An LCD-TV question

[Caius]

Seems to be a lot of LCD-TV and scandoubler related questions going on these days. Nevertheless, I have another one.

So I'm extremely tempted to grab a Samsung SyncMaster 741MP, which is a 17" monitor with TV-tuner and SCART connector. But I'm getting a little confused when looking at its specs. It's reported at 56-75 Hz vertical sync. Now, since I'm living in a PAL country, I'm a little surprised it doesn't go down to 50Hz? Do these monitors/TV's do some sort of upsampling?

[Caius]

@both

Thanks both of you. I expected as much, but I just hate wasting money on something that doesn't end up doing what I expected.

Yeah, I think that monitor will be nice for an Amiga. If I get some graphics card in the future, it'll act as a monitor switcher as well.

[Caius]

Hmm, more and more I get the urge to buy an Amiga, but in the Netherlands, good ones are rare and expensive. And don't even think of big box Amiga's.

AmigaKit has a good stock of A1200's, and at a decent price I think. Of course you'd still have to shell out for an accelerator card if you want that, and that may very well cost as much as the A1200. Or more.

[Caius]

[...] if I make a rough estimation I'll end up paying around €450/340GBP/$665 and that's way too expensive.

I paid ~£143 incl. shipping for A1200 + 40GB HD + PCMCIA Ethernet card. Did your estimate include tower, mediator, etc?

No matter. It's off-topic really.

[Caius]

Good to hear you're happy with it Pertinax, since it's the cheapest Monitor/TV solution I've found. At least where I live.

[Caius]

Could you guys please start a new thread if you're going to discuss buying an Amiga? Let's keep this thread to LCD-TVs.

I know, I know. I was the first one to bring it up :crazy:

[Caius]

Just a little update. I eventually bought the Samsung SyncMaster 741MP. I have my PC on the VGA connector and the Amiga on the SCART. The VGA picture quality is superb. Best monitor I've had! The Amiga picture is very sharp, but it's a little "jittery". That means, it's not as rock solid as I had hoped. Interlaced resolutions looks as nasty as ever, so I'm running a normal Hires Workbench. I've overscanned it to 668x275 pixels in order to fill the screen properly. All in all I think it's as good as you can expect from normal AGA output.