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Re: What is the best Amiga moniter
« on: August 15, 2012, 05:50:49 AM »
The Commodore 1960 is the best all-around Amiga monitor, handling all Amiga modes from all Amiga configurations while looking the part of an Amiga monitor.  But useless today as most of them have failed.  

Other than not working, it also lacks speakers.
 

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Re: What is the best Amiga moniter
« Reply #1 on: August 15, 2012, 10:13:40 PM »
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The 1950 and 1960 were two of the poorest made monitors I'd ever meet in my repair career. They did handle all the Amiga modes, but what good is that if it's dead. The quality of all components including the flyback transformer were so poor that even after one was repaired it would not last long. IMHO, "shotgunning" the mother board and replacing most of the hundreds of components with higher quality stuff would make these monitors useful.

Not worth your money or trouble buying one unless you just want it for the collectors value. Trying to use one as a daily monitor will just bring you heart break one day. Can't recall total how many I eventually worked on, but there are maybe half a dozen out there in the wild that I repaired by upgrading several components including the flybacks. They *might* still be running. BTW the later model 1084S was almost as bad as the 19xx's (not the earlier 1084S, it was ok)

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As I said, other than not working, these are fantasic monitors.
 

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Re: What is the best Amiga moniter
« Reply #2 on: August 15, 2012, 10:18:05 PM »
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The Commodore 1080 Amiga monitor is THE best monitor ever produced for the Amiga computers.  This is not my opinion, it is a fact.  The Commodore 1080 Amiga monitor was made in Japan and is extremely high quality.  Many are still in use today, with the same bright, clear picture they had back in 1985.  I have one sitting on my Amiga 2500 and it looks really nice.


Doomy - do you believe that there is a difference between your opinion and fact?  

For what it's worth, I tend to agree that those 1080 monitors are very nice.  If they have one downfall, it might be that they cannot always reach the Euro36 scan rates offered by the ECS chipset, so NTSC flicker in interlaced mode is about as bad as it can get.