are all LCDs like this?

a while ago i bought the samsung 226BW, and i was having wierd problems with it. the problem was that whenever there was movement, certain objects on the screen would get like a triple "layer", during the movement.
here is a picture of what i mean
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/ [...] nitor2.jpg

and if its like a light source from say, a globe, then while there is movement you can clearly see the "layers" of colours that make up the glow. something like this

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/ [...] onitor.jpg
on the left is what it should look like, uniform, and on the right is how it actually looks like.

its not ghosting. the ghosting effect looks different and there is no ghosting on my screen.

when i asked this question back a while ago, someone said that this was some kind of "overdrive" mechanic of these LCDs that claim to have 2ms response time, so now i am wondering if all the monitors are like this? my brother is about to buy a new LCD for his birthday, and he is wondering if he'll be seeing this same thing on other LCDs or is it just a problem with this 226BW?

Actually.. This is just a setting in the monitor menus. Just turn off the setting RTA and everything will be fine. Simple and easy.

Samsung monitors have a built in tool to increase response time. This tool often has issues such as what you mention. Turning it off fixes your issue. The main problem is... if you turn the monitor off.. when you turn it back on.. you have to turn off RTA again as the monitor does not store the setting. This can be an issue if you turn it off/on alot. Other than that.. the Samsung monitors are best in class usually. I highly recommend them.

I don't know the answer, but from what I understand the Samsung 226BW monitors have a 5ms response time. It's the overdrive/RTA which simulates 2ms. So if you turn it off, expect to get 5ms.

Also, I believe if you don't run at the native resoltuion (1680x1050) when RTA is turned on, then you will have problems like you mentioned. What resolution were you using?

I can't comment on the difference between 2 and 5ms response times other than to say that I strongly suspect that the difference is, at worst, not very significant (and at best it's not noticeable). I can, however, state that ghosting (the problem behind the whole discussion of response times) is not apparent on my samsung 8ms monitor.