Scandoublers and Playstation2?

[Jope]

Get an X-RGB2, highly recommended. All you need is a converter to convert Japanese scart to European scart and then you're set.

http://www.lik-sang.com/info.php?category=219&products_id=2875&

[Rod_cl]

Nice toy but too expensive.
Any other ideas?
Saludos

Rod

[Tempest]

@Rod
Maybe this Magic VGA Box is something for you. You can read an Amiga related review  here. In this review an A600 and A1200 where connected with the composite port and the screenshots look ok.

[Managarm]

I bought one of those off Ebay the last week (it's coming from Canada so it could take a while.) When it arrives I'll post what it's like on here. In fact it was this thread that gave me the idea to do it.

[Managarm]

The box arrived yesterday which was pretty quick considering it was coming from Canada. It's really easy to set up and you can have a PC plugged into it as well and then run two machines from the same monitor. The quality is quite good once you've messed around with the onscreen menu. The only problem with it is higher resolution Workbench modes. Interlace still flickers. Having said that it's a million times better than the crappy 14" TV I've been using until now. Also if you get one you may be tempted to mess about with screenmodes such as Doublepal and Multiscan. This is of course wrong and will lead to loading Workbench off a floppy to fix as the screen goes blue when loading from HD. (It's actually the same shade as the Windows blue screen of death.) All in all worth the money but it's not a flickerfixer.

P.S Does anyone know what the mode VGA Only does?

[Will-i-am]

This thread got me started googling for similar items and came up with this. Is it anything close to what I could use to get my A4000 to display on an HDTV ready TV? Sure would be neat, if a tad pricey.
http://www.tvone.com/1t-v1280pchd-dvi.shtml

[Managarm]

With regards to my last post on the Magic VGA box, I kind of stand corrected. I selected NTSC:high res laced and rebooted. When Workbench reloaded it was flicker free... but sadly in black and white. I tried changing the mode to NTSC using the early startup control but it didn't work. So if there's a way to get the NTSC mode in colout this is a fairly decent SD/FF.

[x56h34]

That's because your Amiga is still a PAL Amiga. Changing to NTSC through early-boot-menu is a way of making your PAL amiga run still in PAL, but not @ 50hz anymore but 60hz. You are running the so called PAL60.

The same thing would happen to an NTSC A1200 that tries to switch to PAL mode from early-boot-menu, except it would work in NTSC50 mode.

The PAL/NTSC multi-standard of Amiga computers is a very relative term. Deep down they are locked to either NTSC or PAL. Amigas with TV tuners such as A600 and A1200 take this to another level where the TV tuner itself is also either PAL or NTSC specific.

[Managarm]

Thanks for the info. That's a shame as interlace looked really good in NTSC mode. Anyone who's got an NTSC Amiga and needs a cheap scandoubler, this is definitely worth a look.

[Will-i-am]

Here's a very interesting little box I found, check it out:
http://www.goldenshop.com.hk/AI-trad/Misc_htm/m_comavvga.htm
It sure looks like it ought to work. What am I missing? For $50 plus or minus I'm thinking hooray.... am I right?

[Will-i-am]

and here's another interesting place I found. You electro-hackers might like this:
http://www.tkk.fi/Misc/Electronics/circuits/vga2rgbs.html