Amiga and monitors. How'd you do it?

[ChaosLord]

I searched and didn't find any such threads...
 
For everyone who has hooked up their Amiga to a monitor/ TV, please...please, share how you did it, so others can do the same thing without buying a monitor only to find out that they have to return it.
 
1) Which Amiga do you have? 500, 1000, 1200?
 

All

2) Which monitor, TV are you using? Model #?
 

Amiga 1084S, NEC Multisync 75

3) Did you use an adapter? Which one?
 

1084S requires NO adapter whatsoever and it supports all Amiga 500 modes.
NEC Multisync 75 requires a flickerfixer.  It supports all Amiga FlickerFixer video modes.
I can play any NTSC or PAL game on either monitor.

4) How did you get everything to work together?
 

plug & play 5 minutes

[ChaosLord]

PS You will not really get a stock Amiga to run on a PC monitor without a graphics card.

Wrong!

I have been using PC monitors on my Amigas without any silly graphics card since 1990!

It is called a FlickerFixer.  It requires no drivers, no software and no problems and works with any normal PC monitor.  FlickerFixer = 1000% compatible.

[ChaosLord]

No flickerfixer. Sharp LC42DH77E syncs down to Amiga frequencies. And it's just like plugging in a generic PC to a PC monitor. Ordinary VGA cable. Took one from my PC monitor actually. Of course you need RGB to VGA dongle for the Amiga end.
It is a 42 inch, full HD 1080p TV. Supports 50, 60 and 100 Hz.
But being a SCART equipped TV, I don't know if this model is on sale in the US.

The instruction manual says it only works with 60hz.
And it only lists 31.5Khz and up for the VGA port.

[ChaosLord]

I'm a real rookie, so please pardon me. But, does the khz matter if it's going through an RBG adapter? When I called Sharp, the customer service rep said the Khz doesn't matter, just the resolution.
 
Is this true? Does ONLY the S-video input matter?
 
Here's a list of different LCDs with S-vid input:
http://reviews.cnet.com/tvs/?filter=1104537_5000985_500961_113205_500963_20611511_&tag=mncol;dir3

Amigas do not produce S-Video.

If Amigas did make S-Video it would be all blurry like all S-Video is.

Amigas produce RGB crystal clear video on the RGB port which connects to the VGA port of the TV/Monitor.  On the VGA port, the Khz matters a lot.

[ChaosLord]

Nopity nope
Well it HAS to do 50 Hz. It's a European PAL TV. It also does 60 Hz and 100 Hz. Tested with my PC.
And I don't have any flicker fixers on my A1200 and A600 So it does 15 KHz. Kickstart screen and everything

Ok I am glad u double clarified things.

What we can surmise from this is that either:
A: The ppl who write instruction manuals at Sharp are idiots.
or
B: Someone at Sharp forgot to activate the Sabotage code that disables the 15Khz compatibility.

I wish to Huelsbeck you had a 50 inch version of that monitor (or 55 inch because I would try to buy one right now.

But as it is only 42 inches....  I am thinking about it...

Have u ever connected ur windoze pc to ur 42" monitor/TV?  How did it look?

The reason I ask is because the review I just read claims that the triangular pixels make it not the best choice for pc usage.  PC usage is the main reason I want a large LCD monitor.  Secondly I want to be able to connect my Amiga up to it.

The review also said that ur monitor does not do free deinterlacing, even tho the previous model did. (?!?)

I suppose it is too old to have an LED backlight?

[ChaosLord]

You apparently haven't seen the screenshots of Amiga's running s-video that are posted elsewhere here.
They are very sharp...

They can be as sharp as they want.

But they cannot be as sharp as RGB/VGA.

[ChaosLord]

Where'd you get it? I'm looking for one on amiga-hardware.com but I don't think that site is maintained--there's no cart to buy anything...

I may need a flicker fixer.

In the 80's I sold the Microway Flickerfixer.  But as soon as I found out it was NTSC-ONLY I declared it to be evil and stopped selling them.

In 1990 I got a flickerfixer built in for free inside my A3000.  It even has a VGA port and everything.

Eventually I bought a used A1200 that had a flickerfixer preinstalled.  It is a DCE ScanMagic that seems to work on all PAL/NTSC/Euro36 modes.
It even works in SUPERHIRES MODE!  1280x512!  It supports all 16 Million of the Amiga's colors.  It only works on A1200/A4000.