Amiga to pc monitor

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I bought a nice cheap 20 inch LCD TV for the bedroom and it's great with the Amiga. You just need to fiddle with a couple of the settings but I get a nice clear and sharp picture. The TV make is Bush and I got it from Argos last year.

Actually I have had another cheap LCD that seemed to work great with it. I just had to set the aspect ratio from 16:9 to 4:3. Worked like a charm. Yet my 40 inch Samsung LCD hates it.

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I found it tends to be the cheap TV's that work best and the bigger brands that hate them. But i do have an old Sony CRT that I use as well.

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I found out at the weekend that you can connect an Amiga up to a PC monitor via a Freeview box.  I think it was only composite input though.

Interesting because my friend has an LG freeview/DVD recorder that connects via HDMI. He is an Amiga fan too and has his 1200 connected through his freeview/dvd recorder to the TV. He seems to have got a nice clear picture out of it using this setup on bigger TV's. The only thing I can think of is that the tech inside the box to upscale the image from DVD is helping to clean the image from the Amiga.

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You could always take your amiga into a TV shop and ask them if you can plug it in lol. I did that with an MP3 player when I was looking for a Stereo/dock in Curries once. It annoyed the hell out of them but it meant I got what I considered to be the best system. And at the end of the day if you spend money with them they will soon stop been annoyed.

This was also highly entertaining when I walked into my local Maplin store brandishing a NES, a screwdriver and trying to figure out which resistors I needed to replace. Luckily the lady behind the counter was into retro gaming and she helped me no end. The manager however kept giving me dodgy looks. But I spent best part of £100 on bits, a soldering iron, testing meter and some other bits.