New Amiga monitor

[AmiDude]

@ Sturulez

Just buy the 17" BenQ BL702A or19" BenQ BL912 LED monitor. They produce crisp screens. Don't hack your system with an internal scandoubler/flickerfixer. Many heat related problems (lock ups and such) are due to that SF/FF crap.

[AmiDude]

Thanks everyone for your input.

Im still sitting on the fence deciding weather to get a LCD TV or a LCD Monitor. I suppose with LCD TV the setup is easier as all you need is a SCART converter cable?

If I was to purchase a monitor I would only need the following?

•             Amiga RGB to VGA Monitor Adapter
  

• Dual Phono To Stereo 3.5mm Socket Audio Cable
  

Yes, that's correct, you only need those two for sound and vision.

[AmiDude]

Yeh I suppose CRT would be the better option.

Then again if I purchase a second hand CRT amiga monitor there is no saying how long it will last. Taking into consideration of the age of the monitor.

Don't worry about the quality of playing games on the BenQ LED monitor (yes, it's a LED - NOT LCD!). The horizontal and vertical scrolling in games is just as smooth as on a CRT monitor. The only thing is that you can't fill the whole screen (except for overscanning the Workbench screen with the "Overscan prefs"). But because it's a 17" inch screen, the games are displayed as 15''. Just like you're old Amiga CRT monitor.
If you buy the 19'' BenQ, the display is even bigger!

[AmiDude]

So how do Amiga games look on an LCD TV if you use RF or composite?

It looks like crap! NEVER use RF or composite.

[AmiDude]

Go for a good crt monitor/tv with rgb (scart) input if you want to play games on it, otherwise it's gonna be very expensive to get a decent picture.

The Benq BL702A LED monitor cost only about 81BP (113 Euro) by Amazon UK.
Maybe he can afford it!  

[AmiDude]

Uhm it is a LCD monitor, it's just backlit by LED but it's still a LCD monitor.
What you ment was that your LCD monitor is LED backlit instead of CCFL.

Of course, everybody knows that!

[AmiDude]

Yeah that's my video.  Not sure if I mentioned it, but the Samsung wasn't the first display I tried either.

I had a 15" ALBA LCD before it, being a cheap display, as you can imagine it looked crap, it didn't even flicker fix interlace modes.

I replaced that with a 19" 4:3 Sony, but never liked the way it looked, I then tried that 22" Samsung, and again was just never satisfied.  

Amigas (especially games) just do not look "right" on LCD screens imho.

Now I have my Amiga 4000 hooked up to a 19" Mitsubishi Diamondtron via Picasso IV and my A600/CD32 is on the Philips CM8833-II.  Both look streets ahead of any LCD I've tried for the Amiga.

Unfortunatly, you've picked the wrong monitors. The BenQ BL702A is a decent monitor for a reasonable price that outputs a crisp screen without any distortion or ghosting. Take a look at this thread:
http://www.amibay.com/showthread.php?72625-Amiga-VIDEO-VGA-(DSUB)-Adapter&highlight=benq