Scandoublers and Playstation2?

[Managarm]

I've been after a scandoubler for months but they're mad expensive. This looks like a decent alternative. Before I start bidding away would I be right in thinking that any of these will get my Amiga hooked upto the 17" TFT monitor that's itching to have Gloom on it?

http://search.ebay.co.uk/search/search.dll?from=R40&satitle=ps2+vga

[Managarm]

Thanks for that. When you say they're crappy quality will it be worse than the fifteen year old TV I'm currently using that has the unique feature of every time you change the volume the picture flickers and goes dark for about ten minutes?

[Managarm]

I bought one of those off Ebay the last week (it's coming from Canada so it could take a while.) When it arrives I'll post what it's like on here. In fact it was this thread that gave me the idea to do it.

[Managarm]

The box arrived yesterday which was pretty quick considering it was coming from Canada. It's really easy to set up and you can have a PC plugged into it as well and then run two machines from the same monitor. The quality is quite good once you've messed around with the onscreen menu. The only problem with it is higher resolution Workbench modes. Interlace still flickers. Having said that it's a million times better than the crappy 14" TV I've been using until now. Also if you get one you may be tempted to mess about with screenmodes such as Doublepal and Multiscan. This is of course wrong and will lead to loading Workbench off a floppy to fix as the screen goes blue when loading from HD. (It's actually the same shade as the Windows blue screen of death.) All in all worth the money but it's not a flickerfixer.

P.S Does anyone know what the mode VGA Only does?

[Managarm]

With regards to my last post on the Magic VGA box, I kind of stand corrected. I selected NTSC:high res laced and rebooted. When Workbench reloaded it was flicker free... but sadly in black and white. I tried changing the mode to NTSC using the early startup control but it didn't work. So if there's a way to get the NTSC mode in colout this is a fairly decent SD/FF.

[Managarm]

Thanks for the info. That's a shame as interlace looked really good in NTSC mode. Anyone who's got an NTSC Amiga and needs a cheap scandoubler, this is definitely worth a look.