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01:24 - Monitors Confuse Brian
http://www.samsungusa.com/cgi-bin/nabc/product/b2c_product_detail.jsp?eUser=&prod_id

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I saw an ad for this Samsung monitor in this month's Road & Track. 24" LCD, 1920x1200, HDTV-ready, with a 3D Virtual Dolby Surround sound system attached.

That's a whole lotta monitor, I thought. Especially considering the ad's slogan: DigitAll envy. A 24-inch digital LCD? Good heavens that must rock. Certainly beats the crap out of the 23-inch Cinema HD Display. What must it cost?

No price in the ad, naturally; it directs me to samsungusa.com, where after digging for a while to get to the page linked above, I found still no prices-- just links to retailers.

But I did find out something interesting: This monitor isn't digitAll at all. The input is analog RGB or CVBS.

Isn't that just a little bit disingenuous?

Ah well; surely it must at least be fairly price-competitive, right? I'd expect that what with all these features it has, with the sound system and the HDTV hookups and the TV tuner and all-- I'd say, oh, what-- about $2000, right? After all, the Cinema HD Display doesn't have those extra funky bits, and it's $3500-- but I have to assume that it's priced higher than the median for the feature set, as Apple products tend to be. Yes?

Well, here's what MonitorOutlet says:

Retail Price: $7,299.00
Our Price w/ Free Shipping: $4,452.00

Um... how's that?

Almost $4500, and that's the reseller's price-- reduced by nearly $3000 from the MSRP? Huh? Who's taking the bath here?

Anyway, there's also this guy-- the 240T monitor, another 24-inch LCD, this one a combo analog/digital one. Okay, cool-- it's not quite as nice-looking as the 241MP, but it does take digital input. Same HDTV 1920x1200 resolution and all, and speakers. And wall-mountable. Neat.

But what they don't tell you, though, and only comes out if you download the PDF, is that the maximum resolution of 1920x1440 is for analog-- the best the digital input can do is 1280x1024.

What does MonitorOutlet quote, price-wise?

Retail Price: $6,749.00
Our Price w/ Free Shipping: $2,997.00

Again, I don't understand where this monstrous discount comes from. But even assuming the latter price is where the supply-and-demand curves meet, is this monitor really worth this kind of scratch?

I'm sure there's something I'm missing.

CapLion: Of course it's analog. Has to be able to hook up to a $500 eMachine, after all.
Me: Though if there's a market made up of people who buy $500 eMachines and $7200 monitors, I'd like to get a peek into their living rooms...
CapLion: Of course there is. They saved so much on their computer, see.