Product Review
Purchased the Samsung 5500 to make use of as a monitor so that could be the slant of this review. It is an impressive upgrade coming from a Hanns-G 28" that had horrific backlight bleed troubles of a couple inches in on each and every side. Laugh. The design is fairly attractive as others have said, good and thin edge lit LED and the I don't mind the glossy surfaces compared towards the matte of the Hanns-G. I love the super whites and dark blacks that it produces at its default brightness levels. I play a lot of arcade emulation and the black pillarboxes on the sides of the 4:three and three:four images appear sufficiently dark with barely a hint of corner blooming in a totally dark room. Concerning connections towards the laptop or computer; when I tried to hook it as much as my Radeon 6870 via DVI-HDMI the initial picture was fairly 'ragged' for lack of a better word. Virtually like you'd see if did not have your overscan settings appropriate within the ATI CCC settings. You also need to toggle picture size to 'Best Fit' from 16:9. So I went for some days having a DVI-VGA connection, that produced a much greater picture but was not a digital to digital answer. After troubleshooting w/ Samsung and lurking on AMD forums I identified that the default 'picture mode' for HDMI is just not optimal for (Read More...)
Friday, September 16, 2011
Samsung UN32D5500 32-Inch 1080p LED HDTV (Black)
