Looking for a new samsung lcd for your computer?
beside checking which place price is the cheapest around. DO look at the back of the panel to see if its really make by samsung themselves.

"its by samsung surely its made by them?"

WRONG.Thats the wrong idea. IN the case of Samsung 22inch 226Bw, there are 3 grades of panel namely, "S" , "A" , "C". In this case i happened to get a "C" which happen to be the worst grade.

S" is the highest quality and the panel is made by Samsung themselves, this is the panel that they sent out to reviewers. "A" is made by AU and is of slightly lower quality, but it can be calibrated to almost match the "S" panel. The "C" model is the worst of the batch and is made by the Chei Mei corporation. This panel has quite pronounced backlight bleeding issues as well as a very bad color profile by default.

TO prevent other ppl out there from getting a "C" or "A" panel theres several check to check the panel info.

1st way of seeing
remove the backcover of the screen which hide the wires. Look at the silver sticker behind




Look at the yellow circle which will show wat panel it is .. in this case it's a "S"panel top grade.Sadly mine is a "C" panel.However even if it write "S' do proceed to step 2 as some of the time it might not be panel "S" as written.

2nd step


This brings us to the second way of divining which panel is inside your 226BW. There is a secret service menu hidden away from the prying eyes of consumers. This service menu will contain the panel type most of the time. To access said panel, simply lower both the brightness and the contrast to 0 using the regular user control panel. Exit the menu, and then bring it back up again. After you have done this hold the source button down for 5 seconds. This will bring up the service menu. The panel type should be located down at the bottom underneath the Scaler-MCU entry. But Wait! It's missing! Yes, on my monitor the panel type was missing from the service menu. As it turns out this is becoming a more common occurrence in the newer revisions of this monitor. If the panel type had been there it would have started with "AU" for an "A" panel, it would probably have contained "220M1" for an "S" panel, and started with "CMO" or "CPT" for a "C" panel. Some of the other sites have a little more information regarding which model numbers belong to which panel.

The last step is more complicated. As it require the removal of the components behind the lcd. Unscrew the screws and follow by taking of the metal shield, right behidn theres two sticker




ways to read the model origin`
1)look up the samsung website with ur model number
2)seek help from forum` eg korea made are usually samsung created lcd.
That come to the end of my tip! Happy picking~~rmb to pick a "s"panel.!