Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #25289 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Samsung
• Model: LS19TWHSUV/EN
• Released on: 2008-04-29
• Dimensions: 10.14 pounds
• Display size: 19

Manufacturer's Description
Inspired by the craftsmanship of Venetian glassblowers, the T190 is the embodiment of Samsung's design philosophy - natural beauty that defies standardisation. Unlike other monitors on the market today, Samsung are just as concerned about how a monitor performs as well as it looks. The unique crystal-like frame is both transparent and opaque, giving the monitor a handcrafted feel. The smooth clean lines and variety of colors will make this monitor the centerpiece of any room in your home - no matter how sophisticated it may be. The T190 from Samsung redefines the meaning of slim. This elegantly designed, ultra-thin monitor comes fully equipped with the latest in LCD technology - all packaged within a sleek, sophisticated frame. The reduced bezel width produces a slimmer profile so that every inch of your workspace is maximised.

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Customer Reviews

Great picture, elegant design
I bought one of the first DVI LCD monitors from Samsung some years ago and it has given me faultless service but it was time to upgrade and get a bigger one. I'm not keen on mega screen resolutions so this 19 incher at 1440 x 900 seemed about right for my taste. Straight away i was struck with the looks, such a beautiful monitor in it's design with a gorgeous clear perspex bezel with a red tint within the black. The curved back and base also complement it, really sexy. The picture in DVI is crisp and sharp with very good contrast and a bright vibrant picture. I can't really fault it for picture and looks.

For me the negatives would be that it does sit a little low on the desk which might be fine for occasional use but for me it gets 8 hours plus per day of work use so looking downward is literally a pain in the neck. The monitor offers no height or tilt adjustment but i suppose a monitor stand makes this a minor and easily corrected criticism. The touch sensitive power switch had me thinking the monitor was DOA though until my wife simply touched the power symbol on the front!

If you don't want to pay the earth and want a nicely designed 19" widescreen monitor with excellent picture then look no further.

Samsung T190 - superb, and there IS tilt adjustment on the stand!
I bought this monitor from Amazon last month - it arrived the very next day (a Saturday) with Express Delivery at £7.65 which I thought was very reasonably-priced (and at Amazon, the monitor was the lowest price I could find it at, too - £112.92 in June 2009, excluding the Express Delivery charge, which is optional anyway).

The monitor is excellent - a great performer and it looks absolutely beautiful from all angles as well! I've got it connected via the DVI cable (which it comes with, along with a VGA cable, UK and European power cables, cable clip, a few bits of paperwork, CDROM and even a cleaning cloth). The so-called "simple" stand (small and elegant) is easy to assemble. It's completely plug-and-play with Windows Vista - obviously the monitor's native resolution of 1440 x 900 needs to be set for best performance - it's bright, crisp, even, stable and really sharp with excellent colours, no dead pixels. Contrast (20000:1) is excellent and response at 2ms is wonderfully smooth - easily the best LCD monitor I've used.

This model (and any others of the T range without a suffix after their size-related number) are primarily monitors so don't have built-in speakers - some of the larger models also come in versions with an HD suffix (e.g. T220HD) and those can operate as stand-alone TVs too as they have Freeview tuners and speakers built in - but have a lower contrast ratio of 10000:1 and the ones above 22 inch seem to be 5 ms response versions rather than 2 ms. However, their styling is exactly the same as the non-TV models so they look just as nice.

Back to the T190. The viewing angle of the LCD panel is very wide, both vertically and horizontally (notably wide in the vertical, actually) and it's a nice, compact unit. The high-gloss styling is lovely, with a translucent black finish which actually shows a deep red translucence near the edges and there's a clear, colourless perspex rim to the unit (narrower at the sides, more pronounced top and bottom) which is prismatic and works very well aesthetically. The power "button" on the front is in fact a tiny, printed touch-sensitive on/off symbol (in conductive silver paint) which works excellently (and silently) - when on, an LED arc glows inside the rosy area (it blinks slowly in sleep mode) - subtle and classy. The rest of the control buttons are normal click-type ones hidden on the right hand side of the housing behind the clear rim, and are a bit tricky to use as you need to memorize their order, since typically you're not going to be able to read the labels on them whilst looking at the screen! However, they do activate a clear on-screen menu, so you can muddle your way through.

The stand is an elegant, slender-necked oval affair which looks very nice and matches the appearance of the screen well. It's not terrifically tall, which could be a problem for some as it's not height-adjustable, and its slenderness can make the screen wobble a bit if your desk is a bit flexible and you are pounding the keyboard. There's no swivel, but the monitor is easy to lift and turn if required.

I had thought, from reading various reviews, that there was no tilt adjustment on the simple stand. Before I assembled it, I thought the metal prongs in the section that the monitor attached to looked promising, but when I tried to move them they seemed fixed, and very careful attempts to tilt the monitor after assembly appeared to confirm it. There was no mention of stand adjustment that I could see in the HTML manual on the CDROM, and I even rang Samsung UK who confirmed there wasn't any adjustment. However, after a week I got around to reading the pdf version of the manual off the CD, which states that it can be tilted from -1 degree (i.e. very slightly downwards) to 21 degrees upwards. So, I grasped the neck of the stand firmly to stabilize it, and pressed firmly backwards at the top edge - it worked - it DOES have tilt! It's now at an ideal angle for me and what seemed a strange omission is no longer a problem at all.

I wholeheartedly recommend this little widescreen monitor - hopefully its larger siblings will be just as good!

Exactly as advertised
This item was chosen by my son as his Christmas gift from me. It is exactly as described, easy to set up and looks very good indeed. In addition to this, the delivery was excellent with goods arriving way before expected - even taking in to account the very busy time of year.