Hi,
does anyone know of a current monitor that fulfills the following requirements:
I can’t find any such monitor anywhere!
Help greatly appreciated.
Why don’t you just code it yourself 
I assume you checked the major brands:
Sony, NEC, Philips, Mag, Viewsonic, Princeton, Samsung, etc.?
Heh
I’ve checked about 10 different monitors on Ebay (new ones), and not a single one had brightness/contrast controls.
Thats bs. Brightness/Contrast is the most simple thing to include on any CRT. I’m really irritated at the current direction of certain aspects of computer hardware…
Of course, LCD is out of the quesiton, but maybe OLED will provide better flat-panel displays.
Yep, it is irritating that you have to navigate through whacky C64-like On-Screen-Displays and press about 10 different buttons and hold other buttons 10 seconds to adjust your brightness, instead of turning a simple knob 20 degrees to the right, like it used to be a few years ago.
That’s just what I want to avoid :_)
yeah, and it is almost as old as me
and it’s mine, you can’t have it.
(it is a switch on the front actually. I use it because I can read it at 800*600 and it supports synch-on-green (my other monitors don’t fufil both requirements))
these days, good luck, and especially finding one cheap. I am curious if a apple cinema display doesn’t fufil your requirements, and how?
I don’t care too much about the price, as this is an investment that would last for many years.
My generic “problem” with the world nowadays is: Why do things constantly get worse, and everyone is happy with it?
(And don’t get me started on details… it is worse if you have to press and hold five buttons and wait about 10 seconds until you reach your desired level of brightness or contrast instead of JUST turning a knob!)
But most people make these settings only once or in any case a very limited amount of times.
Yes, but I often noticed that I am not most people 
I adjust the settings all the time. Whether it’s daylight, or night… whether I have the lights in the room turned on or not… when I switch between the two inputs because the VGA cards have different output levels, etc…
And after all, who cares? The pots are cheaper than the D/As necessary for controlling voltages/resistances with the on-screen display.
Hell, I would make a LOT of money if I just opened a monitor factory
There’s also the issue of cosmetics…it seems to me that monitor manufactures are trying to clean up the front of monitors. They used to be covered with buttons and knobs…maybe people found that intimidating. I don’t know…but I’m pretty sure that if you went outside of the commercial market to the professional market, you’d find a display of the quality you’re talking about. Most people don’t care about input levels and constantly adjusting brightness and contrast…
The issue of cosmetics? I LOVE machines when they have as many controls, buttons and leds as possible.
But yeah, it’s a general tendancy in our society to give up the important things and concentrate on things that sell.
My viewsonic monitor is fully controllable. It has buttons and everything. I like buttons. They are kewl.
What model do you have? The ones I’m currently checking out only have 4 simple buttons on the front…
E70F. It also has 4 buttons, but they are for navigating a menu, which controls brightness contrast and some other stuff.
He wants KNOBS that actually change brightness etc. None of this fancy pants menu crap.
I don’t think they exsist anymore. I have the same complaint about synthesizers. I like knobs, and they all seem to have mostly digital data entry.
Well, they still manufacture synthesizers with knobs (see Virus, Nova, etc.)…
They are VIRTUALLY analog, but they managed to use GOOD A/D converters to give the pots an actual analog feel.
Too sad they don’t achieve that for monitors!
I wonder, do you also want knobs for the horizontal/vertical postion and size?
its not like the old days 
you know what would be even better a few sensors on the moniter to adjust it for you so you would have perfect gamma day and night.
I solved the Day/Night issue by blocking out my windows.