Posted By
MMS
on 2012-05-22
15:26:22
 |  Re: PAL/NTSC switch
Hi Richard,
If you look around a little, you may easily find LCD monitors with CVBS and SVideo inputs on the side.
In fact,in Hungary you can buy a used for 100 bucks with premium picture.
I am damn sure, that it is even cheaper abroad.
One personal hint from me, HP L2035, "Made in Hungary" version,
It is TFT (not fast TN or brilliant IPS, but super picture quality, good angle view and lot of inputs)
http://www.marseus.hu/index.php?page=products&id=267961
http://www.productreview.com.au/p/hp-l2035.html#details
http://reviews.cnet.com/lcd-monitors/hp-l2035/4505-3174_7-30632279.html
I am damn sure, that it is a good quality monitor, as we produced it in our factory for one year, and HP was very happy with our quality. I was the quality project leader of that product, let it to be released only with zero bugs in design (sent back to project team 3 times; I was really hated, haha)... My team had weekly reporting and alignment with HP USA team, every single defect is deply analysed and solved.
In fact, when monitor production stopped in our factory, HP requested to produce the complete model lifecycle volume instead of going back to China again, so in the last one month we produced only HP 20" premium monitors with the continuous supervision of HP residents, no claims at all.
I can say it is one of the best monitors ever made in the Hungarian Philips factory, and we produced millions to be exact. (in fact I do not work there since years, but very proud of results on HP monitors, like B&O, LOEWE products too  )
BTW: no dead pixels, even dead subpixels were taken out (HP guys were shocked to see what we rejected on the production lines, they could not find anything with those "bad" ones even with magnifier glass).
With this one you may get brilliant and big Plussy picture via CVBS, pivoting, and set anything you want.
Certainly an older one, and little slow for movies, or fast FPS gaming (it is TFT), but I use a similar 19" Philips one since 6 years, and still very happy with that.
Just to be sure, you get a "Made in Hungary" one, the "Made in China" ones were recalled from the market due to a potential electric shock issue. Certainly not the case with our ones, we had a very "picky" HV engineer.
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