My cheap-ish Samsung (cheap for a QHD) has an HDMI and a DisplayPort input. If I hook up a laptop to each input, both laptops think the screen is on- even the one who is not currently being displayed.

I'm headed to a friend's to look at an Acer (about a month old) that isn't doing the input switch properly between HDMI and DVI. Most monitors I've worked with either autoscan to the next one with an ...

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