18 Jul
2010
18 Jul
'10
8:43 p.m.
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
I keep forgetting about these. They do work. But I know some people
dislike the look of LCDs, prefering tubes instead. CRTs are obviously
much better at displaying a variety of resolutions, whereas LCDs tend
to like their native resolution. At the lower resolutions of
ntsc/pal, any high resolution LCD is likely to look good anyway.
The indivision VGA adapter for amigas has a mode that puts the black
horizontal scan lines back into the LCD display for that vintage look.
I wouldn't go that far though.
brian
I much agree.
?A few monitors out there support scan rates down to
15khz. ?These work on amigas and are highly sought after. ?The NEC 3D
was an example iirc. ?So check the specs before you trash them.
FWIW, a lot of current UK LCD (and I assume plasma) TVs have RGB inputs
at TV rates (15.625kHz horizonatal in the UK) onthe SCART socket. I
assume those will work with older computers expecting a TV-rate monitor,
although how good the quality would be I don't know.