Yet Another Victim Of The Gway XHD3000 Monitor Curse :(

[Sarg]

looks like a nice monitor, and having two side by side would give a nice gaming expierence with the extra realestate I just need more room to work with. Good luck with it & enjoy the gaming with it.

I'm waiting on UPS now to deliver the monitor. They even called me yesterday to tell me and to make sure i'm here to sign for it.

I like that 30" model but ended up with the 24" model and now I love it. At first I was ready to bad mouth it and give it a 1 out of 5 stars. I used their set up disc and now know that I'd have to spend a great deal of money to beat it. It kills my 22" LCD running in tandem with it. Plus at only 1080P and or 1900 by 1200 (might be 1050) my video card doesn't have to run higher. Now I'd give 4.5 starts in General and 5 stars on the price.

http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-2494SW..._ob_pc_title_1

It feels like they made a typo on the price. My Buddie with the higher end HM model went back and bought one for the heck of it! Crap loads folks are running 2 or 3 of these.

[Sarg]

Well here is a kicker for ya, UPS delivered the monitor around 5:45 PM today, so I quickly opened up the box to inspect the monitor and other than the foam inserts being a bit beat up, the monitor looks to be in good shape. Except I have no way of hooking it up, well I could use the DVI cable from the gateway, but the not power cord, the gateway has a power brick and the power cord is not a standard cord. It did not even come with any paper work or driver disc, which is no biggie I can always download the drivers if need be, but I was told that everything would be included before I placed the order.

So I called BH Photo ASAP and explained everything and after talking with them about the issue, I could either wait for them to send me a power cord and DVI cable, or I can go out and buy them at the micro center. And BH Photo would just Credit me $50.00 for my troubles, so I took the $50.00 Credit and I'm sure it will not cost me that much to buy the cords I need.
But it is a bit of an inconvenience that I can deal with for tonight, I just hope that the monitor is okay, as I wanted to hook it up and make it's working.

I tell ya some times I wonder what kind of luck I have.

[slim142]

Dam that sucks. But hey those cables wont cost $50 so you got like $30 back.

Anyways go get those cables, take pics and let us know!

[Sarg]

Tis true and I sure will

Dam that sucks. But hey those cables wont cost $50 so you got like $30 back.

Anyways go get those cables, take pics and let us know!

[Sarg]

Okay it took a while for this old PC to render the video and and then the time it took to upload to you tube. But here it is it's about 9 mins long.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P6ZFe7DUHU

[slim142]

Great video. I thought it was gonna be a quick 20 second one lol

So no OSD? Wow that sucks big time! Is it because the monitor is old or because they really intended it to be that way?

Btw, is it a S-IPS or TN?

[Sarg]

Thank you very much, and ya know in my haste to keep the video under 10 min, that is one thing I forgot to check on and include in to the video. But I will post back on that. As for the OSD, I have been looking on the Samsung site and have found no answer as to why no OSD. But from what I can tell, that is the way it was made even when it was brandy new.

Great video. I thought it was gonna be a quick 20 second one lol

So no OSD? Wow that sucks big time! Is it because the monitor is old or because they really intended it to be that way?

Btw, is it a S-IPS or TN?

[Sarg]

From what I can find on this monitor at this time it is a.

WQXGA TFT LCD panel, other than that I'm unable to find any other info, as it a is discontinued model. And I wonder why but I don't see an answer forthcoming any time soon.

Sarg

[slim142]

Well you tell us how good is the angle view on the screen. If its more than average then its most likely an S-IPS. If just by moving ur head an inch below the screen u see a lot of dark spots and cant read top of the screen, then is TN

However, I doubt they would use a TN in a 30inch. At least I havent seen any.

[Sarg]

As for the viewing angle, I look at the screen from the side and still see everything very clearly, a bit on the dark side but I can read what ever is being displayed as well as see any images, as for looking at it from the bottom, I see no dark spots the top of the screen is a bit darker but I again can see everything clearly.

I will see what I can do with taking a few pictures.

Well you tell us how good is the angle view on the screen. If its more than average then its most likely an S-IPS. If just by moving ur head an inch below the screen u see a lot of dark spots and cant read top of the screen, then is TN

However, I doubt they would use a TN in a 30inch. At least I havent seen any.

[Soulburner]

Great video. I thought it was gonna be a quick 20 second one lol

So no OSD? Wow that sucks big time! Is it because the monitor is old or because they really intended it to be that way?

Btw, is it a S-IPS or TN?

Samsung 305T uses one of their own Samsung PVA panels.

[Sarg]

Ahh okay I did not know that thank you for the info.

Samsung 305T uses one of their own Samsung PVA panels.