Samsung Touch Of Color T220HD 22-inch LCD HDTV Monitor

There seems to be some confusion whether or not the T220HD can be wall mounted. Granted it does not have the VESA holes but SamsungParts has a wall mount adapter WMB1900T 19-22 VESA 100X100 bracket. Why Amazon doesn't show this item as an accessory for the T220/T220HD I don't know. As far as the T220HD goes it has all the bells and whistles you need the only thing i think is missing is a USB hub. This link should get you to the bracket. Wall Mount Bracket 19-22"

This is our second Samsung HDTV monitor and it lives up to the 32" we have. We have it connect to a HD cable box, a HDMI DVD player and an aerial. The picture is as good as you can imagine, excellent color and contrast.

There are a few issues that you might be interested in:

The sound is dreadful, not bad but dreadful. I guess Samsung assumes you are going to use a separate sound system. I put together a sound set up with some old multimedia speakers I have (Klipsch) and an optical to analog audio converter Digital Audio To Analog Audio Converter and use the cable box AC socket to power up the audio system but most people don't want to figure out something like this. Samsung really should make a one piece model with decent forward facing speakers.

Our HDMI cables arrived a few days after the set so we used the component input first. On this set it's clearly softer then the HDMI inputs so if you have HDMI compatible devices, use it.

Our cable system uses HD boxes that don't talk well with the Samsung. Sometimes we get an error message that implores us to use component instead of HDMI but it goes away quickly and the box works anyway. This was a problem with our first Samsung two years ago and it hasn't been dealt with yet. Also the cable box sometimes puts out a signal that causes a slight contrast change at the top and bottom of the picture. It changes with the channel. It never happens with the DVD player or the aerial.

We live in an apartment so the aerial reception is spotty. Our 32" set which is far from the windows gets better reception then this set which is next to a window. Is this due to the tuner in this set? We can't tell yet.

This is an excellent purchase as long as you know the sound problems.

Terrific television for the money. 5+ stars. Only fault is the quality of
the speakers. Great deal for the price though.

Great product. This single monitor is a two in one, television and a computer monitor. This monitor provides great picture quality. I don't have cable TV, so I just bought a cheap attenna from Bestbuy and plug it into the back of the monitor and I get about 12 crystal clear, digital channels. The remote control is easy to switch back and forth between TV and computer input. I would recommend this product to anyone.

I was hoping for better. This was my first HDTV. When watching the olymipics in Hi-definition, the picture was blurry during the fast action sequences. With Regular cable, the picture is very grainy and not that nice. For people looking for watching TV NOT with Hi-definition, stick with a regular aspect TV. I don't like watching tv with short and fat people as happens when you stretch the picture to fill the screen if the transmission is not in 16x9. If you don't stretch it, you will have black bars to the left and right of the picture. It looks nice though when watching a channel in high definition in 16x9 aspect. I recently bought a plasma HDTV and don't have the blurry picture so perhaps it's this TV and not the HD experience overall. As a computer monitor, yhe screen is a bit dark even after adjusting all available picture controls. In fact the tv picture is a bit dark too.

Great looking but on/off button very frustrating as you have to touch it a couple times to get it to turn off.

GREAT Monitor/TV . Easy set up out of the box, functional remote and OK sound. FANTASTIC picture quality at 1080, regular TV, well is regular TV. The price was unbelivable, similar monitors at 720I were priced much higher.

I wanted a good TV/PC MONITOR: good TV sound/picture and simple switch
to a PC monitor that ALSO worked well. This is it!

This TV/MONITOR connected to standard TV/INTERNET cable quickly.
Windows XP immediately accepted the monitor, no questions asked.
When I switched to the TV on the remote, it immediately displayed
TV channels. The on-screen menus are clear and progressive; simple
to use.The built-in TV speakers are OK. Frankly, like most TV speakers,
they should be better. Part of my researched buying decision included
the headphone jack. There is only an optical digital audio out connector.
So I connected the TV speakers to my high quality desktop speakers via
an audio cable from the TV headphone jack to the line-in speakers.
Now I have a great TV picture and surreal audio.

CONS: One thing, Samsung should provide a much better user manual that
FULLY explains the connectors/use. I called their tech support (800-726-7864) and surprise, they were fast and helpful.
Several other reviews are critical of the stand, backlighting, weight, etc. Now that I am using this product, I do not understand any of these criticisms. Especially, since the LCD HD TV only added about $50. to the
total cost of replacing my PC monitor.

