If you trust the postal services then go on with it, personally I shipped my old monitors to the local city dump and started connecting my Amiga's to TFT monitors using external scandoublers or using a video-to-scart cable and hook it to a TFT tv instead ...

Most tft monitors have el-cheapo scandoublers and therefore give an utterly rubbish picture on standard SCART RGB. Good scandoublers like the xRGB cost a LOT. A commodore monitor is "the real thing", and will always give you the right picture, as well as it's the cheapest solution.

DO NOT throw good Amiga gear away please!  Even CRTs.  Post an ad on CL or here to offer them cheap or FREE if you must.  

Yes they are worth it, some of us like to use the Amiga with it's original monitor.  Now if they do not work, that is another matter.

If you do ship them make sure and you pad the monitor on all sides, even the BOTTOM and TOP of the box.  Thay way if it gets dropped it will minimize the damage to the case.  I found old monitor boxes with the styrofoam works great for CRTs.

Commodore CRTs are still my favorite display for Amigas, even if they are small by modern standards. The picture quality is unbeatable.

Everyday I fight the urge to order a CRT from this page, I am afraid it won't work properly. One day I might just say "who cares" and buy one anyway, unless anyone wants to give it a shot and report back.

http://www.xgaming.com/store/category/arcade-parts-and-accessories/

Everyday I fight the urge to order a CRT from this page, I am afraid it won't work properly. One day I might just say "who cares" and buy one anyway, unless anyone wants to give it a shot and report back.

http://www.xgaming.com/store/category/arcade-parts-and-accessories/

Recently I was lucky enough to find 2 NOS Sony PVM-20M2U monitors for a reasonable shake. Had to make an Amiga -> BNC cable, but they are truly phenomenal. (15 kHz, 50/60 Hz no problem.) 20" is a bit large for sitting up close with low-res Amiga games, fortunately they have an underscan function which comes in handy.

The only problem with buying old, or even NOS CRTs - they are fragile as heck, and even in the factory boxes will often get jostled around enough during shipping to knock them way out of calibration. But if you go through the long process of dialing them in, there is nothing better (IMHO) for classic gaming. The smaller ones like the 1084 usually fare a lot better though than the 80lb beasts.

Personally I've re-imagined the past where monitors were always flat and light.

"I reject your reality and substitute my own!"

Doctor Who, the Deadly Assassin 1974

I wish I could find a monitor with perfect convergence, geometry, etc, but without the smearing, lag, and resolution scaling problems of flatscreens. I also can't handle any type of "scanrate conversion" that entirely molests the signal and produces b0rked scrolling. (Or the periodic mouse pointer hop and tearing artifacts in WB when the Amiga and scandoubler re-synch.) That said, I wouldn't even consider using a CRT with a modern computer. With the Amiga, I have yet to find a monitor that does everything perfect. The closest is probably a little 17" late-90's iiyama I have connected to a Picasso IV. It's simply fabulous.

I doubt you will have trouble selling them, as long the asking price isn't crazy.
I still use Commodore monitors (who ever made them),
I do NOT like flat screen monitors (LCD, etc.) on an Amiga. They look like crap (IMHO).
Good luck with your project.

Recently I was lucky enough to find 2 NOS Sony PVM-20M2U monitors for a reasonable shake. Had to make an Amiga -> BNC cable, but they are truly phenomenal. (15 kHz, 50/60 Hz no problem.) 20" is a bit large for sitting up close with low-res Amiga games, fortunately they have an underscan function which comes in handy.

The only problem with buying old, or even NOS CRTs - they are fragile as heck, and even in the factory boxes will often get jostled around enough during shipping to knock them way out of calibration. But if you go through the long process of dialing them in, there is nothing better (IMHO) for classic gaming. The smaller ones like the 1084 usually fare a lot better though than the 80lb beasts.

I agree totally that CRT's are better for gaming. Even at RCA cable output resolution my media centre computer ran modern games at on my 32" CRT TV looked better than the HDMI signal (colors were better and BRIGHTER on the CRT, though I can read text much better) I was actually kind of mad about it... but TV shows look much better.

I almost want to figure out a way to hook up a 21" CRT monitor I have to my old consoles as the LCD's make me angry.


Something I've noticed with the LCD's is that the pixels will distort and such during fast paced action. I suppose this is the unit stuttering and the LCD is showing the actual output as opposed to just bluring the pixels together like it would on a CRT. Though I am not 100% sure why this occurs.