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An LCD-TV question
« on: January 11, 2008, 01:37:31 PM »
Seems to be a lot of LCD-TV and scandoubler related questions going on these days. Nevertheless, I have another one.

So I'm extremely tempted to grab a Samsung SyncMaster 741MP, which is a 17" monitor with TV-tuner and SCART connector. But I'm getting a little confused when looking at its specs. It's reported at 56-75 Hz vertical sync. Now, since I'm living in a PAL country, I'm a little surprised it doesn't go down to 50Hz? Do these monitors/TV's do some sort of upsampling?
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Re: An LCD-TV question
« Reply #1 on: January 11, 2008, 01:40:23 PM »
The rated vertical sync is for the VGA input and has nothing to do with the rca/s-video inputs.
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Re: An LCD-TV question
« Reply #2 on: January 11, 2008, 01:51:02 PM »
Looks like a reasonable choice for an Amiga screen. Presuming that's 1280X1024 @ 75Hz for the VGA it should serve you well.
I agree with the above also, the quoted V Sync will only refer to the VGA, your SCART input will work fine. :-D
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Re: An LCD-TV question
« Reply #3 on: January 11, 2008, 01:59:10 PM »
@both

Thanks both of you. I expected as much, but I just hate wasting money on something that doesn't end up doing what I expected.

Yeah, I think that monitor will be nice for an Amiga. If I get some graphics card in the future, it'll act as a monitor switcher as well.
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Re: An LCD-TV question
« Reply #4 on: January 11, 2008, 02:03:54 PM »
Us PAL users are lucky to have the SCART connector, the fellow Amigans with NTSC don't have that (they use BNC connectors I believe, and the signal is incompatible with RGB)
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Re: An LCD-TV question
« Reply #5 on: January 11, 2008, 02:14:59 PM »
Never
The
Same
Colour


.....that's what we called NTSC when I worked in video...'nuff said.  :lol:
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Re: An LCD-TV question
« Reply #6 on: January 11, 2008, 02:20:59 PM »
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Tripitaka wrote:
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.....that's what we called NTSC when I worked in video...'nuff said.  :lol:


 :-D I still call it that  :lol:

Hmm, more and more I get the urge to buy an Amiga, but in the Netherlands, good ones are rare and expensive. And don't even think of big box Amiga's  :cry:
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Re: An LCD-TV question
« Reply #7 on: January 11, 2008, 02:34:34 PM »
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Hmm, more and more I get the urge to buy an Amiga, but in the Netherlands, good ones are rare and expensive. And don't even think of big box Amiga's.

AmigaKit has a good stock of A1200's, and at a decent price I think. Of course you'd still have to shell out for an accelerator card if you want that, and that may very well cost as much as the A1200. Or more.
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Re: An LCD-TV question
« Reply #8 on: January 11, 2008, 02:46:10 PM »
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Caius wrote:

AmigaKit has a good stock of A1200's, and at a decent price I think. ...


I'm afraid the shipping costs are going to be steep, if I make a rough estimation I'll end up paying around €450/340GBP/$665 and that's way too expensive.
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Re: An LCD-TV question
« Reply #9 on: January 11, 2008, 02:46:56 PM »
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Tripitaka wrote:
Never
The
Same
Colour


.....that's what we called NTSC when I worked in video...'nuff said.  :lol:


And for our friends in France:

System
Essentially
Contrary to the
American
Method

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Re: An LCD-TV question
« Reply #10 on: January 11, 2008, 03:57:37 PM »
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[...] if I make a rough estimation I'll end up paying around €450/340GBP/$665 and that's way too expensive.

I paid ~£143 incl. shipping for A1200 + 40GB HD + PCMCIA Ethernet card. Did your estimate include tower, mediator, etc?

No matter. It's off-topic really.
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Re: An LCD-TV question
« Reply #11 on: January 11, 2008, 04:21:58 PM »
Nope, A1200 build to order w/ new old stock A1200, os3.9, harddrive etc.

But you are right, way offtopic.
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Re: An LCD-TV question
« Reply #12 on: January 11, 2008, 04:30:26 PM »
Hi Caius

I have two Syncmaster 741MP's(741MPi?) ;)) on my desk, the main one is running off the Cybervision643D in my A1200 @ 1280x1024.  The other I use as a video monitor for my vlab, as a tv and eventually it will be used as a monitor for my other A1200 or the A4000.  I use the "main" 741MP with the TV out of the A1200 and the s-video with my CD32 as well.

Very happy with the set up :D


Jason
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Re: An LCD-TV question
« Reply #13 on: January 11, 2008, 05:13:10 PM »
Good to hear you're happy with it Pertinax, since it's the cheapest Monitor/TV solution I've found. At least where I live.
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Re: An LCD-TV question
« Reply #14 on: January 11, 2008, 06:21:28 PM »
Shipping costs to the Netherlands are not expensive- we can provide shipping at a rate of EUR 18 for upto 10 Kilos
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