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| Samsung 205BW Wide Format Analog/Digital LCD Monitor | 
 enlarge | Brand: Samsung
Category: CE
List Price: $372.00
Buy Refurbished: $189.00
You Save: $183.00 (49%)
Used (1) Refurbished (2) from $189.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 16948
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Display Size: 20.1
Dimensions (in): 0 x 20 x 0
Warranty: 3 years warranty
MPN: 205BW
Model: 205BW
UPC: 729507709000
ASIN: B000GSM4N2
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 Great Service, shipped quickly June 12, 2008
I recieved this item at a great price and in good time. I recommend this vendor to everyone!
 Portrait mode usable with factory stand June 5, 2008
The factory stand does not rotate for portrait mode.
I needed to use this monitor in portrait mode so I modified the monitor. Remove the stand from the monitor. Notice the 2 square holes for the attachment tabs. Make 2 more holes, 90 degrees to the others, so the monitor stand can be rotated. There isn't anything behind that plastic, I used a slow drill to make the holes. Reattach stand and enjoy your new portrait monitor.
XP pro recognized portrait mode with out a monitor driver. Windows home Server (aka server 2k3) needed the monitor driver but functions well in portrait mode.
Overall a good monitor at a refurbished price for me.
 Excellent monitor, rubbish stand May 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have this monitor for a year and I have to support it with a piece of wood. The stand is worse that a plastic toy. Sometimes I wonder, do they care for their product or they just market it and if people buy it, good, if not they move to the next.
For this reason I will never buy another Samsung product.
Free stand replacement from samsung for this monitor! April 18, 2008
I bought this monitor from local store in my city about an year and a half back.
This is a very sharp and bright display with very good color rendition and I bought it primarily for photoshop work. So, all in all, a very competent display unit.
I had no complains until the monitor started to sag and tilt forward. the problem
seems to be defective monitor stand that couldn't take the weight of the display. I didn't save the purchase receipt and was thinking I would out of luck (The monitor had almost become unusable and I had to stack multiple books and keep the monitor on it just to see the screen!).
After checking around to see if I got a defective piece or if it is a generic issue with this monitor, I noticed multiple users have reported this same issue.
This monitor has 3 years warranty and the production of this monitor was in the last two year, so every unit out there is in warranty, so I went to the samsung USA website and filled in a service request monitor replacement.
I was quite surprised to get a call from local UPS store that samsung had sent a replacement monitor in 4 days!!. Now that is some service. Anyways, the point is, if you have this monitor and have the stand problem, you can get it replaced without any hassle.
4 star because the display is excellent but having to replace stand.
Enjoy your stay in repair/refurbishment hell! February 14, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is a pretty decent monitor, until it develops a fault and you're sucked into the black hole that is Samsung's repair/refurbishment hell.
Samsung have a generous three year warranty, during which time your faulty monitor will be replaced free of charge. Unfortunately, your replacement model will be a refurbished model rather than a brand new model and thus prone to even more problems.
I bought a brand new 205BW -- the CBQ hardware revision -- back in September 2006. It worked a treat, although the contrast ratio wasn't the best in the world, I had a few dead pixels and there was some minor backlight bleed, but otherwise it was fine.
About three months down the line it suffered from total backlight failure. I'd moved outside my vendor's warranty for automatic replacement/refunding, so I had to brave Samsung's replacement program. I received my replacement unit in January 2007. Rather than send me the CBQ revision, they sent me an older CBH revision. The CBH models have a 6-bit display panel (as opposed to the 8-bit panels of later models), which means they don't show the full range of colors and thus things like smooth gradients show up as blocks/bands instead. As someone who does a fair bit of graphic design and relies on accurate color displays, this isn't really acceptable. On top of that, the backlight bleed seemed to be worse.
For a variety of reasons, I put off replacing this model until January 2008 (my warranty's still good through to September 2009). This time, I requested a CBQ hardware revision. In February 2008 the replacement arrived. No dead pixels, improved (but still not great) backlight bleed, but I noticed I still had color banding on gradients. Turns out I was sent a CBH model that was refurbished and overstickered with a new model number that suggested it was a CBQ model.
Less than 12 hours into having the new monitor up and running, there was a "pop" and the screen went blank for about 10 seconds. When the display came back on, it no longer defaulted to its native resolution of 1680x1050, but to 1024x768 instead. I tried changing back to 1680x1050, but the screen would either appear corrupted or blank, then switch back to the lower resolution. I tried this a few times, but to no avail. After a short while, it would no longer display the corrupt or blank screens, but would instead show a 1680x1050 sized desktop within a 1024x768 display window.
I tried reinstalling my monitor and video card drivers, but to no avail. I swapped out my eVGA 7950GT card for a spare eVGA 7600GT -- same thing. Windows XP or Vista, it makes no difference. Now my nVIDIA control panel reports that the highest native resolution it can detect for my monitor is 1024x768. I can actually display 1280x1024, but anything higher than that just gives the oversized dekstop within the native resolution. My 1680x1050 resolution is no longer automatically detected as being available.
So, looks like I'm going to have to arrange for a THIRD replacement. Who knows, with any luck I may actually end up with a fully working product that resembles the monitor I originally ordered some 18 months ago. I really wish I'd shelled out that extra 50 bucks for a Dell now.
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