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Originally Posted by Solderbro
Amiga RGB is that good, that converters and most RGB equipped flat TV's do work with the hires workbench modes. Even on a cheap Odys TV the highres interlaced workbench is pretty usable, the unthinkable from CRT become true.
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Yes, it's so good that hires is often usable even when converted to Composite. Here's a photo of my Workbench in 640x256 8 colors, connected via the A1200's composite output to my 32" LCD TV. This TV also produces a rock solid flicker-free display in PAL Hires Interlace, which makes IBrowse quite usable in Composite.
Modern TVs have advanced digital video processing which can make a
good composite signal look even better. This wasn't so when the Amiga was originally designed. Back then the video processing circuits in TVs were all analog, and most did a pretty poor job (particularly in NTSC, due to its lower bandwidth and lack of alternate line phase correction). Having both composite and RGB put the Amiga ahead of most home computers at the time,
and ahead of PCs which only had low color depth RGB outputs.
The Amiga also worked with a genlock to do video titling and picture in picture effects. That was a big deal back then because digital video processing was extremely expensive (the
Quantel Paintbox cost $150,000) and standard PCs couldn't do it. Was genlocking another feature that almost didn't make into the Amiga? People who focus on things the Amiga didn't get should be more appreciative of the things it
did get.