what Road?????

[cgutjahr]

So which road should I take?

1) stick with buying a mediator

2) buy a bvison card

You'll have to decide that on your own ;-)

A mediator has three advantages over the BVision:

1. you can use a standard sound card with it
2. you can use a tv card with it
3. it's slightly faster/better for 3D games

If you need a sound card (and don't have one connected to the clockport already), get the Mediator.

If you need a tv card, get a Mediator.

If you're really into 3D gaming, get a Mediator.

Otherwise, get a BVision, it's a whole lot cheaper (eBay)  and you don't need special cases.

Im also wanting to buy a scan doubler/ff will I need an internal or external version to be used with a graphics card.

Neither the BVision nor a PCI gfx card plugged into a Mediator support this (only some older, Amiga specific gfx card do). You will always have to use two monitors, unless you are willing to buy a tv card and connect the Amiga's native display to the tv card.

[cgutjahr]

Lemmink wrote:
That`s not entirely right. though the BVision has no port for looping back the 15KHz RGB out is can make use of the "softwarescandoubler" that is build in the later version of the BlizzardPPC flashroms. This optin is only meant as an emergency measure but it works fine with the bootmenu and the Workbench, as long as you don`t open a graphicscardscreen. I`m not sure about gamecomaptibility.

It only works until a new screen (other than Workbench) gets opened and it certainly will not work with games banging the hardware.

It's perfect if you don't want to run hardware banging games or applications though - I don't, so I don't need to have a PAL monitor connected to my main Amiga anymore.

The other way would be an external Videoswitcher, preferably an electronic one for quality reasons, but that would cost about 50 EUR.

Right, I forgot that option. In this case, it wouldn't matter if he uses an internal or external scan doubler.