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#354603 - 05/09/2012 02:19 Monitor with dimmable backlight?
larry818 old hand Registered: 01/10/2002 Posts: 1033 Loc: Fullerton, Calif.	Hi, well, I've wasted hours over days looking for this, and it seems for any question, someone here knows the answer... I'm looking for a monitor, preferable 24" 1920x1200, with a dimmable backlight. Dimmable like every laptop ever made. Do these even exist? The room I work in is not bright even in the day, and I tend to work well into the night. My current monitors are blinding. I've found only one model, but it's like $1700 usd, I'd like to find something much more reasonable. Thanks!
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#354604 - 05/09/2012 03:15 Re: Monitor with dimmable backlight? [Re: larry818]
andy carpal tunnel Registered: 10/06/1999 Posts: 5914 Loc: Wivenhoe, Essex, UK	Is this dimmable backlight somehow different to the brightness control ? _________________________ Remind me to change my signature to something more interesting someday
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#354605 - 05/09/2012 05:11 Re: Monitor with dimmable backlight? [Re: andy]
larry818 old hand Registered: 01/10/2002 Posts: 1033 Loc: Fullerton, Calif.	Yep, the brightness and contrast fiddle with the video settings, if you dim that way, it munges up the image.
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#354606 - 05/09/2012 12:24 Re: Monitor with dimmable backlight? [Re: larry818]
hybrid8 carpal tunnel Registered: 12/11/2001 Posts: 7738 Loc: Toronto, CANADA	The only ones I know definitively that support this are Apple's displays. _________________________ Bruno Twisted Melon : Fine Mac OS Software
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#354608 - 05/09/2012 13:57 Re: Monitor with dimmable backlight? [Re: hybrid8]
larry818 old hand Registered: 01/10/2002 Posts: 1033 Loc: Fullerton, Calif.	I'll look at those then, thanks!
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#354609 - 05/09/2012 14:41 Re: Monitor with dimmable backlight? [Re: larry818]
hybrid8 carpal tunnel Registered: 12/11/2001 Posts: 7738 Loc: Toronto, CANADA	On a Windows machine you'll have to install Apple's control panel to adjust the brightness, as the display doesn't have any buttons itself. https://discussions.apple.com/message/13135250?messageID=13135250#13135250?messageID=13135250 Isn't the backlight on Dell's IPS LED-backlit LCD monitors adjustable? _________________________ Bruno Twisted Melon : Fine Mac OS Software
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