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The OSD and control system is consistent with the style used in other AOC displays. It looks just about identical, with the same settings we’ve seen before.
Left and right buttons navigate through the menus, with a single confirmation, or ‘OK’ button, and a single step back, or ‘cancel’ button.
Pressing any of the buttons in normal use brings up shortcuts to volume control or display input, while the fourth one along brings up the main menu of settings, which appears as a transparent box at the bottom of the screen. As there are no built-in speakers, the volume control only adjusts the headphone output from the rear 3.5mm jack.
The OSD setup screen gives the usual settings to adjust the software appearance. You can move the menu around horizontally or vertically, change the language, adjust the transparent background, change the OSD Timeout and set a break reminder, which warns you to move away from your PC every 30 minutes or so (hah, as if!)
The Luminance menu lets you adjust brightness and contrast, with three gamma settings labelled Gamma 1-3. There’s Dynamic Contrast Ratio support, an Overdrive setting for reduced ghosting, and an ECO mode to dim the brightness and save energy.
The Picture Boost menu provides controls for a setting called Bright Frame. Bright Frame makes a section of the screen brighter than the rest of the display, highlighting something of important (a map in an FPS game, perhaps?) You can adjust the size and position of it, but in use this was a setting we left turned off.
The Color Setup screen let you adjust the colour preset, with Warm, Cool and Normal available, along with a User mode which gives access to a three-way RGB colour slider on the right.
The Extra menu has a few more useful settings. Change the input manually, set the screen to power off when not in use, change the image aspect ratio and reset the AOC I2781FH to its default settings.
