while ago and gone into my router and blocked this from accessing the internet or being accessed by anything else in my network.  Unfortunately there's no rollback on the new "improved" software so I'm more or less stuck with a slightly hobbled setup now.  My mistake for ever allowing it to make changes to itself (there's no way to disable it on the TV).  Maybe I'll take a chance on some future software update as this is pretty annoying and makes me like this much less as a monitor.
3661480
I purchased this monitor after trying another 23" LED based monitor from a competitor.  That monitor's colors were way off (too cool / purple / blue) , and it seemed overly bright, like staring into a flourescent light - after a few minutes massive eye strain resulted.  Samsung has done a much better job in this regard - the colors here are not too far off my old LCD monitors - side by side there's an apparent slight difference but not so much that it bothers me as the other monitor did.  If I were a pro photographer or videographer and needed a monitor with 100% accurate colors I probably would skip this, but for most of us it should be fine.  Bottom line is, the display is bright, large and beautiful.

The main negatives are a somewhat awkward menu structure, and the buttons to manipulate the menu are on the right side of the monitor - on the rear surface - so you have to reach behind the monitor and you end up operating them by feel.  Not really too good.  This is also really inconvenient if you want to use the monitor in a dual monitor set up where the right side of this monitor would be right up against the left side of a neighboring monitor, because then, instead of reaching around the side of the monitor to get at the menu buttons, you'd end up having to reach up from below, too, which is even more awkward.

The other negative is that the whole base / support structure leaves something to be desired - for whatever reason, LED monitors anywhere near this price point seem to all have a single arm that screws into a base plate with a single screw.  Any vibrations from your desk (such as you typing on your keyboard) tend to make their way up this structure and cause the display to vibrate.  Its not that bad on this monitor (its a bit sturdier than the first LED I bought) but its also hard to understand why something better can't be included.

The other downside of this monitor is that its pricey - it was about 40% more for the same size as the other brand I had purchased.  But the improvement in colors made it a no brainer for me - I can look at and enjoy this monitor, instead of sitting for hours on end regretting my purchase with strained eyes.
2313995
WARNING: If your monitor gets stuck in a mode where video will no longer come across the mDP cable (the default cable included in this box), you'll need to pull the power cord, and plug it back in until the mDP video feed is recognized again. Otherwise, an HDMI cable will work, which is limited to 30 Hz at 4k resolution.

I compared the Dell 27" 4k P2715Q monitor to Samsung's 28" 4k offering, the U28D590D. I found the image quality of the Dell to be superior, particularly the viewing angles as the Dell is an IPS panel. Additionally, the Dell monitor had less ghosting in my tests (http://www.testufo.com/#test=ghosting) than the Samsung monitor, despite the fact that the Samsung monitor advertises a higher refresh rate.

However, the Dell monitor has far more bugs. The one I described above with the mini display port cable not working properly. Also, I bought a second P2715Q and that one appears to have another bug that prevents it from working at 4K resolution, so I am returning that one and awaiting a replacement. Also, sometimes when the computer comes out of sleep, the monitor's resolution is capped at 2560 x 1440, and the monitor needs to be turned off and then on again to regain its ability to support the 3840 x 2160 resolution. I'm crossing my fingers that future driver updates will fix these issues.
3867495
Samsung is not on my Christmas list!

RMA support and repair of existing Monitors is 1/2 star and attempts to escalate were denied.

Overall support is poor at best. I decided to give ASUS VE248H - 24" a chance making Sansung's
lack of support a non issue.
1191154
This monitor replaced a 7 year old Samsung monitor that gave up the ghost.  It is more compact due to smaller bezels.  The stand is drop dead simple to put together.  The stand offers ability to raise and lower the monitor by simply pushing up and down.  The main stack of the stand rotates on the base making turning the monitor side to side very simply.  And the tilt function is pretty generous.  The display itself is fine.  I did have to adjust some of the settings to turn down the brightness and contrast to suit me.  There in lies the reduction of one star.  The documentation is next to non-existent.  While you can go online to see an expanded user manual...that is cumbersome  when you are trying to fine tune the monitor it appears on.
4649170
After a lot of research I concluded that this monitor was the best available for 1440p/144hz gaming. The colors do look good. Sadly there was a major issue that I didn't read about before buying that made it unusable for me: pixel inversion. Whenever there is motion there will be a grid pattern or line pattern that distorts moving images. I've attached an image showing what that looks like (though it isn't my image, this monitor's issues look just like it).

