While TFT-TVs are handy for amigas they are not the perfect solution on their own...the monitors discussed here are not multiscan monitors (at least mine isn't) in that they do not sync to below 31khz when in (vga) monitor mode
They can display PAL resolutions because they are routed either through scart/composite or s-video and presumably go through the tv-tuner circuitry rather than go straight to the display...the circuitry 'emulates' the behaviour of a tv so well that flickering is possible because the PAL resolutions are merely passed through the composite video-in rather than the vga-15 connector
so basically, it is like connecting your miggy to a TV - you get exactly the same behaviour; PAL resolutions are slightly blurred and the flickering is also there - just as when you connect an amiga to a tv-tuner card on your PC...
It is fine for playing OCS/ECS games in PAL - but if you want to do anything which requires detail then a scandoubler/ff is still required...
The DBLPal/NTSC & Multiscan resolutions do not have this problem and again you get the same result you would expect to get from any other VGA monitor. On the minus side TFT screens have only one 'optimal' resolution (usually 1024x768 or increasingly 1280x1024) meaning that there is a (very slight) imaga blurring when using resolutions other than the optimal (this is because the resolution does not really change -rather some 'creative' adjustment is involved)
conclusion:
- TFT-TVs/Monitors are good but not perfect
(but are a good middle of way solution which turns out to be good bang/buck)
- TFTs+SD/FF are a much better solution (but they cost more, and SD/FF are not easy to find nowadays)
- Good CRTs & SD/FF are as close to a perfect solution as one can get (they are not girlfriend friendly however and may diminish your ANCKAT* allowance)
(* ANCKAT = Average Number of Computers to be Kept at Any given Time)
