New Amiga monitor

[sturulez]

The Benq BL702A LED monitor cost only about 81BP (113 Euro) by Amazon UK.
Maybe he can afford it!  

Ive seen the LED monitors on Amazon and looks a pretty decent price to pay for replacement. I have seen someone selling a Philips CM8833 colour monitor for under 100BP. Which I think is a quite good.

Would anyone else in my position go for a philips CRT over a LED monitor?

[danwood]

This guy says to go with a CRT for Amiga gaming.  His
YouTube vid might be worth a watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3SZkjF1RDI

(problems may or may not be specific to his own setup)

Yeah that's my video.  Not sure if I mentioned it, but the Samsung wasn't the first display I tried either.

I had a 15" ALBA LCD before it, being a cheap display, as you can imagine it looked crap, it didn't even flicker fix interlace modes.

I replaced that with a 19" 4:3 Sony, but never liked the way it looked, I then tried that 22" Samsung, and again was just never satisfied.  

Amigas (especially games) just do not look "right" on LCD screens imho.

Now I have my Amiga 4000 hooked up to a 19" Mitsubishi Diamondtron via Picasso IV and my A600/CD32 is on the Philips CM8833-II.  Both look streets ahead of any LCD I've tried for the Amiga.

[orb85750]

Hello

I am looking at replacing my commodore 1084s monitor as it has appeared to of died.

Thanks

Maybe a fuse was blown and the picture tube is still perfectly fine?
Do you get any power at all, or completely dead?
Of couse, fuses usually blow for a reason (like something went wrong
with the monitor's power supply) but that's more promising to fix
than the tube.

[sturulez]

Maybe a fuse was blown and the picture tube is still perfectly fine?
Do you get any power at all, or completely dead?
Of couse, fuses usually blow for a reason (like something went wrong
with the monitor's power supply) but that's more promising to fix
than the tube.

When I turn the monitor on the red power LED comes on. Sound works fine when trying to to load a game from floppy disk. There is no image on the screen. I have also touched the screen after turning it on and off a few times, and found no static on the screen.

[broken]

For anyone with the Benq BL702A, how does it handle the 4x3 picture from the Amiga?

I know this is a 5x4 monitor and wondering if it displays 4x3 content correctly or if it slightly stretches it to 5x4.

I have a newer'ish Dell 5x4 that stretches 4x3 content with no ability to override it.

[orb85750]

When I turn the monitor on the red power LED comes on. Sound works fine when trying to to load a game from floppy disk. There is no image on the screen. I have also touched the screen after turning it on and off a few times, and found no static on the screen.

I doubt it's the CRT itself, unless you were noticing some trouble with the picture before this happened.  However, when one of my 1084 monitors died, it was the power supply and I had no power whatsoever, a much different situation.

[som99]

Don't worry about the quality of playing games on the BenQ LED monitor (yes, it's a LED - NOT LCD!).

Uhm it is a LCD monitor, it's just backlit by LED but it's still a LCD monitor.
What you ment was that your LCD monitor is LED backlit instead of CCFL.

[AmiDude]

Uhm it is a LCD monitor, it's just backlit by LED but it's still a LCD monitor.
What you ment was that your LCD monitor is LED backlit instead of CCFL.

Of course, everybody knows that!

[AmiDude]

Yeah that's my video.  Not sure if I mentioned it, but the Samsung wasn't the first display I tried either.

I had a 15" ALBA LCD before it, being a cheap display, as you can imagine it looked crap, it didn't even flicker fix interlace modes.

I replaced that with a 19" 4:3 Sony, but never liked the way it looked, I then tried that 22" Samsung, and again was just never satisfied.  

Amigas (especially games) just do not look "right" on LCD screens imho.

Now I have my Amiga 4000 hooked up to a 19" Mitsubishi Diamondtron via Picasso IV and my A600/CD32 is on the Philips CM8833-II.  Both look streets ahead of any LCD I've tried for the Amiga.

Unfortunatly, you've picked the wrong monitors. The BenQ BL702A is a decent monitor for a reasonable price that outputs a crisp screen without any distortion or ghosting. Take a look at this thread:
http://www.amibay.com/showthread.php?72625-Amiga-VIDEO-VGA-(DSUB)-Adapter&highlight=benq

[sturulez]

Has anybody ever had a old amiga monitor repaired? If so is it a heafty price worth paying for?

The problem with my current commodore 1084s is.

The monitor powers up
Red LED comes on
Sound works okay
No picture just a blank screen.
No static appearing on screen.

[tonyvdb]

It's usually the fly back transformer that goes and "if" you can still get them for that model having someone fix it would cost roughly $200
On the 1960 monitors it was almost always a bad solder joint that fails on the back of the high voltage sender on the tube. That monitor suffered from really bad cold solders all over the circuit board.

[sturulez]

Thanks for everyones input. I managed to get the monitor fixed from a local TV repairman.

Turns out there was a cracked circuit board somewhere near the flyback transformer. Didnt cost too much to repair. Thought it would be worth it in the long run. Will consider connecting a LCD monitor and see what output I prefer. :-D

[RobertB]

Has anybody ever had a old amiga monitor repaired?

I've had many monitors repaired by Ray Carlsen, who charges reasonable prices.

Returned from Back in Time Live 2015 in Brighton, England,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
July 18-19 Commodore Vegas Expo v11 2015 -
http://www.portcommodore.com/commvex

[RobertB]

See the monitor discussion at

http://www.amibay.com/showthread.php?72457-BenQ-BL702A-perfect-monitor-for-amigas

and the related discussion at

http://www.amibay.com/showthread.php?72625-Amiga-VIDEO-VGA-(DSUB)-Adapter

Thinking of buying one of those monitors myself...

I finally bought the BenQ BL912, and I am very pleased that it can handle the usual Amiga screenmodes I use.

A wise buy,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm

[mechy]

It's usually the fly back transformer that goes and "if" you can still get them for that model having someone fix it would cost roughly $200
On the 1960 monitors it was almost always a bad solder joint that fails on the back of the high voltage sender on the tube. That monitor suffered from really bad cold solders all over the circuit board.

i have a 1960 i got from a guy who ran it so long the power transistor around the middle of the board literally burned a 1/4" hole thru the board, when i went to take the transistor out it crumbled to powder and all that was left were the leads.. i did fix the monitor however.  Turns out he was smacking the thing to make it work for years when all it would of took was resolder the transistor.