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Samsung Syncmaster 172MP LCD Monitor Review
Author: Jakester
Date Posted: September 29th, 2003
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Bottom Line: Samsung gave us another monitor to review, sort of... The Samsung 172MP is a 17" LCD multifunctional display unit with the capability to perform as a monitor, TV (using its optional TV tuner) , or both with its Picture-in-Picture feature. This monitor looked very promising. Did it stand up to our expectations? Find out in our official review....
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Overview
One of the coolest things about the 172MP, besides the fact that
it can connect to a plethora of video sources, is its menu panel. The buttons
on the panel are all metallic "Soft Touch" inputs. Soft Touch is Samsung's
capacitance recognition technology that allows for the softest touch of the
buttons to register your desired selection. How it works is when you touch the
button with your finger, you change the capacitance of the button, which
triggers the selection. I tried touching the buttons with a piece of paper over
my finger and sure enough it did not register my selection. The display menu is
also very well laid out and allows for easy configuration of the 172MP.
I'm willing to bet you've never seen this many inputs on the
back of an LCD monitor before. On the left side you see the Audio Visual (AV)
inputs which are the standard Left and Right Audio, Video, and S-Video inputs.
On the upper panel you see inputs for: DC Power, PC Video (Analog) and Audio
inputs, Component Y, Pb, Pr, and Left Right Audio inputs for HDTV. Samsung did
an excellent job of packing a lot of technology into a very small area. All of
the inputs, as you can see, are imbedding into the back of the monitor case
keeping the monitor at a slim 2.5" inches.
Included on the side of the 172MP is a headphone jack which
could be handy for anyone that likes to use a set of headphones rather than the
built-in monitor speakers.
The stand of the 172MP is 8 inches deep; however, the monitor
screen is placed in the middle of those 8 inches. Because of this, there is around 2
inches of the stand protruding in the front and about 4-5inches in the back.
Basically, the entire monitor unit takes up an extremely small amount of desktop
space. Being a college student and living with a minimal amount of desktop
space, this monitor is very convenient.
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