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9 years ago
My monitor, a ten-year-old Gateway, has an unusual color control panel that I'm still trying to adjust to see what I'm coloring roughly what it's going to look like on other monitors. Do any of my recent pictures look weird?
Also I am so tired of monitors having the brightness and contrast buried with the other controls. The Apple monitors I grew up with all had individual sets of buttons on the front for the brightness and contrast, because that's what you adjust depending on the light. Why did we stop that. How expensive are buttons. This monitor has five unlabeled buttons on the side, and where I expect the menu button to be is the channel button.
Also I am so tired of monitors having the brightness and contrast buried with the other controls. The Apple monitors I grew up with all had individual sets of buttons on the front for the brightness and contrast, because that's what you adjust depending on the light. Why did we stop that. How expensive are buttons. This monitor has five unlabeled buttons on the side, and where I expect the menu button to be is the channel button.
As for brightness and contrast controls not being as accessible: The reason they used to be easy to get at was because CRTs almost always had serious drift problems for both and needed far more frequent adjustments than current monitors.
This monitor is one of those that's geared towards looking the brightest and best with the blackest blacks so it stands out in the store compared to all the others. Once you get it home, if you care, you find it's not that faithful. I've never bought a monitor really, I just end up with hand-me-downs from friends, so I can't complain too loudly.