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Re:Ask HN: Can you recommend an “instant-switch” Monitor? Do... by chmod775 on Monday December 19, 2022 @01:59AM (#34049316)
With basic analog you could set it up in a way where you would just wait for the next frame (or don't even wait that long), but with the new digital stuff there's bootstrapping/handshaking - whatever you want to call it. It's not so simple anymore.
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Re:Ask HN: Can you recommend an “instant-switch” Monitor? Do... by lostdog on Monday December 19, 2022 @02:50AM (#34049577)
What could they possibly be doing that takes 4 seconds? That's ~4,000,000,000 instructions on a typical embedded processor.

It's much more likely that the handshaking was implemented by an incompetent organization that doesn't care about quality.

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Re:Ask HN: Can you recommend an “instant-switch” Monitor? Do... by MichaelZuo on Monday December 19, 2022 @12:06PM (#34054506)
It is extremely odd to see so many people in this thread ignore that a handshake requires billions of instructions to be executed for some reason....
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Re:Ask HN: Can you recommend an “instant-switch” Monitor? Do... by eurasiantiger on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @05:43AM (#34064121)
One of the grandparents of this comment thread explicitly ignored it; this is a discussion on frame buffering.
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