Alright so people ask me all the timewhat monitor do I use at home, and this is it right here.
This is the Samsung T260HD, I'll tell you why I use it
in a second. Stay tuned. We are going to be very passionate
because I love this thing. The T260HD is kind of like the T260
except that's just a monitor.
It's a 25.5 Inch LCD display. Now when
you add the HD to the end of that T260, you get this, and what this brings
to the table is a TV tuner built in. You pretty much get
all the functionality of a monitor as well as the TV so not only
will it be double the UXGA, which is 1920 by 1200, but if you want
to plug in a cable box or an HDMI cable from your AV receiver
or from whatever, your computer, you can also play 1080P footage
on here at 1920 by 1080P. So that's really, really cool.
Now on top of that this thing has an ATSC tuner so
you can get an over the air antenna plugged into here
and it will work.
It will give you the free digital
over the air. It's got a QAM tuner which means
you're going to be able to plug in your unencrypted digital cable
right into the back of it. It actually has a coaxial cable input
which I'll show you in a moment, and you'll be able to change
the channels tune, it even comes with a remote,
so you can actually go through all the different channels and you know,
find whatever you want. It also supports Dolby Surround Sound
so if you're getting cable that's bringing in multiple channel
surround sound audio, it's going to do that as well,
and then you can use the S/PDIF.
To send that out to your surround sound
speakers or whatever you want. You can do with that audio as you please,
you can do HDMI, it's really up to you. So a lot of really good features
on here now. I'll take you for a tour around
the monitor in a second but let me get the panel specs
out of the way now.
First of all this is a 3D, 300 Nit panel,
so it's 300 cd/m2, so very very bright. Even in a bright room
it's going to look pretty good. Right now this place, you don't even know
what's happening in this studio, I mean we're lit up. We have lights
pointing at me from every direction and they're very bright
and as you can see it still looks pretty good
and it's actually dimmed down a little bit for the camera refresh rate
to not give you those weird lines.
But, works very nice.
That 300 cd/m2 is very bright. It's got a 5ms response time
which means it's really fast. You're not going to get any type
of ghosting or shadowing. If you're watching football
or you're watching drag racing, anything that's really fast and in HD,
sometimes on the slower refresh rate you'll see it kind of blur as things
go by really quickly.
Here you'll get that true speed.
Now it is a 60 Hertz monitor, so you're going to get
60 frames per second refresh rate, which is going to be really, really fast.
Again you're not going to get any type of blur. When you combine
those two numbers, those two specifications,
that's what actually determines whether you're going to get
that type of ghosting. Now on top of that 10,000:1
dynamic contrast ratio is really, really nice. Another thing
I'll tell you about this that I love is the fact that it looks spectacular.
It's not your regular old TV from Samsung or monitor from Samsung, it is part
of the touch of color series so it does have this really nice,
little red bezel down here which is really, really nice to look at.
It's got 170 degree viewing angle which is more than enough
so if you're watching TV with friends they can pretty much see it
from just about any angle.
I can see it from right
about here. It looks perfect and I'm almost parallel to it
so very very good side viewing angle. Vertically the viewing angle
is also very good but that's less important because
you're usually not watching the TV. Standing up with it on the floor,
or vice versa, it up in the air and you on the ground.
You're usually watching it pretty much straight in front but
168 degrees is still nothing to laugh at. Now as far as the stand goes,
it does tilt and it does swivel. So here you go it's swiveling.
It actually has a rotating base under here, it's kind of like a lazy Susan,
so this actually doesn't move. The whole thing swivels very nicely, and
you can also tilt it however you want.
Now the thing that it doesn't have
is height adjustment, or a VESA mounting so you
can't actually mount it on a wall or mount it on an arm.
That's the only down side to this beautiful, beautiful monitor/TV,
whatever you want to call it, hybrid panel display.
Besides that let's talk a little bit about the connectivity
and show you what's on the back. A lot of really good stuff.
Now one
thing that's really important to note is that, let's say you're using this
as your you know, your PC monitor. You're using it as your television,
but let's say you also have a gaming console,
like an Xbox 360 or a PS3. What's really cool about this thing
is that it has a secondary HDMI. On the side, and if you look right here,
pretty much you open up that right there and that is where your second HDMI is.
That's really convenient if you want to plug in your laptop,
if you want to plug in a Blu-ray player or a PS3 or an Xbox 360 and then
that way you can keep your regular HDMI.
In the back plugged in at all times.
Now showing you what's in the back over here,
let me give you a quick look back here. Now here is the coaxial cable input
that I told you about, this is where you're going
to plug in you ATSC antenna, which is your free
over the air digital, or you're going to plug in
your unencrypted cable, that's the QAM tuner,
the Q-A-M tuner. Now right next to it
you have components, so if you want to plug in components
you can do those right there. You also have above here
two service ports, it's a USB port and an EX-link.
You're never going to use these, these are only for service.
You have a digital, optical out which is really nice.
Let's say you're
bringing audio in through HDMI, but you want to go back out
to surround sound speakers, well you're going to use that S/PDIF
right there, that's an optical out. Right next to that you're going to see
that you have a 2.5Mm audio input. Now that's good when you have
a VGA going in, or a DVI. And that doesn't carry audio.
That's going to let you actually get that audio using
the 2.5Mm audio cable that comes out of the back of your
computer and straight into this.
Right next to that you're going to see
a 15 pin d-sub VGA connector so your classic connector
that you're going to use all the time. You also have right below a DVI-D
and then right next to that an HDMI. Right over here
is where your power goes, and as you can tell, I mean you pretty
much have all the connectivity you would ever want on a modern system.
It's going to do all your HD stuff. It won't do your standard definition
stuff using composite but who uses that anymore?
It's pretty much gone the way of the dinosaur.
So really,
really, really, really nice display. I've been using it now
for 13 or 14 months and I couldn't tell you
anything bad about it. I love the way it works,
I love the way it looks. Fantastic contrast ratio,
very, very vivid colors, very sharp, crisp colors,
very wide gamut.
It's just a really, really nice monitor
and top of that it's also a TV. And it's got a three year warranty
so if anything goes wrong I mean you're literally, you're covered
as far as warranty goes. Most TVs have a one year warranty,
most monitors sometimes have a two year warranty
but usually have a one. This thing has
a three year warranty.
So really, really nice monitor
from Samsung. It's the T260HD, if you have
any questions shoot them to this email and I'll see you guys next time. For more information on
the Samsung T260HD display type S203-2520 into the search engine
of any of these major retailers. For ComputerTV, I'm Albert..
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