Amiga to pc monitor

[Sutty100]

I have just moved house and now on my desk there simply isn't space for the TV I was using for my Amiga monitor and my PC's monitor. Sadly other people in the house wouldn't be to happy if I just kept the Amiga's monitor! As far I can work out I will have to shell out £130 for a flicker fixer :-( just wanted to check before I did this that there are not any cheaper options! Would buying some sort of TV card for the pc and feeding the Amiga signal into the pc somehow converting it and then outputting on the monitor be an option? Or are there any decent flat screen PC monitors for sale that support the Amigas output?

[utri007]

Why not buy second hand 17"-21" analogic LCD-TV? Most of them have VGA in and SCART, so you could connect both of them to it?

I have Samsung 19" and I'm very pleased to it. Belive me, it is better solution than TV-card. I used to use Hauppauge 848 tv-tuner to display Amiga pictur to PC screen, but picture is not good quality. With that way you can only use composite input.

[orange]

yeah, LCD TV is a good solution.
TV card would also work, but there is some lag and other problems.

you didn't say which Amiga, is it ECS or AGA?

iirc, there are some cheaper solutions for ECS. keep checking amibay/ebay

[CritAnime]

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.

[Sutty100]

Its AGA and yeah I have tried it on a few TV's and some seem to display it really well and others not so great funnily enough an LG had a brilliant display with mine but a cheap Neon was quite poor! Might look at getting a TV\monitor I just worry the monitor side of a TV wont be as good as my current PC monitor, will have to look into it.

[CritAnime]

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.

[Mrs Beanbag]

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.

[CritAnime]

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.

[bbond007]

I have just moved house and now on my desk there simply isn't space for the TV I was using for my Amiga monitor and my PC's monitor. Sadly other people in the house wouldn't be to happy if I just kept the Amiga's monitor! As far I can work out I will have to shell out £130 for a flicker fixer :-( just wanted to check before I did this that there are not any cheaper options! Would buying some sort of TV card for the pc and feeding the Amiga signal into the pc somehow converting it and then outputting on the monitor be an option? Or are there any decent flat screen PC monitors for sale that support the Amigas output?

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=58860&highlight=dell+2320

very happy with my dell 2320.

[Mrs Beanbag]

I use mine with an ACER AL1932M which has a SCART input.  It was quite expensive when I got it but cheaper than a monitor and a scan doubler.  Works fine with PAL although the picture is a bit high up.  Slightly disappointing backlight.  It can switch between inputs so it's also my PC's second monitor as well.

[CritAnime]

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.

[namor4]

Hi, I have picked up for free, a 29 inch NEC XP29 plus multisync monitor, all I needed was a Amiga Monitor Cable, Amiga RGB (23-pin f.) to VGA 15-pin f, so I order one from Vesalia Computer out of Germany. While I was waiting for the cable I noticed on Ebay, a scan doubler, Inline IN1424, I bought it for $9.99 plus S/H, it will double the resolution of composite video, so I used the Amiga 520 adapter with the scan doubler, what a beautiful picture, I could not believe my eyes. Finally my VGA cable came in, I disconnected the Amiga adapter and scan doubler then connected the Amiga/VGA cable, what a disappointment, yes it worked, but the picture was no where as good, so I reconnected the Amiga 520 and the Inline scan doubler, and playing games was a real treat, just as good as the arcade. Remember, Jesus saves! John 3:16