Cheap Amiga-compatible LCD Monitor/TV in Australia

[Cammy]

Hello fellow Australians, if any of you are on the look out for a new LCD monitor for your Amiga, there may be a very suitable one coming out at Aldi next week (Monday 21st). I'm hoping that it's one of the models with a built-in flicker fixer, so it would be perfect to use with an RGB-S-Video adapter from AmigaManiac, or even better for Indivisions using HighGFX because it will hopefully show a 1024x768 screen without stretching it, provided you can switch it between 4x3 and 16x9. The native resolution is 1366x768, and it's a widescreen monitor.

I know a lot depends on how it turns out, but Aldi have a good refund policy so if it's no good you can take it back. It's just that every time they have a special this good, they sell out early on the day the sale starts.

Anyway, the monitors are 15.6" black, white or pink HD LCD TVs with built-in HD tuner, S-Video, VGA, HDMI, Component and AV inputs, they have a great energy rating, and they're only $199.

Here's more info if you wanna check them out, I'm planning on getting one so I can give back the monitor I've been borrowing for nearly a year. Thanks Gran for the Christmas money

http://www.aldi.com.au/au/html/offers/58_11302.htm

[RedskullDC]

Hi Cammy,

Thanks for the tip!
Can't go wrong at that price.

Cheers,
Red

[Rebel-CD32]

I'll be camping outside Aldi like it's a Star Wars premiere to get one of these at that price. I hope it works well with my HighGFX Workbench.

[mingle]

Hi,

Sounds good, but I'm guessing it won't sync down to 15Khz to display native Amiga resolutions?

Cheers,

Mike.

[Rebel-CD32]

I'm pretty sure it will, since it displays PAL video fine. If they do go on sale tomorrow (it appears to be the 26th they come out now) I'll report back on their compatibility.

[mingle]

Cool...

Obviously it'll be able to display the Amiga's composite output fine, but I'm interested to see if the 15-pin VGA connector can handle the Amiga's analogue RGB output - I'd be very surprised if it did - but also very happy! :-)

Cheers,

Mike.

[Rebel-CD32]

If I can find the appropriate cable, I'll try some VGA/Multiscan modes through it too. Since these things usually fix the flicker, running in Pal High Res Interlace through S-Video gives it a pretty nice display on the LCD, but because the resolution isn't native there'll always be pixel stretching and interpolation, just as there would be if you tried to run 640x480 or 800x600 through it.

[Rebel-CD32]

Damn, it looks like they're definitely not out until the 26th. Aldi opens at 8am on Saturdays, so if anyone wants one it'd be a good idea to be waiting there when the doors open.

[gertsy]

Damn, it looks like they're definitely not out until the 26th. Aldi opens at 8am on Saturdays, so if anyone wants one it'd be a good idea to be waiting there when the doors open.

Keep us up-to-date with that 15k VGA input...

cheers

Gertsy

[Cammy]

DON'T GET ONE!!!

They can pick up PAL and NTSC modes and they display nicely with no flicker in interlace, but every five seconds the whole screen shudders! I think it's a problem with the built-in flicker fixer, but it happens on both the TVs I tested.

It also can not pick up the Indivision's HighGFX mode so they're pretty much completely useless as an Amiga monitor.

Sorry everyone.


Okay, I have found out since that they aren't so bad afterall! They DO pick up HighGFX, but onlky when the Indivision is set in 1.25 mode, which means all your games will look bad through the Indivision, but Workbench will be okay. Composite works fine, and S-Video from a CD32 works fine too. It's only the output from the V1.0 RGB S-Video adapters that causes the screen to jump every five seconds or so.

[Fingers]

Sorry to hear that Cammy

Here is another option:
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/DELL-ULTRA-SHARP-2007FP-20-LCD-Screen-CHEAP-GX520_W0QQitemZ300380175515QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAU_comp_monitor?hash=item45f00dbc9b

I've purchased one & will report back after arrival/testing.

PZ.

[CLS2086]

Normaly, you can find in Australia the same monitors than those sold in England or in Europe ?

[Fingers]

Normaly, you can find in Australia the same monitors than those sold in England or in Europe ?

If you are inferring the possibility of purchasing one with SCART input, then no...I managed to find one after a LONG search (it never worked with Amiga either), but SCART is quite uncommon here

PZ.

[Rebel-CD32]

These monitors are perfect for CD32s, and not too bad for Indivision users.

I took a photo of the monitor running in HighGFX 1024x768 mode, in 4:3 (hence the black borders). The display is nice and crisp, it has the right amount of lines but there's still a small amount of interpolation horizontally, but nowhere near as bad as it was on a 1280x1024 monitor.

I picked out a faulty one, and didn't have time to take it back and exchange it before they were all sold out. It has a glowing spot on it, not like a dead pixel (which the one I got before this had, which I took back only to get this worse one). You can see the glowy spot down towards the bottom of the screen in the task bar area under EaglePlayer. Please excuse my GUI theme, it's a bit mixed up at the moment while I experiment with a few things.

[countzero]

@REBELCD32

LOL @ the backdrop me want too !