KuroSama

I watch a lot of downloaded videos on my PC via video out to an HDTV that sits just a few feet away (dual monitor configuration, secondary monitor is the TV). This all works well in principle but it's super annoying to have to deal with the glare from the primary monitor while watching a show on the TV (especially in a dark room). I didn't want to constantly switch the primary monitor's power on and off, so I wrote a small application to blank any given monitor on a multi-monitor system in software.

KuroSama is really easy to use, just pass in the index of the monitor you wish to blank as a command line argument. So for example to blank your primary monitor you'd run "KuroSama.exe 0" and to blank your secondary monitor you can run "KuroSama.exe 1". To unblank a monitor, simply right click anywhere in its area. Just bind these commands to hotkeys in Windows and you should be all set.

Downloads

• KuroSama (final version, with C++ source)

Images

Video playback on a dual monitor system (1600x1200, 1280x720); the left monitor is blanked.