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Amiga and LCD TVs/Monitors
« on: July 15, 2006, 10:39:57 AM »
Greetings all, my Commodore 1084s is currently rather sick (just makes a high pitched squeal with no picture) I'm hoping my local TV repair type store will be able to fix it.
Anyways this got me thinking about getting a more modern (mainly thinner) monitor, I've noticed a few LCD TVs nowadays come with RCA comp inputs and VGA inputs as well.
Anybody know if I were to plug my A1200 into one using the VGA port (and my adaptor of course) which if any screen modes would work?? :inquisitive:
I've heard that LCDs don't have sync rates as we know them (relative to CRTs) nor do they flicker. Is this true??
Would an LCD hooked up to an A1200 via VGA be able to run in poverty mode? (15khz game mode)?
Or would you need to use the VGA port for VGA modes (duh!) and the comp connections for 15khz??

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Re: Amiga and LCD TVs/Monitors
« Reply #1 on: July 15, 2006, 11:17:36 AM »
Well you can buy an Lcd TV monitor so with the Rca output of Amiga to TV you play Aga games  and everythink else l that need  15khz output and with dblpal etc video modes switch to monitor view at 30 khz , 50 hz and more .
Yes the lcd has better view and even with 50 HZ no flicker can be seen because of its construction  :-)
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Re: Amiga and LCD TVs/Monitors
« Reply #2 on: July 15, 2006, 11:30:48 AM »
Some LCD TV can accept the amiga RGB with the standard VGA adapter from commodore. Try to get one with Scart input (japanese or european import).
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Re: Amiga and LCD TVs/Monitors
« Reply #3 on: July 15, 2006, 07:41:40 PM »
I'm using an Acer 17" LCD with my Amiga 4000T.  Using a Cybervision 64/2MB card I'm running 1024x768 on it without problems (though the native resolution of the monitor is 1280x1024).  It doesn't have a problem with 15Khz when used with a SD/FF.
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Re: Amiga and LCD TVs/Monitors
« Reply #4 on: July 15, 2006, 09:05:47 PM »
cybervision and scandoubler completely changes whole situation   8-)
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Re: Amiga and LCD TVs/Monitors
« Reply #5 on: July 15, 2006, 09:31:17 PM »
Anyone using a widescreen one in a widescreen resolution?
 

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Re: Amiga and LCD TVs/Monitors
« Reply #6 on: July 16, 2006, 01:55:36 PM »
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cybervision and scandoubler completely changes whole situation   8-)


Sure does - I was trying to mention though that an LCD monitor will work if you have a flicker fixer handy just fine ;)  DBLNTSC also works fine as well though the blockiness of such a lowres makes it an ugly thing to look at.
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