Cheap Amiga-compatible LCD Monitor/TV in Australia

[Cammy]

Hello fellow Australians, if any of you are on the look out for a new LCD monitor for your Amiga, there may be a very suitable one coming out at Aldi next week (Monday 21st). I'm hoping that it's one of the models with a built-in flicker fixer, so it would be perfect to use with an RGB-S-Video adapter from AmigaManiac, or even better for Indivisions using HighGFX because it will hopefully show a 1024x768 screen without stretching it, provided you can switch it between 4x3 and 16x9. The native resolution is 1366x768, and it's a widescreen monitor.

I know a lot depends on how it turns out, but Aldi have a good refund policy so if it's no good you can take it back. It's just that every time they have a special this good, they sell out early on the day the sale starts.

Anyway, the monitors are 15.6" black, white or pink HD LCD TVs with built-in HD tuner, S-Video, VGA, HDMI, Component and AV inputs, they have a great energy rating, and they're only $199.

Here's more info if you wanna check them out, I'm planning on getting one so I can give back the monitor I've been borrowing for nearly a year. Thanks Gran for the Christmas money

http://www.aldi.com.au/au/html/offers/58_11302.htm

[Cammy]

DON'T GET ONE!!!

They can pick up PAL and NTSC modes and they display nicely with no flicker in interlace, but every five seconds the whole screen shudders! I think it's a problem with the built-in flicker fixer, but it happens on both the TVs I tested.

It also can not pick up the Indivision's HighGFX mode so they're pretty much completely useless as an Amiga monitor.

Sorry everyone.


Okay, I have found out since that they aren't so bad afterall! They DO pick up HighGFX, but onlky when the Indivision is set in 1.25 mode, which means all your games will look bad through the Indivision, but Workbench will be okay. Composite works fine, and S-Video from a CD32 works fine too. It's only the output from the V1.0 RGB S-Video adapters that causes the screen to jump every five seconds or so.

[Cammy]

Hi Fingers, did you try setting Workbench into Interlace mode and see if it works in your monitor? Some LCD TVs won't accept non-interlaced S-Video signals.