[digitallyfree]

DDC is great - I remember saving a Samsung 193P monitor (no buttons and controlled by a proprietary driver that only worked on WinXP) that had its brightness set unusably low by its prior owner. I also remember someone using DDC scripts as a KVM solution by switching the monitor inputs programmatically.

[kadoban]

Ya I use DDC as part of a KVM, it works pretty well.

I have a usb switcher with a button, and then my desktop I have coded up to switch the input on my monitor when the keyboard appears/disappears (udev rules trigger that).

[jmarcher]

I had 2x 173P back then. Even to this day, the build quality and design is amazing. The panel not so much, but hey, it was 2004.