For up close viewing from a desk, "text" had the most comfortable brightness and warm colour temperature (~6500K).

LCD Screen Evaluation Notes

Test parameters: Mode - Internet, resolution 1920x1280 32 bit, 60Hz, 6500K, DVI connection.

For the evaluation of the Samsung Syncmaster 275T's display quality, PCSTATS uses a standard Monitor Test application which displays several test patterns, solid colours, and different grey scale patterns for subjectively analyzing visual aspects. These include contrast, colour luminance, brightness and Moire. Ghosting is subjectively tested in a gaming environment and with moving test patterns.

Brightness and Contrast: The Samsung Syncmaster 275T's LCD has a high contrast ratio. White test bars were bright, while allowing good definition between the darker shading strips. There is a slight but noticeable difference between the 1% and 2% bar, and the scale as it moves up from 3%-to-9% - just as it should be. The white test patterns were very bright without bleeding into the black background. The black background remained jet-black, without noticeable light bleed through around the edges of the screen, or adjacent to the white test patterns.

Colour Vibrancy: The white screen was nice and bright, but there we noticed a very slight shading at each of the four corners, indicating perhaps that the backlight was not evenly filling in the corners. The Red and Green primary colour test screens were vibrant and uniform, save for the very slight darkening at each corner. The blue screen appeared a little washed out compared to the red and green, but not overly so. Colour saturation on the whole was good, and there were no visible dull or broken pixels.

Colour Shading: In this test there's a bit of banding due to LCD monitors being limited to displaying 16.7 million colours. Otherwise the 275T performed as expected.

Non-native Resolution: The native resolution of the Syncmaster 275T is 1920x1200. We tested several non-native resolutions and found the integrated image dithering (aka image scaling) more than capable. Text remained legible and undistorted, edges were smooth and not blurred.