Has anyone any monitor recommendations?

[Gareth_O'Flaherty]

I'm currently running my Dragon 32 through my widescreen tv, but I'd rather have a more permanent set-up using a smaller computer monitor.
Can anyone recommend a computer monitor that works well with the Dragon 32? Links to examples on eBay would be great (if that's ok with the admins, of course).
Cheers,
Gareth.

[robcfg]

Monitor?

Any TV with composite video connector will do. I use a 25+ years old 14" Sony Trinitron tv set, and it looks wonderful!

[sixxie]

I can definitely vouch for the fact that some monitors with composite video fail horribly. I have an HP L2335 (with the old firmware, so it doesn't scale analogue inputs properly either), and the not-quite-PAL signal from a Dragon causes it to jump up and down unwatchably.

It's fine with the input from the (Australian) CoCo 3, oddly enough.

[Alastair]

I don't know what the situation in Ireland is with regard to switching off the analogue TV signal, but if it is like the UK and analogue has been switched off then there should be plenty of analogue-only TV's available that are no longer in use. Just ask friends, family, neighbours, work colleagues, etc. if they have any they wish to get rid of.

[tjewell]

I use one of these - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AV-to-VGA-Con ... 1303690674 - a little composite to VGA convertor, as I've got lots of VGA flatscreen monitors kicking around. The quality is acceptable - there's probably only so much I can do given the Dragon's output.

[Gareth_O'Flaherty]

I use one of these - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AV-to-VGA-Con ... 1303690674 - a little composite to VGA convertor, as I've got lots of VGA flatscreen monitors kicking around. The quality is acceptable - there's probably only so much I can do given the Dragon's output.

Thanks for the link tjewell, that looks ideal.

[sixxie]

Just an observation: none of the output rates of that device are 50Hz, so you can probably expect some judder.

[tjewell]

I guess this would be the 'Rolls Royce' solution then, as it can handle both 50hz and 60hz:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/StarTech-com- ... 0841048121

Tony

[geirhovland]

See also this discussion: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=518