LCD TVs with built in flicker fixer

[geminister]

My mate and I made a very pleasant discovery today. We were testing several options to get a nice signal from a Amiga, and by chance happened to try the scart input of a LG M2762D LCD TV with the high res laced screen mode from the Amiga. To our surprise, there was no flicker and the picture was gorgeous. So we went forward and tried super high res laced, again it worked like a charm.

As the TV is discontinued, I phoned the LG support and asked if they had any current models with this functionality and they said that all their TVs do. I'm going to research this a bit more, but I thought I'd give a heads up about it. Will let you know if I find any current models that are confirmed to fix the flicker.

Maybe we've finally found a good modern option for Amiga monitor needs?

 

[fitzsteve]

Indeed many lcd tv do this, hence why we say to people try rgb start before you spend big money on a flicker fixer

Enjoy
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[Uncle_Meat]

Yup! I've got a Tesco 32" LCD (Technika, I think their brand is) which works an absolute treat via SCART on my A1200.

I also noticed this on an older Toshiba 32" as well, and I seem to remember the effect was down to one of the options in the menu, that being MPEG "smoothing" I think it was. With this off there was a slight flicker, but not as much as a CRT, set to high it was less sharp but absolutely stable.

There's no option for this on my Tesco telly, or I've just not found it yet, but whatever it is set to as default is certainly a decent compromise.

The only downside is that 32" is a bit too big for just faffing about. I'm picking up a cheapy 19" LED telly for someone next week, so going to try it on my Miggy before I hand it over.

 

[Retrograde]

Well all modern LCDs and plasmas are by nature progressive, so they always de-interlace any PAL/NTSC source. In my experience the quality can vary somewhat though.

 

[carvedeye]

Yup! I've got a Tesco 32" LCD (Technika, I think their brand is) which works an absolute treat via SCART on my A1200.

I also noticed this on an older Toshiba 32" as well, and I seem to remember the effect was down to one of the options in the menu, that being MPEG "smoothing" I think it was. With this off there was a slight flicker, but not as much as a CRT, set to high it was less sharp but absolutely stable.

There's no option for this on my Tesco telly, or I've just not found it yet, but whatever it is set to as default is certainly a decent compromise.

The only downside is that 32" is a bit too big for just faffing about. I'm picking up a cheapy 19" LED telly for someone next week, so going to try it on my Miggy before I hand it over.

I work at Tesco as a tech advisor, and technika as a brand is the 4th most popular brand in europe the reason for this is because the parts are branded like the lcd screen is actually a samsung screen, the rest of the parts are toshiba the only thing they lack is a decent engine and high contrast other than that they are great tv's

 

[Uncle_Meat]

I work at Tesco as a tech advisor, and technika as a brand is the 4th most popular brand in europe the reason for this is because the parts are branded like the lcd screen is actually a samsung screen, the rest of the parts are toshiba the only thing they lack is a decent engine and high contrast other than that they are great tv's

I must admit I'm quite impressed with this Technika one. I had looked at various other "budget" tellies and always found them to be a bit crap to be honest, slow clumsy menus, washed out colours and so on, but saw this Technika setup in store, compared the picture quality to the more expensive ones they had around it and could see little, if any, difference. Handed over my £165 I think it was and jobs a goodun.

*edit* And as an extra bonus, the analogue RF stage does a good job of tuning in my Dragon 32 and Acorn Electrons too.

 

[thgill]

I need to import me one of these UK LCD tvs.

Need something around 20 inches or so with Scart and VGA inputs that does smooth 50 hz scrolling and does a nice job at high res laced.

Suggestions?

 

[sneeker]

MY Old 17" samsung that was silver and had the speaker under the screen didnt flickerfix interlace modes, but my newish 22" led samsung flickerfixes all the interlaced modes I've tried, Pal high res laced is perfect, superhighres laced is also flickerfree but I sometimes get a few artifacts on the title bar in workbench.

 

[radcountrebel]

My LG 50" Plasma does the same thing last time I was able to try on an Amiga.
Another bonus of this TV is that older consoles and computers display quite nicely on it with a little adjustment in the menus. They don't have that hard edge on sprites that some HDTVs produce and no obvious colour bleed, blurring or input lag. They still don't look as good as on my CRT, but for a modern TV I was very pleasantly surprised.
The choice of ports on the back is a bonus too. There are 4x HDMI, 2x SCART (1 RGB), a set of composite ports, an S-Video port, a set of component ports, RF socket and even a VGA port (plan to hook the Dreamcast into that eventually).

Always nice when your modern 'main' TV plays nice with your old gear

 

[Nobby_UK]

Sharp LC40F22E = Lovely