🙂 (Just to be clear I want to state this again: This happens only if you turn your display 90° upwards using the pivot function of a third-party stand like the Neo-Flex)įor the standard office use the image quality is very much ok. When you are too close to the screen and a delicate motive is displayed you can even see the brightness difference between you left and right eye. Since this former vertical angle is especially touchy the brightness changes if you move your head just slightly to the left or right. The former vertical angle is not the horizontal. The rotation also swaps the vertical and horizontal angles. Therefore, the colors in the upper area are always different than in the lower area. Since the monitor is then very high, the angle to the upper corner is different than the angle to the lower corner. In the upright position there is almost no working viewing angle anymore. Personally, the limitation does not appear worse than with other TN screens to me.Ä«y the way, these limited viewing angles also explain why I haven’t spotted a monitor with TN panel and pivot function, yet. I read somewhere that the 226bw has very limited viewing angles even compared to other TN displays. Especially the vertical angle has almost no tolerance. Like all screens with TN panels the SyncMaster 226bw is very vulnerable to color distortions when the optimal viewing angle is not used. Better panel types usually cost several hundred Euros more, so I don’t complain about Samsung’s choice of panel type. This is the cheapest kind of TFT panels, but also the one with the worst color range and the narrowest viewing angels. The Samsung SyncMaster 226bw uses a so-called TN panel. Unfortunately, I can’t check this easily anymore because my new stand is already installed. I do not know wether he has another version of the 226bw or if my version was damaged or poorly attached. Please note that one of the readers of the German version of this review pointed out that his specimen can indeed be tilted 5° forward. For another 40 Euros I can now tilt my monitor 5° forward, easily adjust the height and even have a pivot function. This stand can be used with all monitors with a VESA connection. My 226bw is now hold by an Ergotron Neo-Flex. I bought an alternative stand to solve this problem. I even consider the standard-5°-option quite tight, but felt -1° is just not enough. The virtually non-existant option to tilt it downwards is not normal. The missing pivot function and height adjustment are quite normal in this class. It is beyond my imagination why Samsung ships this monitor with such a bad stand. It goes without saying that this is not exactly a very stable solution…Īt least it is possible to rotate the SyncMaster 226bw, but I rarely use this feature. In my case, I ended up placing stuff under the back part of the stand to tilt the whole construct. The small viewing angles of the screen darken the picture. This can become quite problematic: If you are sitting a little lower, for example in your couch watching a movie, you are screwed. I did not measure the angle, but subjectively I would say that it can not even be tilted completely upright (see picture). My specimen of the 226bw is definitely not able to do this. Some test claimed that it can be titled by 5° forward. The downwards-tilt is more than disappointing, though. The stand is so low that this little bit of buffer could come in handy. It is possible to tilt the SyncMaster 226bw upwards by about 20° which should be more than sufficient for most cases. It is not possible to adjust the height or turn the screen upright (which would be called pivot function, I think). 🙂 StandÄespite looking quite nicely, the stand is not really good from a ergonomical point of view. I have heard though, that there is some kind of a religious war going on between defenders of matt and defenders of shiny, so this is probably a matter of taste. The screen surface of the 226bw is matt which makes me personally very happy. Fortunately, it is not so bright that it would be annoying when watching movies or something. Only the silver power button is placed more noticeable – especially because of its bluely glowing status LED.
Except the small labelling they are virtually invisible.
The controls are at the lower border of the casing. The stand is colored in the same simple but shiny black. The frame is shiny-black with a silver streak at the bottom.
#Syncmaster 226bw tn tv
The design of the SyncMaster 226bw remotely resembles those of Samsung TV sets. I have finally got a new monitor! After sending back my Samsung SyncMaster 245b because it was too noisy, I now got a Samsung SyncMaster 226bw.
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