After extensive reading it seems it is a common design flaw with the current high refresh rate TN panel monitors. Supposedly IPS panels don't suffer from this issue. Also the anti-glare coating is a bit too thick on this monitor making everything look shimmery as if its covered in liquid which is a bit hard on the eyes. I'll be returning this monitor and giving an IPS panel a try.
2733488
4 dead pixels out of the box, 1 in the center near the bottom, pretty annoying. not particularly impressive being samsung.

for my sis, so we'll see how the monitor performs and if more dead pixels, or lines for that matter pop up.

update 1: so far its going strong with no viable issues, sis is mostly used to the screen curve and the eyesaver option is easy on the eyes.

updating.....
1776134
I own the Samsung 226BW monitor and just after the 3 years point and the end of the warranty it began flickering when I turned it on in the morning. At first just a few flickers but now it goes on for at least 15 minutes before I can use it again. I understand this is a capacitor issue but I don't have the skill to fix it so I will be shopping for another monitor. The only reason I'm giving 2 stars instead of 1 is that I have liked the monitor otherwise (contrast, color, sharpness, etc.) but this is just not acceptable performance over the long term. This is not the type of product that you expect to be a disposible item after just 3 years. Samsung seems to disagree given that this appears to be a known issue.
894423
I previously had an ASUS 24" 3D monitor that was an excellent monitor for its day.

Time marches on; technology doesn't stand still. This is a cutting edge monitor. It has "G-Sync". That feature ONLY works with an NVIDIA graphics card. Warning: You must re-install or upgrade your graphics drivers in order for the G-Sync feature on the Monitor to be recognized by the graphics card. No upgrade or re-install of the driver? No G-Sync. It will tell you that G-Sync is "enabled", but the screen will TEAR so badly you will think you made a mistake buying this.

I've seen these kinds of driver recognition defects since I built my very first computer. I think that was 1996. Anyway, it's been a long time for me dealing with driver recognition defects. The feature works, but you need to get the graphics driver to recognize that the hardware supports it.

After going through my usual routine of downloading and reinstalling the graphics driver, BINGO the G-Sync works!
2176074
I like the monitor and I bought it at a good price. The screen is ideal for multitasking. If I have to point out a couple of defects, I would mention the following: 1) The monitor is very heavy. I have a Samsung tv of similar size that has half of the weight of this monitor. 2) The support of the monitor can be improved. In particular it allows a rotational movement every time you hit the table; this means every time you move, the screen moves ... not the best.
1887483
This is my third Dell UltraSharp LCD monitor. I also have a 27-inch (U2715H) and a 24--inch (U2417HJ). I was excited to add the 25-inch (U2515Hx) to my setup, because it has QHD resolution, aka 2K, aka 2560 x 1440 pixel resolution. Unfortunately, the power button has a mind of its own and Dell's support has been very poor.

The display quality is good on the U2515Hx, which as far as I can tell, is identical to the U2515H, except it comes with an HDMI cable as opposed to the DisplayPort cable. There are several available inputs and the USB 3.0 hub is convenient if you don't have enough ports on your computer, like on a laptop. I'm daisy-chaining the U2515Hx with my U2715H over DisplayPort so I have a dual monitor setup using only one DisplayPort cable coming out of my computer. It works well and it's nice having both monitors now support 2K resolution. I also have both monitors on Ergotron arms, but the Dell stands are good too.

