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Has anyone any monitor recommendations?
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 10:19 am
by 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.
Re: Has anyone any monitor recommendations?
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 12:03 pm
by 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!
Re: Has anyone any monitor recommendations?
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 12:15 pm
by 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.
Re: Has anyone any monitor recommendations?
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2014 12:18 am
by 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.
Re: Has anyone any monitor recommendations?
Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 12:03 pm
by 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.
Re: Has anyone any monitor recommendations?
Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 10:33 am
by Gareth_O'Flaherty
tjewell wrote: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.
Re: Has anyone any monitor recommendations?
Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 10:42 am
by sixxie
Just an observation: none of the output rates of that device are 50Hz, so you can probably expect some judder.
Re: Has anyone any monitor recommendations?
Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 12:53 am
by 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
Re: Has anyone any monitor recommendations?
Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 2:23 pm
by geirhovland
See also this discussion:
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=518