Samsung S24C770T review

Strangely, the S24C770T doesn’t have any onboard menu settings to let you adjust the picture manually. The menu buttons only let us change the brightness, source input, volume and the position of the overall display area. Instead, you must download Samsung’s Magic Tune Software to calibrate it. Using Magic Tune’s colour controls, we increased its colour accuracy to a more respectable 93.2 per cent. This is still lower than a typical IPS touchscreen, but it’s very good for an MVA panel.

Our subjective image tests certainly benefitted from the monitor’s improved colour coverage, and reds, greens and blues looked deep and vibrant. Whites were a little on the pink side, but blacks looked deep and inky. We were also pleased to see a black level reading of just 0.13cd/m².

Unfortunately, the S24C770T’s contrast levels were a little too weak to see fine detail in our high contrast test images. Samsung claims the monitor has a static contrast ratio of 3,000:1, but we only measured a contrast ratio of 1,937:1. This would be great for an ordinary display, but the S24C770T’s deep blacks obliterated the dark shadow detail in our test images. The glossy finish didn’t help, either.

The Samsung S24C770T is the most expensive touchscreen we’ve tested and we love its design, but its image quality isn’t as good as that of the cheaper Viewsonic TD2340, making the Viewsonic the better buy.