LCD Monitor success!

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I have to admit that CRTs beat LCDs almost every time in terms of picture quality.  

I love the low power consumption, wide screen aspect ratio and thin-ness of LCD monitors.  

But CRTs can handle tons of scan rates and resolutions and they always look great.  You can also view them from any angle without changes in brightness.

The only thing that really sucks about CRTs is how heavy and large they are.

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..and make it variable!  One day I may want to emulate a 1702, and the next I might want to emulate a 1084S!

Monitor emulators, the wave of the future. ..or past.

The future is already here.

WinUAE and VICE (commodore 8-bit emulator) already have PAL TV emulators, which add scanlines, blur, colour smearing, and noise artifacts.

Honestly, on my LED monitor, this sort of monitor emulation really makes it look like a television from the 1980s!  It's actually awesome....really gives things that retro feel and is the icing on the cake....one of the things that was really missing from retro computer emulation was the feel of the old monitors....the emulation was often too crisp and scan-doubled.

Oh, and I bought one of those Samsung BX LED monitors mentioned above.  Got it last week.  I'm using in with WinUAE.  It's a really good monitor, but like all LCD/LED monitors suffers somewhat from the limited field of view and aliasing of lower resolution screenmodes....but in 1920x1080 native resolution is sharp as a tack.