lcd monitor which makes a great wall mountable lcd screen! (Samsung Syncmaster 223BW)

Member Name: arfannazar

Product:	Samsung Syncmaster 223BW
Date:	02/09/09 (68 review reads)
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Advantages: slender, sleek glossy design, high quality picture, price

Disadvantages: not supplied with wall mount bracket

23" widescreen flatscreen lcd monitor for a great price. It was a lot to ask for a year ago, even today you are looking at spending a fair bit of money to buy an lcd witha quality feel about it like this one. I decided to buy this monitor to hang on my living room wall, I did not want an over powering 50" beast of a tv on my wall, as that looks hideous, I wanted something with flair, understated, compact in dimensions and provided a great high contrast image under day light conditions. This monitor fitted the bill.
at 23" it is not on the small side when it comes to computer monitors, but it was ideal as a wall mount tv screen.

I have a small compact desktop pc which I have hooked up with the screen and it is also discreet, small, compact, and most importantly quiet. as if you are watching a quiet scene in a hd film the last thing you want is a blaring fan whirring away in the background!

I can watch tv on it, play the latest pc game, answer my e-mails, work on my short story and surf the web all at the same time, and all from the comfort of my sofa.

the resolution is perfect for hd movies, link it up with a home cinema sound system and the effect is astounding.

It is not tiring on your eyes and the sleek glossy design frame complimented my home interior.

The monitor was surprisingly easy to convert into a wall mountable lcd.
however the wall mount bracket was not included. you get a standard desktop mount like the one in the pic, although I liked the fact that this was a swivel base, so you could turn it around with ease, unlike some monitors which are on fixed base stands.
the menu screens are easily accessable using the sleek hidden menu buttons on the front underside of the frame.

for added effect I managed to hide the cables around the back of the screen by fitting them into some trunking which I painted the same colour as the wall. so these were perfectly hidden, the screen looks great!

the lcd won't work very well as a wall mount lcd if you have a large room. I have a small living room and this is why I prefered a 23" lcd rather than a huge 50" screen which would be too overpowering, it would also give you a headache if you watched more than an hour of tv on it.

overall a great looking monitor which would not look out of place as a wall mountable hd lcd tv screen if you have a small living / front room.

Summary: great computer lcd which makes for an equally great wall mountable tv

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