Samsung LN-R238WA 23-Inch Widescreen HDTV-Ready Flat-Panel LCD TV
An awesome HDTV: perfect for gaming
I bought this Samsung LNR238W to serve all of my gaming needs.  It met my all my expectations and I give it my highest recommendation.  The following are my experiences while testing for problems.<br /><br />Pixel Response Time/Ghosting: Nonexistent.  I tried 480i signals through component, s-video, and composite and this lcd is just as responsive as a crt.<br /><br />Input lag: Nonexistent.  I heard of a problem that some hdtv owners(50\\"DLP for example) experienced where there is lag or delay between the time they input a command on a game console and the time action appears on screen, due to video scaling or upconversion.  This problem would also manifest itself as unsynchronized video and audio when watching movies.  I was worried about it, but extensive testing showed that this monitor is free of this problem.  I tried Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for N64 (composite), Wave Race: Blue Storm for Nintendo Gamecube (s-video), Ninja Gaiden for Xbox (480i and 480p through components), Need for Speed Underground for Xbox (480i component), and Tekken 5 for PS2(480i component) and they all were responsive and fine, no problems.  Video was perfectly synchronized with the audio, which I ran through my hometheater system.<br /><br />Dead Pixels: My monitor didn't have any.<br /><br />Uniformity: My monitor didn't have this problem.  Colors appear as they should throughout the whole screen.  That is, there aren't any spots where red things show up green, for example.<br /><br />Quality of scaling: Solid image-wise, and no processing lag.  The video of non-native resolution signals that lcd's display are typically lower in quality than that of scaled signals on a crt.  However, this hdtv scales pretty well compared to other lcds, and I am completely satisfied with the image quality while I watch 480i/p video.  There is some noticeable pixelation and sharp edges sometimes on scaled 480i/p video, but that is to be expected - a crt would smooth those things over.<br /><br />Image geometry: perfect.  No bending, bowing, or other distortion you almost always get with crts nowadays.  Straight lines appear straight.<br /><br />I don't have a spare vga cable or an xbox 360 yet, so I haven't tested native resolution signals, but I'm sure they'll be excellent, I've seen xbox 360 running on this monitor at retail kiosks and the image is great - it's just a matter of whether a particular unit of this model is normal or not.<br /><br />As for the one review that mentioned input lag, maybe he reviewed a different tv by mistake, or had a defective unit, or was running his console through a pc tv tuner card through to the monitor or something unusual like that?  I don't know.<br /><br />This hdtv kicks butt.  By the way, this is the monitor that Microsoft chose to use in all their retail kisoks - so if you go to bestbuy, circuitcity or EB the xbox 360 is using this model.  Microsoft has confidence in this tv.<br /> <br />Image geometry: perfect.  No bending, bowing, or other distortion you almost always get with crts nowadays.  Straight lines appear straight. <br /> <br />I don't have a spare vga cable or an xbox 360 yet, so I haven't tested native resolution signals, but I'm sure they'll be excellent, I've seen xbox 360 running on this monitor at retail kiosks and the image is great - it's just a matter of whether a particular unit of this model is normal or not.   <br /> <br />As for the one review that mentioned input lag, maybe he reviewed a different tv by mistake, or had a defective unit, or was running his console through a pc tv tuner card through to the monitor or something unusual like that?  I don't know.   <br /> <br />This hdtv kicks butt.  By the way, this is the monitor that Microsoft chose to use in all their retail kisoks - so if you go to bestbuy, circuitcity or EB the xbox 360 is using this model.  Microsoft has confidence in this tv.