There is a major problem with the U2515Hx, however. The U2515Hx's power button doesn't always respond. These recent UltraSharp monitors use touch controls, which I am NOT a fan of, but I'm used to them now and I know how they work based on my experience with my other recent UltraSharps. From the very beginning when I plugged the U2515Hx in, the power button wasn't responsive. I checked the connection to the monitor and to my surge protector and it still wouldn't turn on. After swiping and touching the touch controls for about 20 seconds, it finally turned on. When I went to turn it off, it wouldn't until I messed with it again for another 30 seconds or so. I leave it on now and just let it go to sleep so I don't have to mess with the power button, but as I write this, touching the power button won't turn it off. I did Google the issue and apparently there have been reports of the U2515H having these issues, so I would probably stay away from this particular UltraSharp. On top of that, Dell support has been lousy with me in regards to this issue.
1731214
When the Tab 2 7.0 came out it looked wonderful. Feature packed with Android 4, cameras, SD card slot (important but missing on many tablets), GPS, Google Maps, etc. and the tablet itself has lived up to its promise but Samsung unfortunately has not. I have become well acquanted with their customer service and the people are great but seem to have spotty training. It is like the "little girl with the curl".

When it became evident that their Bluetooth instance had trouble pairing with a number of common devices (on access would give constant pairing requests), at first they denied the problem & said it was the adapter, then they were working on it. Finally two months after it was reported, ICS 4.0.4 came out and it was fixed.

Except no-one told the service desk just as no-one told them that Allshare had been moved from a seperate app to part of settings. This is bad because from day one HDMI support had been promised except it needed an unobtainable adapter. Then it was said one of their adapters would work except it doesn't. Samsung's latest move is to redact the reference to HDMI from their specifications and user guide (is in revs up to 3, not in rev 7. Page 22). Lawyers have a word for this.

So if it does what you need out of the box or with an available adapter then you are fine but if something you expected to work (like the Sat-Nav seems to need WiFi/3G access to calculate driving directions but the GPS itself seems powerful) is "different" or is in the specs but does not seem to be there (like being able to connect to an external display), good luck.

In any case, be kind to the service desk people, they are trying to do the right thing.
3260234
less than a year after buying this monitor from tiger direct brand new not a refurb or recertified the picture disappeared replaced by horizontal bars. i will make it a point to tell people not to buy samsung products unless they are willing to to risk their hard earned dollars on crappy quality.
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Summary
A good monitor for the money, especially if you need a 15 pin D-Sub (VGA) input. I don't plan to return mine, but there may be better ones out there for similar cost. If I were buying today, I'd also have a close look at the Asus 24 inch models.

This is my first LED monitor, I'm coming from a 19 inch (17.1 viewable) CRT. I got the 2443BWX on sale Best Buy for $300.

Obviously, twenty four inches is a nice improvement. My aging GeForce 5500 128MB AGP card manages - but just barely - to drive the 2443BWX at its 1920x1200 native resolution at 60 Hz.  I can get the native resolution only with the analog input.

Text is razor sharp. Video looks good. No ghosting or motion blur. Color is good, but before the auto adjust feature (which may work only with VGA) reds were over saturated. Blacks are dark, but not as sharply defined as with my old CRT.

Since my last monitor was a CRT, I am not accustomed to the limited viewing angle. It took a while to find the position that worked best for me, which was to place the top of the monitor just below eye level, and tilt the monitor back slightly.

Pros

Big screen for the money. Three year parts and labor warranty. No ghosting. No motion blur. Very nice picture quality for web browsing, video, and newsgroup browsing.

Works with Linux - in Kubuntu 8.04 with the Nvidia closed source driver (version 169.12) I have it set as a SyncMaster 240T.

The auto adjust feature worked well for me, which was a very good thing considering the horrible On Screen Display controls.

Cons

At first, I thought I had zero bad pixels out of the box. While none are completely dead or stuck, there is a cluster at the left hand edge of the screen that shows red when they should be black.

Unlike the 2443BW, the 2443BWX has no height adjustment capability and no USB ports.

The full user manual is on CD only, no paper edition is in the box.

