Samsung S24C770T review

The Samsung S24C770T is a 34in touchscreen monitor with a gorgeous edge-to-edge glass display that makes swiping from the sides a breeze, and a unique sliding stand that provides up to 55 degrees of screen tilt.

The S24C770T’s build quality is superb, but the monitor has few connection ports, with just two HDMI inputs, a headphone jack and a USB port that’s used to connect the S24C770T’s touchscreen to your computer.

The S24C770T’s 24in MVA touchpanel is very responsive and uses an anti-finger film to increase its speed and sensitivity. We certainly didn’t have a problem using it to navigate our desktop, and we could open and move individual files with good level of precision and accuracy.

The S24C770T’s viewing angles were also very impressive, and we could see onscreen images clearly with hardly any noticeable shift in contrast.

The S24C770T’s main weakness is its colour accuracy. Our colour calibrator showed it was only displaying 87.9 per cent of the sRGB colour gamut at its default settings. The monitor was short in both its red and green colour coverage, but blues and purples were very strong, giving images a slightly cooler appearance compared to our reference monitor.

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.