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Why did we never have smart monitors?

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Thinker_145

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So I only recently started playing games in pitch darkness which now means I have to keep a different brightness for playing games. What this made me think that I didn't really think before is just how outdated the method of changing brightness is on my PC. My monitor isn't even that old it's a 2013 model.

I have to press 2 buttons on my LCD to get to brightness control and then have to go up/down with 1% steps. To make matters worse my LCD does not support any profile system.

But I shouldn't even have to touch my monitor to change brightness in 2016 one would think. Why did nobody care about this issue? Is it really difficult for OEMs to make the display talk with the OS? I mean I can do so much on my PC even with my smartphone and yet I can't even change brightness with my keyboard.
 
Not really sure if it's possible thru dvi,hdmi,etc.

My monitor has one of these that plugs into it. Allows 2 profiles to be saved. Also gives full menu control.

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Auto brightness on phones, tablets sucks for me at least. Not sure if I'd like it on a monitor in the end.
 
My BenQ has 3 custom settings, which I have 3 different brightness on. They even have a little external disc to press the button to do it with 1 press, though I just toggle with the OSD which is only 3-5 button presses to toggle anyway 'cause I don't really care to have the disc remote sitting on my desk.

There are monitors out there you can change settings through a phone app too.

http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/content/eizo_foris_fs2735.htm#additional_gaming

Just gotta shop for the features you want.
 
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There are plenty of panels out there with an included software suite that allow users to customize profiles, eco modes, pip settings, window docking, etc. Like crisium said, you just have to shop around.

I associate the 'smart' designation (at least for TVs) more to network and app capability, not hardware/software features. Monitors don't have 'smart' features because they've got a genius box plugged into them. :sneaky:
 
By smart I really meant being able to completely control the monitor's hardware settings through software. It already happens in all in one PCs no reason why we couldn't have affordable monitors with those.
 
Did you not click the TFT Central Eizo link?

It's not just for phones. You can do it in Windows.

This is exactly what you are asking for.
 
crisium said:
Did you not click the TFT Central Eizo link?

It's not just for phones. You can do it in Windows.

This is exactly what you are asking for.
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Hey I am sorry I missed your reply all this time. Anyways yes you are right that's exactly what I am talking about. It's too bad Eizo has terrible distribution network and there is no way for me to purchase one.

Just don't understand why nobody cares about this feature and hence the reason no other manufacturer bothers with it.
 
Thinker_145 said:
Hey I am sorry I missed your reply all this time. Anyways yes you are right that's exactly what I am talking about. It's too bad Eizo has terrible distribution network and there is no way for me to purchase one.

Just don't understand why nobody cares about this feature and hence the reason no other manufacturer bothers with it.
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High end NEC monitors have also had this feature for around a decade now, but they don't come cheap.

Well, cheaper than Eizo, but still not cheap.
 
Painman said:
High end NEC monitors have also had this feature for around a decade now, but they don't come cheap.

Well, cheaper than Eizo, but still not cheap.
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Can't buy those either lol. High end niche monitor brands simply don't exist in many parts of the world.

Sent from my HTC One M9
 
The auto brightness level control in monitors is called an ambient light sensor. From Windows 7 on, there is a feature that can be enabled to detect and automate that sensor in Windows. Ambient light sensors may also be added to some monitors that can enable this feature. Samsung, Dell, and Asus have produced monitors with such sensors
 
corkyg said:
The auto brightness level control in monitors is called an ambient light sensor. From Windows 7 on, there is a feature that can be enabled to detect and automate that sensor in Windows. Ambient light sensors may also be added to some monitors that can enable this feature. Samsung, Dell, and Asus have produced monitors with such sensors
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LED backlighting ought to make it more popular. Strobing a CCFL backlight to compensate for dim ambient light conditions creates visible flickering for some people. LEDs don't have this issue.
 
corkyg said:
The auto brightness level control in monitors is called an ambient light sensor. From Windows 7 on, there is a feature that can be enabled to detect and automate that sensor in Windows. Ambient light sensors may also be added to some monitors that can enable this feature. Samsung, Dell, and Asus have produced monitors with such sensors
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It would be nice to have that in a monitor but I am pretty sure I won't agree with some of its choices which will render it useless as an "automatic and forget it" sort of feature.

So many high end monitors being released by the likes of Acer, ASUS, Samsung, BenQ etc but yet none have the ability to be controlled through software. A $1000 display connected to the most versatile and powerful form of personal computing that exists and yet you can't control it through software.

Sent from my HTC One M9
 
Dell is releasing a 30" OLED monitor that knows when you are looking at it. It turns off when you look away and turns back on when you look at it. That's pretty damn smart. When you aren't looking, the Dell monitor only exists as a wave, but when you look, it collapses back into a monitor again.
 
moonbogg said:
Dell is releasing a 30" OLED monitor that knows when you are looking at it. It turns off when you look away and turns back on when you look at it. That's pretty damn smart. When you aren't looking, the Dell monitor only exists as a wave, but when you look, it collapses back into a monitor again.
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Call me a tinfoil hattie, but I don't really trust technology that institutes surveillance of any kind at this point...

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/facebooks-...istening-your-conversations-serve-ads-1563141
 
Thinker_145 said:
So I only recently started playing games in pitch darkness which now means I have to keep a different brightness for playing games. What this made me think that I didn't really think before is just how outdated the method of changing brightness is on my PC. My monitor isn't even that old it's a 2013 model.

I have to press 2 buttons on my LCD to get to brightness control and then have to go up/down with 1% steps. To make matters worse my LCD does not support any profile system.

But I shouldn't even have to touch my monitor to change brightness in 2016 one would think. Why did nobody care about this issue? Is it really difficult for OEMs to make the display talk with the OS? I mean I can do so much on my PC even with my smartphone and yet I can't even change brightness with my keyboard.
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It's called DDC/CI and it's been around for almost 20 years.
 
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