August 22, 2006 12:17 PM PDT
Samsung courts amateur shutterbugs, serious gamers
Attention amateur photographers and serious gamers. Samsung wants you to buy its new 19-inch LCD monitor that displays close to 100 percent of the NTSC color range. That, Samsung wants you to know, is waaaay better than typical LCD monitors that display a mere 82 percent.
Credit: Samsung
The SyncMaster 931C features a 2000:1 dynamic contrast ratio, 1280-by-1024-pixel resolution, a 2-millisecond response time and a pretty reasonable price tag of $299.
If you plan on venturing to Monza, Italy, for the 2006 World Cyber Games this October, you'll probably get a chance to preview one of these before buying since the 931C has been dubbed the games' "official monitor."
Erica Ogg is a CNET News reporter who covers Apple, HP, Dell, and other PC makers, as well as the consumer electronics industry. She's also one of the hosts of CNET News' Daily Podcast. In her non-work life, she's a history geek, a loyal Dodgers fan, and a mac-and-cheese connoisseur. E-mail Erica. 
