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Re:Dell 38 inch UltraSharp monitor by ScottBurson on Saturday July 22, 2017 @04:51PM (#14829308)
You would think monitor manufacturers would the brightness control go all the way to barely visible, but they don't. I have two monitors, an Asus and a Dell, both set to what they consider brightness level 0, and neither quite as dim as I'd like.
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Re:Dell 38 inch UltraSharp monitor by sokoloff on Saturday July 22, 2017 @08:59PM (#14830326)
On most display devices, "contrast" controls the white level and "brightness" controls the black level. (These controls of course interact.)

For your use case, you might want to be adjusting contrast down.

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Re:Dell 38 inch UltraSharp monitor by ianai on Saturday July 22, 2017 @04:58PM (#14829342)
You can get them to go lower at that point by decreasing the contrast. But yes, you highlighted what my problem with brighter displays is.
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