| Reviews : Samsung LN-R238WA 23-Inch Widescreen HDTV-Ready Flat-Panel LCD TV |
Samsung LN-R238WA 23-Inch Widescreen HDTV-Ready Flat-Panel LCD TV Product By Samsung Available From 0 Sellers |
Technical Details
- HD-ready widescreen LCD television with 23-inch PVA screen; 23 x 17.4 x 3.5 inches (W x H x D) without stand
- 1,366 x 768 native pixel resolution; accepts HD signals up to full 1080i; includes HDMI and PC inputs
- Amazing 3,000:1 contrast ratio, high 500 cd/m2 brightness, broad 170-degree viewing angles (H x V)
- Samsung DNIe (Digital Natural Image engine) enhances images; features a 181-channel NTSC tuner
- 3 watts per channel x 2; SRS TruSurround XT simulates dynamic surround sound from any 2 speakers
Product Description
Slim, light and beautiful, Samsung's LCD Flat Panel TVs combine sleek looks and high performance. These HDTV-ready and HDTV sets let you enjoy regular TV and display HDTV images from any High-Definition source. Samsung's Patterned Vertical Alignment (PVA) screens provide high contrast and brightness for lifelike images with realistic colors.Amazon.com Product Description
Isn't it time your home office, dorm, kitchen, or bedroom went high-def? Samsung's 23-inch LN-R238W LCD television lets you enjoy not only regular TV, but full HD images from any high- or enhanced-definition source. Its suite of state-of-the-art connections accommodate a wealth of associated equipment, such as a DTV set-top box, a progressive-scan DVD player, and even your PC. Samsung's Patterned Vertical Alignment (PVA) screen provides high brightness and amazingly rich contrast for lifelike images and realistic colors. A mere 3.5 inches thick without its detachable stand, the TV produces exciting, perfectly flat, images while occupying minimal space in your office, living room, bedroom, or kitchen.
| Samsung's DNIe™ Samsung's revolutionary DNle™ (click for demo) technology offers digital perfection in naturally presented, crystal-clear images that uncover even the most minute detail. |
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| Motion Optimizer Fast-moving images are optimized to produce more natural-looking motion, thus reducing video noise or blurring. |
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| Contrast Enhancer Brightness and contrast levels are enhanced for deeper, richer blacks with greater detail and more natural whites. |
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| Color Optimizer Colors are reproduced with a more lifelike realism, whites are more accurate, and skin tones are given a more natural hue. |
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| Detail Enhancer DNIe analyzes video signal elements to produce sharper detail, clearer image separation, and more natural edge transition. |
Onboard 10-bit processing produces 3.2 billion lifelike colors and aids in video signal processing for your analog sources. And with its lightning-quick 12 ms response time, astronomical 3,000:1 contrast ratio, impressive 500 cd/m2 brightness rating, and onboard 3D Y/C digital comb filter (which separates the color signals to minimize dot crawl and blurred edges), you'll see sharp, focused images regardless of their source.
LCD screens offer a number of benefits over CRT monitors and televisions, including general ease of use, freedom from eye strain (no screen flickering or radiation emissions), quiet operation (no high-pitch "flyback" noise, an issue with CRT TVs), accurate image geometry (no curvature distortion or susceptibility to magnetic interference from, say, speakers), long screen life, space savings, and light weight/easy positioning. They also tend to be more affordable than their flat-panel plasma counterparts, which often (though not always) offer faster response times and higher contrast ratios.
The LN-R238W's DNIe (Samsung Digital Natural Image engine) offers a vision of digital perfection in natural, crystal-clear images that reveal even the most minute detail. The process involves 4 key enhancements: contrast and brightness (for deep, rich blacks and natural whites), motion (which optimizes fast-moving images to produce natural-looking motion, reducing video noise or blurring), color (for lifelike realism, accurate whites, and skin tones with natural hues), and detail (DNIe analyzes video signals to ensure sharp detail, clear image separation, and natural edge transitions).
Samsung's patented My Color Control technology lets you control specific colors without affecting the whole screen. Samsung provides 6-color control selections: white, red, pink, yellow, green, and blue. It's your picture--you decide how it looks. Samsung's PVA screen permits brighter whites than standard TFT LCDs, as well as deeper blacks and every shade in between.
The LN-R238W makes flexibility a top priority, giving you several preset picture and sound modes (and custom settings for each). The TV also permits color temperature adjustment for warm, cool, or neutral tones, along with 4 onscreen languages to choose from (English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese). Choose one of several preset sound modes (standard, music, movie, speech, and custom) for broadcast through the set's built-in speakers (10-watts-per-channel x 2).
