On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Mr Ian Primus <ian_primus at yahoo.com> wrote: I agree with this approach. :-) I never quite liked LCD displays. I mean, for a huge tv hanging on the wall, it's sort of nice. But I think they're too fragile. There's no way I would give an LCD to my farm-animal kids. It's also nice to take up less desk space. Most most of the time, size and weight only matter when I'm moving the monitor. And that's not very often. I think regular old monitors just produce a better image, especially when it's not at the LCD's native resolution. So I've been collecting large VGA monitors lately. I recently picked up a 21" mag in perfect condition for the right price (free). It hasn't even yellowed. These things uses to be ridiculously expensive. But everyone's gotta have a flat panel I guess. I lucked out when I bought a batch of amiga and video editing gear. The lot included a 20" studio monitor (JVC I think) that's bristling with connectors, knobs, and switches. I can select between all kinds of different video modes. I have it hooked up to an amiga 2000. There's a 23-pin to vga connector, which goes into a vga to component cable. Then I select sync on green and it works great. It of course works with composite video also, so I can hook it up to Apple 2es or c64s. And I haven't tried it, but I suspect it works with PAL also. It's a behemoth. But it's shaped like a cube instead of the usual goofy monitor shape. And it has handles. I'd like to find a few more. I'm thinking about upgrading the main monitor for my (microsoft/.net) development work machine at home. I'm planning to get an LCD tv instead of just a monitor. They appear to be a bit larger, and have hdmi, s-video, component, and composite inputs in addition to the vga and dvi connectors. That should allow some classic computer options as well since they'd have to sync way down to do ntsc. I'm not sure if that means they'd support an entire wide range of frequencies, or if there would be gaps. brian