mintfresh wrote:
skurk wrote:
mintfresh wrote:
How does the Amiga look on a LCD TV? I was thinking of getting one for the computer room my Amiga is in. I reasoned that since LCDs have to de-interlace an image to display it, that they wouldn't suffer from flicker with interlace modes? Also, a HD TV would be able to display all the standard Amiga Hi-Res resoultions wouldn't it?
I'm using the RGB to SCART cable from Amigakit to get my A600 on a 15" LCD TV. Lo-res and hi-res looks great, almost as on a normal monitor. Interlaced modes flicker as they did on the 1084. Maybe other TV's will deinterlace or "deflicker" better than mine. And, yes, it displays all the modes correctly.
Thanks for the advice. Its strange that it still flickers, I thought that since LCD's didn't refresh in the same way as a CRT (i.e. line by line) that interlaced modes had to be de-interlaced first.
I might have to give my Amiga a go on the downstairs TV and see how that looks.
Basically, you won't get any refresh flicker from LCDs, but interlace flicker can still be an issue. Not all LCDs de-interlace, so in theory you'd need one that displays (or "converts") everything in a progressive scan format.
I have no idea how laced modes would look... I suppose it depends on the quality of the LCD. (I figure it can't be much worse than a scandoubler and 50Hz refresh on a CRT, which trashes my eyes in a matter of minutes.) Any kind of de-interlacing will produce some amount of artifacting, though.