Connections include 2 component-video inputs (480i/480p/720p/1080i), a direct-digital HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface), a PC input (15-pin D-Sub with minijack analog audio), 2 composite-video inputs, 1 S-video input, 1 RF input, 5 attendant sets of stereo (left/right) RCA audio inputs, and 1 stereo RCA audio output. The set's Anynet (RS-232C) control option simplifies use with other Samsung audio/video components.
Other features include single-tuner picture-in-picture (view 1 TV channel and 1 input source simultaneously), a sleep timer, V-Chip parental control, closed captioning, and an auto volume leveler to minimize jarring differences in loudness between, say, TV programs and their commercials.
What's in the Box
TV, detachable stand (with screws), a remote control, remote batteries, an RF video cable, a user's manual, an Anynet AV manual, an AC power cord, a cover bottom, an Anynet cable, a cleaning cloth, and warranty information.
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Customer Reviews
By Sox Fan (Philadelphia, USA)
I bought this TV less than 2 years ago and it has worked well until last month when I turned it on and there was no picture. I have tried several repair shops and Samsung-USA's service , and the consensus is that I'm out of luck because they no longer make or stock parts for this TV, including the scan module that I apparently need. It's not a bad little TV, but you should be aware that you might go to turn it on one day and find that it is irreparable junk.
By Gabriel's Buddy (Carrboro, NC USA)
I've owned this for about 8 months now and find it to be working very well as a TV/DVD/Camcorder/PS2 player and also as a computer monitor. The color is very good and the contrast is great. I especially like the large number of inputs so that I can leave the cables attached. I am currently using one component input (Upconverted DVD player), two composite inputs (Camcorder and PS2), and the VGA input for the computer. This TV is a great value and I have no problems recommending it to other folks.
My one year old laptop computer didn't support the native resolution (1360 x whatever) until I updated the intel drivers. Lo and behold, the resolution I needed was there. It also supports other resolutions but not as well. My model is a LN-R238W (no A) and I don't know if that makes a difference.
By Adamnizl
This tv is not what it seems. I saw it at Costco for a low price, did some research on tv's, came here and saw some reviews so I bought it. Upon hooking it up to my 360 and checking all the connections (everything and anything you can think of I did it)I soon found out the picture was grotesque with bleeding color and ultra sharp angles, jagged actually and sometimes this kind of "ghost" color on some things. So I hooked up my Gamecube, same results but more bleeding. Then my dvd player...it looked like live streamed video via a dial up connection. I figured that it must be something wrong with the tv so I brought it back in exchange for a new one today and I it had the same blurry color bleeding fuzzy jaggedness as the last one.
_Bottom line_
Do NOT buy this tv. Do NOT be fooled by other reviews. You WILL regret it like I have.
_Note_
After reading the other review about not believing in other rave reviews and not believing him, I feel so stupid and angry that I wasted my time. Just wait till slim CRT Tvs are mass developed by Samsung. That is what you will want.
By K. E. Gilchrist (Los Angeles, CA USA)
I have been using my Samsung LCD TV for several months now. I am very pleased with the picture, even though I have not yet changed my cable service to HD. I continue to be amazed at how good regular TV images can be. I was watching a show when a commercial came on that depicted either clouds or an explosion at high-speed. I caught it out of the corner of my eye and my reaction was "WOW!" What must HD be like on this set? Eventually, I will find out.
The TV has a nice array of settings to play around with for your viewing pleasure -- but my "but..." from above is the lack of having a way of changing the aspect ratio directly from the remote. As it is, that setting is buried in the menu tree. A real pity, as regular cable has a variety of aspect ratios in use, and I am frequently changing that setting.
All in all, I am still happy with my Samsung. I would definately recommend this manufacturer.
By Amazoner (Boston, MA)
I use this monitor mainly for work, but I do take it on the road for trade shows and show DVD's on it. I also bought an upconverter HDMI fed dvd player, dvd's look very crisp on this screen.
Highly reccomended! It's a TV that happens to be VERY useful as a monitor...I don't do any gaming though so I can't comment there. I can fit two spreadsheets side by side (or any application), but of course i'm always wishing for more space. Maybe the 26" is my next buy? Speakers aren't great, but I didn't but it for the speakers.
Everyone that see's it as my monitor in my office is jelous!
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