does pi 2 switch off monitor?

[solar3000]

I know pi 1 A/B will not switch off monitor, but instead send a dark screen.
Will the pi 2 switch off the monitor like typical PCs?

Just got my pi 2 today.

[blc]

A typical PC doesn't turn off the monitor when it powers down, it just stops sending video signals to the monitor. The same thing happens with the Pi (unless you're dealing with a CEC-compliant display, and it's extremely unlikely that your average monitor is CEC-compliant). Monitors can detect when there is no video signal and will go into a low-power standby state.

[klricks]

If your are referring to the screen blanking (screensaver) then there is no change, the screen goes black after 10 min but the back-light remains on.

[Joe Schmoe]

A typical PC doesn't turn off the monitor when it powers down, it just stops sending video signals to the monitor. The same thing happens with the Pi (unless you're dealing with a CEC-compliant display, and it's extremely unlikely that your average monitor is CEC-compliant). Monitors can detect when there is no video signal and will go into a low-power standby state.

Obviously, this depends entirely on what you consider "typical".

Current PCs, hooked up to a TV via HDMI and running "current" versions of Windows, do, indeed, do as the OP says.

Whether or not this is "typical" by your standards is a personal matter.

[blc]

A typical PC doesn't turn off the monitor when it powers down, it just stops sending video signals to the monitor. The same thing happens with the Pi (unless you're dealing with a CEC-compliant display, and it's extremely unlikely that your average monitor is CEC-compliant). Monitors can detect when there is no video signal and will go into a low-power standby state.

Obviously, this depends entirely on what you consider "typical".

Current PCs, hooked up to a TV via HDMI and running "current" versions of Windows, do, indeed, do as the OP says.

Whether or not this is "typical" by your standards is a personal matter.

I misunderstood the OPs question: I thought they were asking about the monitor being switched off by the Pi when the Pi is switched off - not the monitor going into standby while the Pi is still running.

If we're talking about what I thought we were talking about then I've never seen a monitor get switched off when the PC is switched off.