My partner and I have a few new monitors, and some older ones. The new ones all seem to have the problem that the buttons are not responsive.
Often, if the monitor doesn’t detect a signal, you just can’t enter the menu and the monitor turns off. Which becomes annoying when you are trying to change the inout to something that is putting out signal.
On the older monitors, the menus and buttons seem wholly divorced from the monitors state beyond being on or off. You change inputs and the little blue menu doesn’t even blink.
So what changed technically speaking? I would imagine the newer monitors have faster micro controllers. Is there some standard everyone uses now that sucks? Or have I just gotten unlucky and many modern monitors have more responsive buttons?
I really hate their power saving features. When combined with other shitty power saving features from the computer I encountered a case where the monitor turns itself off because it’s not receiving a signal and the PC is not sending any signal because it is not detecting anything connected anymore.
Also, because they take a few seconds to turn on and show a splash screen I have to guess by noise of the fans when I can press the key to enter the bios or select the boot drive.