Other than Samsung, what other monitor brands offer software control?

@Kari, That's nice to know, I'll have more options to choose from when picking out my next monitor.

kbrady1979 said:

Britton30 said:

Two feet away, you shouldn't have to get up? I think both Catalyst Control and nVIDIA control panels offer brightness control.

To the OP: Just in case you didn't see it...

I did, it's 2.6ft to be exact. Point is, I don't want to reach for the monitor every time I want to adjust the settings.

kbrady1979 said:

The monitors Kari linked to have an anti-glare coating. I know most of the Dell's have an anti-glare coating........I wonder if that would help the OP instead of constantly fiddling with the brightness levels. I honestly can't remember touching the brightness levels on either of the last two monitors I've had. I also have an annoying light that washes over my display during the day, but the matte finish and anti-glare coating take care of that.

One brightness setting does not fit all. When I play games I want the brightness levels up, when I'm working on a document or reading a webpage I need the brightness down. Having the brightness all the way up when reading text, especially on a white background (i.e. this forum), is like trying to read text written on the sun.

That's why many monitors come with presets for different tasks.

I may be mistaken, only because I've never had to fiddle with the panel brightness after the initial tuning. I don't know how much control the OP needs, which is why I thought the other solutions would be enough.

logicearth said:

It seems a few people here are mistaking brightness control in games and in Nvidi's, AMD's control panels as the same thing as controling the brightness of the monitor. THEY ARE NOT. Adjusting the brightness in those ways only wash out the colors before they are sent to the monitor, they are horrible, ruining the image quality.

Adjusting the brightness of the monitor adjusts the backlight, not the colors. There is a difference between the two, a very big difference.

I was just about to make the exact same post. You are absolutely right.

My AMD Radeon HD 7950 video card's catalyst software has presets that you can make, surely it allows for brightness, have never toyed with though, but checked for the brightness setting, and it's there and you can make keyboard shortcuts for the presets... looks like what you want might be doable without additional software, I would hope Nvidia has this feature, also.

Faladu said:

My AMD Radeon HD 7950 video card's catalyst software has presets that you can make, surely it allows for brightness, have never toyed with though, but checked for the brightness setting, and it's there and you can make keyboard shortcuts for the presets... looks like what you want might be doable without additional software, I would hope Nvidia has this feature, also.

Scroll up and read logicearth's reply. Changing settings with your video card software and changing settings on the monitor are two very different things with completely different results.

If you can't use that software and get the results you want...you monitor might be going bad. I can't see needing THAT much brightness control when you are just a couple of feet away.

There's a big difference between 28 brightness (my reading brightness) and 100 brightness (my gaming brightness). If you can't tell the difference or it doesn't affect you then you probably have eyes that aren't very sensitive to light.