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Offline Franko

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Re: Amiga Friendly Monitor in the USA???
« on: August 17, 2010, 04:59:37 AM »
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Tread very lightly when looking for an Amiga monitor. I've been burned with at least one monitor that was supposed to sync down to 15 khz and it didn't it's rally trial and error. It blows my mind that in europe folks can go to the local retailer and you get a scart enabled tv.. Problem solved.

Youd think an A600 would be a nice little machine to take to a big retailer and see if they'll let you connect the machine to the various tv's. I tried it once and they told me no way and laughed out loud once they saw the commodore logo and the Amiga logo. Yet at another store they were cool with the MiniMIG as I told them it was an ARCADE machine prototype..


It may be great to walk into any store here in the UK and buy a scart enabled TV or monitor, but have you seen the motion blur on even the latest and supposedly high spec LCD & Plasma sets. Until they finally fix out this problem I'm sticking with my old Microvitec and Commodore monitors.

I too took along an A1200 to one of the big TV retail stores a couple of years ago, and was told in no uncertain terms that they would not allow me to connect an ancient kid's toy to any of their sets as there was no way of telling what damage it might do... :rolleyes:
 

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Re: Amiga Friendly Monitor in the USA???
« Reply #1 on: August 17, 2010, 05:30:07 AM »
I still use a Commodore 1940 in my kitchen and a Microvitec for my main Amiga setup, for the simple reasons that the picture quality on them is far better than any similar sized LCD or Plasma, no motion blurring, deep blacks, far superior contrast and with the aid of a couple of little boxes I built I can transmit and view my Sky Satellite TV progs on them. :)