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Conina on 30 May 2020
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Hynad said:
SvennoJ said:

Yep, monitors got heavy, 21" monitor wasn't fun to take anywhere. Those CRTs had great image quality though. The first LCD monitors were a step back in picture quality. No more distortion, yet also no more 'glowing' bright colors.

Starting from the 4th gen, all the way through the entirety of the PS2/Gamecube era, I used my family's old C64 monitor to play my games because the colors were just so much better than most anything else I could use. Some friends would come over and comment about that as well. Making me smile. That monitor was only 13 inches diagonally, but it was glorious. I would still game on it, for my retro stuff, if I didn't part ways with it a few years ago. :(

Yeah, I had to decide between a TV and a monitor, when I bought my C128 (hadn't money or space for both).

But the image quality of the composite signal (cinch) was soooo much crisper than the blurry TV-picture with RF-modulation.

So I bought a Commodore 1702 monitor and a small receiver box for TV-signals (on the top of the monitor in my old photo):

A few years later I bought a Amiga 500 and a Commodore 1084s monitor. It also had a crisp image quality and good stereo sound.