OSD control buttons are truly horrible. This is easily the worst feature of the monitor. I've had the monitor for a week now, and I still haven't managed to use all the adjustments. Once you manage to get in the desired setting, it is a crap shoot as to whether you'll adjust the setting in the correct direction, inadvertently leave the OSD screen, or jump to the next setting.

As with all TN LCDs, optimum viewing angle is limited. With a screen this size, the problem is magnified. If you aren't positioned perfectly in relation to the 2443BWX, you'll see either the TN characteristic darkness at the top, bottom or side of the screen.

Depending on your needs, the lack of HDMI, no height adjustable stand, no USB ports, and no speakers may or not be problematic to you.
2200805
Samsung LCD's have the best picture. However, many fail after a few months of use. It stems from bad components in the power supply. At turn on there are repeated clicking sounds which increase to many minutes. A Google search will bring up many web sites that describe this problem. Some consumer group WEB sites carry long lists of unhappy consumers as well. Beware
397118
My model-  24inch, 1080p tn 144hz 1ms gsync.  The monitor is tough, I dropped it twice unboxing it, and luckily, no harm came to the monitor. Gysnc works great, I have seen no screen tears whatsoever in my games, and 144hz+ 1 ms response time is a very smooth experience. But you have to manually enable g-sync and change the refresh rate from 60 to 144 in the nivida control panel otherwise the monitor runs without g-sync and 60 Hz. Two stars were removed because the picture quality is just not great, the color accuracy is just a bit bad- nothing terrible, but If you own a nice tv or have used an ips monitor then you will notice. Watching shows on Amazon prime video is actually a really bad experience because of this. The blue on Facebook is not quite the right blue it is on my phone and on my laptop's ips screen. Most games look good, but there are a few that just look straight bad. For example, Rise of the Tomb Raider has sort of a grainy appearance on this monitor while it is much less blurry on my tv, and in youtube videos. Same with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice and Batman Arkham knight. Thankfully, this isn't true for most games, most games look good on this monitor.  TLDR: Gysnc+144hz+1ms response time make this great for gaming, There is no screen tearing at all, but the picture quality is not great.
1022186
I had hoped to really love this monitor, but it doesn't quite land in the 5 star "perfect" range for me.  It is quite nice, but not without a couple of areas where I hope the manufacturer makes some improvements.

First up, trying to find the proper driver to make sure that you can enable the promised FreeSync mode wasn't as easy as it should have been.  Perhaps because I got the monitor before it was officially released, but I would like to have thought that the manufacturer would have had things on their website before shipping the device out to anyone.  Information on the interwebs indicated that in order to get the most from this monitor customers would likely need to find beta drivers, though I didn't find those drivers as easily as others might have.  What this all tells me and should tell potential customers is that customers may find themselves having to search the web a bit to find information that should be on the manufacturer's website or included in the box on documentation that one might expect to find there.  Granted, again, the manufacturer may change things over time, but the box arrived with little or no documentation within, though it did include a monitor that felt, well, a little "beefy".  In my case, it replaced at 22" monitor, so it wasn't a huge difference in screen size and yet it does occupy more desk space than the monitor it replaced.

This G2460PF monitor offers plenty of ports for connections of just about any type you might want to use.  One item of note though is that if you intend to take advantage of the FreeSync feature you'll need to connect (at least at the time I was last researching it) via Display Port.

I have to note that I found this monitor very, very, very bright when it comes to the whites and bright colors compared to the Acer monitor that I replaced.  I was able to adjust the brightness for the display driver and that brought things back to a more normal range but before that it almost felt like I was getting lazer eye surgery just from trying to read the screen.  Once the colors and brightness were adjusted to my taste (through the Radeon display driver I use), I was much happier.

24 inches of display is a pretty nice range to be in.  It offers a fair amount of real estate to move windows around within and that can quickly spoil you.

For me, this device sits with 4 solid stars.  It is nice, and I'd certainly consider purchasing another or possibly a batch of monitors just like it for my work place if possible.  With some more obvious documentation and device support (such as providing *all* drivers, and including documentation within the driver files that can be downloaded, in an easy to find location on the the device support page) this device might sneak its way up into 5 star territory for me.