Why did Commodore put monochrome video output on A500/A2000?

[djos]

The Biz market back in the 80's was 80%+ Monochrome because Colour monitors were quite a bit more expensive and so I supect that the composite output was to cater for that market.

I got given my c64 with a Composite Green monochrome screen and I remeberber seeing a lot of biz computers being mono only (in PC land it was MGA aka Hercules GFX cards).

iirc not having the extra colour pixels made for more pixels on mono screens and the GFX looked sharper and smoother as a result.

[djos]

Im gonna fire up my 13" mono screen on one of my 500's now, I wanna see what it looks like!

[djos]

Well this is what WorkBench 3.1 looks like on a 14" Green Composh!te Monitor from my 500+'s mono-Composh!te output!

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/71121999/Amiga/2013-01-22%2019.40.19.jpg

It does look slightly better in RL but trying to photograph a 50hz screen is really damned hard!

[djos]

It's a shame they didnt put S-Video on the a500's and other wedge Amiga's just like the Commodore 64 had.

[djos]

S-video output on a C64?
Where?
I don't even think they had that standard at that time.

Yeah the 82' model with 5-pin connector doesnt but the 83-84+ models do but there was no mini-din standard plug at the time:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Video#Connector_and_Cable

If you look at the 1084s monitor for example, it has chromina and Lumina inputs which is just S-Video using RCA connectors.

http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showhardware.cgi?HARDID=849

I personally use a c64 S-Video cable to connect to my Sony Bravia and the PQ is awesome.