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From: commike@sunybcs.cs.Buffalo.EDU (Alan Commike)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Specs for 1080 monitors?
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Date: 9 May 90 17:37:25 GMT
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In article <11456@cbmvax.commodore.com> grr@cbmvax (George Robbins) writes:
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>Huh?  Interlace does work on all the Commodore PAL/NTSC Amiga monitors, if not,
>the monitor is probably broken and needs a visit to a service center.
>

Well that's not entirely true. There are a bunch of older 108[0|4](S) monitors
that display interlace as a kind of "double-interlace". Instead of interleaving
the 2 frames, they are displayed on top of each other. This has the nasty
effect of leaving whole scan lines blank where the second frame should
be. 

There are two dealers in my area. One never heard of the problem, and 
would charge me a bench charge to bring in the monitor so they could look
at it! The other dealer knows about the problem, and he even has one of
the monitors that has this problem in his store. He says he has tried
to find why this happens a few times, and can't seem to find a thing
wrong with the monitor. There is also a television repair shop that
replaced my fly-back transformer when it blew (got it done in a week, as
opposed to 6 weeks the authorized Commodore repair center would have
taken), he looked it over and couldn't see anyting wrong.

Many people have reported this, but noone has been able to fix it. Some
are worse than others. Many people say once the monitor is fine until
it heats up, others only have this problem occasionally, and we'll mine
just seems to be stuck in double-interlace forever...

	...alan

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