I was thinking of picking up an LCD TV this weekend, the idea being to hook it up to an amiga 500 or 600 and also other legacy computers and game consoles I might have hiding in the computer room. I'd like something with a 15-pin vga port and component (r/g/b rca connectors), but mainly i'm interested in a composite and svga connector for obvious reasons.
I'm concerned that the picture will look terrible, or won't show up at all, or will force a 4:3 picture to 16:9, or the mouse pointer will submarine, or any other weird annoying behavior that might appear.
Bonus points for a TV that will accept NTSC and PAL frequencies through the vga port so I can obviate the need for an scan doubler.
Can anyone suggest a make and model? Anything I should look for or avoid in terms of specs?
I don't know where you live, so I'm going to assume you're somewhere in Europe.
What you need is a LCD TV with a SCART socket, and an Amiga=>SCART RGB cable.
The TV will act as a flicker-fixer, so you'll be able to use Hi-res Laced mode.
The TV should have an aspect ratio button on it (if it hasn't, you've bought a really shonky TV) to allow you to force it to 4:3.
You'll have better luck and probably a better picture like this than with a scandoubler and a VGA LCD monitor, and you won't need to touch the VGA input on the TV at all.
