Cheap Amiga-compatible LCD Monitor/TV in Australia

[Rebel-CD32]

I'll be camping outside Aldi like it's a Star Wars premiere to get one of these at that price. I hope it works well with my HighGFX Workbench.

[Rebel-CD32]

I'm pretty sure it will, since it displays PAL video fine. If they do go on sale tomorrow (it appears to be the 26th they come out now) I'll report back on their compatibility.

[Rebel-CD32]

If I can find the appropriate cable, I'll try some VGA/Multiscan modes through it too. Since these things usually fix the flicker, running in Pal High Res Interlace through S-Video gives it a pretty nice display on the LCD, but because the resolution isn't native there'll always be pixel stretching and interpolation, just as there would be if you tried to run 640x480 or 800x600 through it.

[Rebel-CD32]

Damn, it looks like they're definitely not out until the 26th. Aldi opens at 8am on Saturdays, so if anyone wants one it'd be a good idea to be waiting there when the doors open.

[Rebel-CD32]

These monitors are perfect for CD32s, and not too bad for Indivision users.

I took a photo of the monitor running in HighGFX 1024x768 mode, in 4:3 (hence the black borders). The display is nice and crisp, it has the right amount of lines but there's still a small amount of interpolation horizontally, but nowhere near as bad as it was on a 1280x1024 monitor.

I picked out a faulty one, and didn't have time to take it back and exchange it before they were all sold out. It has a glowing spot on it, not like a dead pixel (which the one I got before this had, which I took back only to get this worse one). You can see the glowy spot down towards the bottom of the screen in the task bar area under EaglePlayer. Please excuse my GUI theme, it's a bit mixed up at the moment while I experiment with a few things.

[Rebel-CD32]

You can get the backdrop from Cammy's Amiga Christmas Tree website http://amigachristmastree.condor.serverpro3.com/index2008.html