First of all, The Pros:

The design and the picture quality of this monitor is EXCELLENT! I purchased this as both a monitor for my computer as well as a Guest Bedroom television and it serves those functions well. The built in tuner is a great addition as well!

Cons:

The speaker as well as the volume of the speakers is very low. If you are looking to get blasted with a HD quality movie, this won't do it. Also, it is not possible to hook up any externel speakers to this monitor. You will have to rely on you computer speakers.

The bottom line is this is a terrific HD monitor for your computer at a fairly affordable price.

Love this monitor/tv. Clear, easy to set up. Only complaint: the CD with the owner's guide is unusable.

This product is the best television I ever bought, and monitor is the same, the clearness of the picture is great. Have a very nice look, and the color red and black it has, is great.

This is my first HDTV and I'm very happy, no dead pixels and no problems with anything. The HDTV Tuner works perfectly and the menu and all the functions it has, are very easy and good looking. Changing between the sources is very simple and easy.

Excellent product, I recommend this product.

I ordered PS3 and I'd been tolerated with my old TV for 2 months, which it literally hurt my eyes. So I decided to get this monitor, and I'm glad I did.

The monitor has 2 HDMI ports, component, DVI, DVI-D, built-in TV tuner and speaker, and a remote control. The speaker is not so great, but decent enough if you're too lazy to hook up the extra speakers. It supports 1680x1050 for PC, and it's 1080p. The picture quality is great for PC with DVI-D and PS3 with a generic HDMI cable. I haven't tried the TV yet. But PS2 with component cable gives kinda crappy picture though, worse than a normal flat-screen TV. I guess it's because the resolution of the monitor is too high.

One warning about the shipping though, I paid for 1-day shipping and UPS managed to f- up my shipment and made it 2-day shipping, which was supposed to be free for me since I am a member of Amazon Prime. Nice going, UPS. True, $3.99 is not a big deal, but you guys definitely ruined my mood for a whole day. FedEx did a lot more professional jobs with this kind of expedited shipping.

In conclusion, I'm happy with this purchase. If you want to buy it, don't hesitate. Just don't pay too much on the shipping, cause UPS might stood you up anyway.

This monitor is excellent, nice definition on component, HDMI, and computer. The TV is just good, not excellent but you need to consider that this is a "Monitor" and the standard TV cable has lower resolution, but the definition still good. Good size, very nice color, and low energy consumption. The menu is huge. you can do whatever you want. And the price/value it superb.

I have a 20-month-old boy who loves to break things, so I have to take all my gaming consoles out fo the living room and into the study, where my PC is. So I thought it would be nice to get a LCD monitor with component input for my old consoles, as well as HDMI for potential new consoles. After lots of research I picked the T220HD, because it also comes with digital tuner. I am very happy with the choice because it is exactly what I thought it would be. it's very versatile and display everything well, and I am especially impressed with the digital tuner which picks up all the network OTA HD broadcast using a cheap indoor HDTV antenna, when my PCI tuner card (Avermedia A180) could pick up 2 or 3 using the same antenna in the same position. It's not perfect, however.

What's to like:
- Component input allows connecting older devices without HDMI.
- 2 HDMI ports
- Input source button cycles through only ports that are plugged in.
- digital TV tuner is excellent.
- Build in speaker/headphone jack/audio out port. Speakers are not great, but having them means you don't need extra adaptors to capture the audio from HDMI/component devices.
- Remote control. OSD navigation is so much easier and more intuitive with it. And this is really useful when turning the unit on/off, making this a true LCD TV.
- Has 16:9 aspect ratio option so that pictures don't have to be stretched to full screen.
- Unit is very light, only 13 lb.
- Picture is bright and clear, no dead pixel for me.
- Screen is matte, not glossy.

What's really annoying to me:
- Unit is light because base is mostly plastic, not very rigid.
- touch sensitive power on/off button. Everything else is tactile and on the side of the monitor, except for power. turning the unit on/off using this button usually requires several presses. Might that be that big of an issue if the unit is not so light and stand so flimsy, I have to grab the whole bottom edge when I try to turn it on this way. Good thing there's the remote.
- My unit has quite a bit of backlight bleed at the center of top and bottom edge. Hard to see when using DVI input, but when viewing HDTV, with the black bars on top and bottom to get the correct 16:9 aspect ratio, the bleeding is obvious.

