Multi-Amiga Flicker Fixer

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I've just recently found out about these and am getting quite excited!

$32 with free shipping for a flicker fixer?  Sounds too good to be true (even if I have to make my own cable).

Can't be that easy?  Can it?

There are a ton of threads about using this converter - but no one seems to be stating the obvious - what is the video quality like?  Same as RGB quality on a 1084?  Poor as composite?  More like S-Video quality?

Can someone please describe the video quality?  If it's as good as native RGB on a 1084 then I'm buying one of these immediately for my A500!

Thanks.

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lol

not even close.
IMHO

That's wierd.  I've seen other posts where people are saying it's quite good.  I wish I could see a high quality screen grab so I can judge better.

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AmmoJammo,

Thanks a lot for those pictures. They were EXTREMELY informative.  I agree that if you have nothing, or mostly do gaming, having one of these Chinese boards may be better than nothing.  But the banding on the solid colours is just unuseable for my purposes (DPaint painting - where solid colours would come up a lot).

I'm assuming the second photo in each pair is SCART?

You guys are lucky to have SCART in Europe.  We didn't get anything decent like that until S-Video came around.

As for the S-Video adapter, thanks Djos.  I actually have a few Amiga CRT monitors handy at the moment, but was just considering the Chinese flicker fixer because it would give me some backup and an option to move onto commonly available LCDs when these CRTs died.  Hopefully when they do there will be a better solution.  I can't really use one of Jens' Indvisions right now, because I've got a few other things inside my A500 that would make if very difficult to fit another internal device.

So the Commodore CRTs will have to do for now.

Thanks very much.

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Yes but why was it so? I can certainly understand why scart wasn't an option in America, because it was also called an euro connector, and in America only american standards will do

But why didn't you have a similar alternative standard? Am I right in assuming that it was the movie industry that was afraid of the possibility for people to copy video tapes with decent quality?

Well, I'm not in America, I'm in Canada, but we shared the NTSC standard.

Not only did we not have something as good as SCART - we didn't even get separate composite / audio connectors until the early to mid 1990s on our televisions.  We had to use the 75-Ohm RF "cable tv" connector.

You might have got the audio/video composite connectors on expensive TV's slightly earlier, but in the average price range it was 75-Ohm connector, or even worse, 75-ohm connector adapter going to the two TV aerial bolts on the back of the TV.

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Yeah same deal here in Australia (PAL), even when Composh!te became standard it wasnt even stereo on most tv's until Component inputs became standard with the advent of DVD players.

Yup, it was a mono audio input and you had to buy a Y-adapter to turn your stereo VCR into mono to view on the TV.

Then around 1997 S-Video started showing up slowly with the advent of DVD players (it was around a few years earlier for videophiles, but didn't trickle down to the general consumer until DVD players came out).

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Last time I checked, both Canada and Mexico were part of North America.
Did you guys move recently?

Yeah, I know we're part of "the Americas" literally speaking. But in Canada we all call the USA "America" and its citizens "Americans".  We would never call ourselves "Americans" and if you called a Canadian that he/she would probably correct you or may even take slight offense.  Nothing against the USA, it is a great country.

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Arent Canadians just Americans that cant pronounce "about" properly?

Aren't Australians just New Zealanders who can't pronounce "fish n' chips" correctly!  I mean, it's SUPPOSED to sound like "Fashion shops", after all.  ;-)

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Ah our beloved sheep loving cousins, I think more of them live in Australia than NZ now!

That's okay.  I think by now Hollywood, California is run by Canadians (secretly, of course).  We must export at least 75% of our talent there!