Is It Possible to Blank Out the iMac Screen While Mirroring?

I have my iMac hooked up to a Sony Bravia HDTV and would like to know... I am mirroring the displays so whatever shows up on my iMac shows up on my Sony TV, can I black out the screen on the iMac so I can only see the images on the Sony TV? Or do I have to set it up so the Sony TV acts like a 2nd monitor and I have to drag stuff onto the screen?

Can you just switch off the mac screen with the brightness key (top row, 2nd from left)? That's what I do when having my macbook hooked up to an external display - which is most of the time.
You probably looking for something more 'automatic' - as windows would do when using an external display. Not sure if it can be done with mac.

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