What are the missing features which I don't care much about:
- the stand is basic, no height adjustment, no portrait mode
- no PIP
- can't be mounted to the wall
- Cannot customize the individual RGB color tone when in DVI mode. Can only select between one of the 3 presets (warm, normal, cool).

Other nitpicks:
- monitor frame has piano finish (glossy), including the inner side which reflects what's on screen. Kind of annoying , and maybe makes backlight bleeding seem worse than it really is.
- most of the connection ports are on the back of the unit facing back. While this makes the ports easier to see than a lot of other models that has the ports on the bottom facing down, it also makes insertion of wires, especially the component video ones, harder becasue you are pushing/applying force perpendicular to the LCD panel. You don't want to put your other hand on the LCD screen, but if you don't, then you really can't get a good push.

I was looking for a TV to watch videos and this was an excellent choice. I'm really blown away be how great VCR's appear. I also bought a Sony uoconverting DVD player. It's all a winner especially for the price.

To previous reviewers who slammed this product just because it didn't have a wallmount option: nowhere does Samsung claim that these TVs are wall-mountable. Just because you didn't pay attention to product details doesn't mean the item is faulty...just that you picked the wrong one for your needs. Those who slammed this TV for its lack of a wall mount make about as much sense as someone trashing a beamer m6 for being bad for carpooling...

anyway, just got my 22" T22HD and it is beautiful, and comes with plenty of nice surprises...
for example,it's incredibly easy to assemble: they attach a special turning handle on the stand's phillips-head screws so you don't a screwdriver to put it together (tiny but nice improvement from the last samsung tv i put together: http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-LNT2354H-23-Inch-HDTV-White/dp/B000N50RUK/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1218910378&sr=8-3)
It comes with a ton cables for use with peripherals and PCs (haven't used these yet) and lastly, has a cool touch-based power "button" (no actual button, just press on the bottom right of the monitor's frame to turn it off and on)!
Once you manage to turn it on, the monitor's contrast adds nice depth to images and espn action clips stay pretty sharp.
Don't know much about the TV's longevity yet, but so far am loving every aspect of this red/black samsung 22" HDTV! :)

The only reason I am slamming this rating is to catch people's attention. It's a great monitor/TV but it DOES NOT MOUNT TO THE WALL! I bought one at my nearby Cosco. Even Cosco assumed it was wall mountable. It was displayed on the TV aisle, not the computer monitor aisle, and they had wall mount bracket arms for sale right next to it. Samsung made a big mistake not making their smaller "Touch of Color" monitors wall mountable. They should not assume that everyone will set it on a desk. I wanted to mount mine to the wall in my master bathroom suite. I still will, just not this one.

Unlike nearly every other LCD flat panel display from Samsung or anybody else, this model has NO OPTION for wall mounting, no standard VESA or nonstandard holes in the rear enclosure at all, and no accessory available to support wall or swing-arm mounting. Pretty dumb design for a top-of-the-line manufacturer like Samsung.

I had to return the first monitor back to store in one day. It was defective out of the box. The screen would continuosly blink and wouldnt show any image. After returning the first one, I got another one same model. The monitor and TV functions are great. It has two HDMI inputs of which one is conveniently located to the side of the monitor along with a head phone jack. The HD picture quality is great although not as sharp as the 22" Vizio that I returned for not having a digital dvi input. Samsung claims that it supports 1080P although there is no mention of it on the box and product documentation that came with it. The only problem that I have with this one is that when being used in computer monitor mode, it takes anywhere from 4-30 seconds to turn back on when my laptop turns off the screen and back on. This gets really annoying if you want to look up something quickly and your monitor takes a random amount of time to turn back on. It is not an issue with my laptop as my laptop screen turn on almost immediately. Hopefull Samsung will release a simple firmware upgrade to fix this issue.

I ordered this LCD monitor for my son to use in his bedroom as a TV. I thought it would be neat to have if he wanted to hook it up to his laptop or a desktop later. The picture is awesome, the clarity of the colors are right up there with any of the other stand alone HD televisions we had looked at. This is truly a great monitor that thinks it is a TV. We also have a Samsung 52 inch DLP, and the picture on this one gives it a run for it's money.

This TV basically blew me away at the store. I was there to buy a 26" vizio or sharp aquos and ended up with a cheaper and much better Samsung T220HD. The picture, while smaller, was darker, clearer and crisper than the others and I felt like the better deal was this tv over the larger ones. I use this in the bedroom so the size was less of a concern but overall a great tv.