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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: iamaboringperson on February 15, 2003, 09:15:58 PM
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i was just thinking of how much i hate having a pewney 15" monitor!
so i think ill be buying a 21" Sony Trinitron soon
mabee ill have 3 in a row! with 2 pci graphics cards!
(http://www.centercom.com.au/products/sony_g520.jpg)
perhaps then i can stop scrolling around windows, and shuffling around windows so often!!
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I use a 21" Belinea..
Your right !!
Its the Biz !!
Whenever someone visits .. They say
WoW !!
:-o
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I just got a brand new 19" monitor dirt cheap.
;-)
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Small monitors are no fun! :-x
I've got two Trinitron monitors (a 17" PeeCee one, and a 20" SUN one), and there just absolutely awsome!
Cheers,
Clark
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Iiyama monitors are good quality. My S900MT1 (19") is a few years old now, hasn't lost focus at all or geometry, and I paid ~£180 for it (a very good price for that size monitor).
Usual res: 1280x1024x85Hz. Can do 1600x1200x75Hz but I prefer 85Hz.
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Check out this place for 21" monitors, pretty good prices on refurbished units, like $379.
(http://www.canadamonitors.com/sony500.jpg)http://www.canadamonitors.com/ (http://www.canadamonitors.com/)
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Hi iamaboringperson, i just buy a new monitor last week, but i won´t play with CRT monitors any more, so i get a nice SONY LCD 17´ :).
(http://www.sonystyle.com/intershoproot/eCS/Store/en/imagesProducts/180x180/SDMS71.jpg)
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I hope you guys don't get neck strain from all those big monitors, :=) I had a 17" Dell shipped from SoftHut for $69! Outstanding monitor, weighs a ton, but nice. Oh, it was a off-lease deeal, glad I got one with no problemos~
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I got a Mitsubushi Diamond Pro 720, 17 inches seems plenty although a decent TV size monitor would be nice for watching DVDs on.
Any way to link a computers DVD player to a TV? I know a nice expensive projector could be connected for a mini cinema experience, but would that damage it? :-?
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Mike_Amiga wrote:
Any way to link a computers DVD player to a TV?
There are adaptors that will convert a VGA signal into an NTSC or PAL signal but they tend to be expensive. It's more cost effective to purchase a video card that has a TV out. Many of the ATi Radeon cards have SVideo outputs on them. SVideo to composite converters are fairly inexpensive (i.e. around $10-$15US).
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iamaboringperson wrote:
i was just thinking of how much i hate having a pewney 15" monitor!
I went from a 15" to a 19" a few weeks ago. When you get your new monitor, you'll wonder why you didn't upgrade ages ago!
Steve
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I`ve got a 17" unbranded monitor + a 19" Belinea. Great monitor. Just one question. Has anybody had a monitor which goes a bit funny when you switch screens. When I say "funny", I mean it goes black makes a couple of clunky noises then comes back. This doesn`t happen everytime, but mostly. Can be annoying. Makes my computer look like it can`t multi-task. Its cool apart from that. You have to have 17" monitor at the minimum really. Otherwise its like using a giant PDA. :-)
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Sounds like a multisync monitor, Nick.
Shouldn't be a problem as their designed to do that !!
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you lucky boogies you.. i still have my 1084st! (the neighbor still won't let me borrow his full-wall dvd-vcr projector!)
(http://www.staticfiends.com/forum/images/smilies/allesmoegliche030.gif)
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@The Editor
Ahhhh thanks. Still annoying though :-)
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@nick:
Imagine yourself going down to the local pc dealer and asking:
'Get me a nice new monitor which doesn't click when i switch screens'
'Erm......HUH?'
;-).
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Actually when I saw this in my head it was funny...rereading it wasn't. Oh well...there you go :-).
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@nick
The Editor is right that sounds like a multisync monitor, and it should sound like that if you multitask betwen programs that use different screenmodes/resolutions.
I should know,since i have 3 old multisync screens. Commodore 1942 & 1940, Amiga 1438S.
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I bought an AOC 17" from dabs las month for £89, it's a flat screen, does 1600x1200 at 75Hz and 1280x1024 at 85Hz. It was a bargain, they also have 19" ones for a little more.
I'm kicking myself for using a little ####ty monitor for so long, degrading my eyes and pissing me off. Get a decent monitor now, you'll never regret it!
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Hehe Yeeeeees
Yes if you have a small monitor you don`t know what your missing. Its the same difference a new graphics card makes compared to AGA. TVPaint in 1280x1024 looks very nice! I use 1152x864 for a lot of programs, but its nice to have big resolutions to play with.
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I've got a lovely 21" Panasonic PanaSync/Pro 7GX monitor. It definitely makes a difference. :-D
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/me still mucks about with a 15" for the PeeCee and a crappy old distorted 14" for the miggy. :-x
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My friend bought Samsung 172T.
http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1785 (http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1785)
It looks good. And he is very happy.
(and I'm green of envy, untill I get mine)
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I cant help but tell u guys what I recently got.
Samsung 240T..
24" TFT WIDE...
1920x1200 native resolution.
3200 euros..
Haven't tried it on my A4k yet.. But I'll bet it will be nice..
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@KPK
Not fair. Oh well at least this thing is hooked upto my Amiga automated-computermachine. :-)
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I have a cool LCD on my Amiga :-P
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I have a 20" Eizo and it's quite nice :-)
I like the feature of having two inputs in the monitor, so I have my peecee and my amiga connected to it and I switch using a button of the front panel.
For amigans this is a quite interesting feature, I advise getting a monitor with two inputs to anyone with a miggy.
I guess you'll know it, but remember that every Trinitron monitor has one or two horizontal (and very thin) lines that cross the screen. Many people won't notice it, it depends a lot of what are you showing in the screen... anyway I'm quite satisfied with my monitor and I don't care much about the two lines.
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Am using an NEC Multisync FE700 flatscreen with my A2000, looks pretty darn good tome, it too has two horizontal lines running accross the screen, am told it's some kind of wire embedded in the CRT screen for some reason.
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Monitors are sure getting cheap. I remember about 2 or so years ago paying over AUD$1000 for a Philips 19" monitor. Similar speced Philips monitor costs about AUD$500 - $600 now. LCD are going pretty cheap aswell. I saw a Hercules Prophetview 720 (I thinks), 15" LCD and great for 3D games, for only AUD$550, new. I was tempted to buy it, but I needed the money to build a new setup for myself ;) I read somewhere, that the growth of LCD's is overtaking CRT's here in Australia, in terms of %growth from the previous year.
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I'm really pleased with a monitor I purchased from IBM. It's a nice black 17inch flat screen monitor (its the G78). Cost me $399 AUD late last year. I'm extremely pleased with it.