I used my A1000 on a TV using the modulator port, only because I had to.
I found a dealer selling 1084's refurbished for $189 in the USA and I jumped on it. I wanted a VGA option back then only the A3000, or A2000 with the flicker Fixer or ICD flicker free video card for the A500 were options.
I instead got the A1300 genlock. With full motion video as a backround on the WB the flcker diminished some. I used to feed my cable box to the vcr then feed the amiga genlock.
Great when I wanted to title videos.
If you were doing serious productivity stuff you longed for VGA. At school every mac, every Pc used a VGA or MAC RGB (multiscan) monitor.
Most Amiga users I knew had a 1084 montior.
In one retail display I saw 2 kids playing with an A4000 in deluxe paint. They really liked it (as the PC and mac didn't have an animation application on display) but they kept asking "Damn...but what's with that flicker?".
This was the reaction from most folks regarding Amiga hires screens. PC and MACs had no such quirks. In educational cirlces the uninformed actually refered to the Amiga as "outdated" due to it being tied so heavily to the NTSC video system instead of using higher quality signals such as VGA. I often think this was partly Apples great educational Marketing working their magic reality distortion tricks on non technical art educators of the time...
Yet it's ironic to note that my school paid good money for VIDEO digitizer boards for the Mac that ONLY worked in black and white. A totally OUTDATED experience, Unreal...
The boards were outdated when they got em, and one dude in a lab told me that he did assignments in color on his A500 with a Digiview. The instructor MADE him re-do it on a MAC, in black and white.
Definatley not fun being an Amiga user back then in Art Educational circles in NYC...lol.
