I'm sure you've heard the Commodore 1702, or the Commodore 1084. Commodore is very well known for making some of the highest quality monitors, especially for the time. We're talking about the 80's! And out of the many different monitors they released, I think many people would say that the 1950 is the best Commodore monitor of them all!
Why's that!? Well we're talking about a super high quality, .31 dot pitch monitor, the equivalent to about 600 tvl in a 13" size. But not only does it use very high quality tube, this monitor has a scan range of 15khz to 37khz. That means that you can send 240p content to this, as well as 480p, and it will handle it just fine! That's extremely rare for a monitor. And would you know what? Commodore actually made a couple other multiformat monitors, but this is the only one that supports H/V sync, as well as composite sync. That just makes its a heck of a lot more user friendly when trying to connect to many different sources.
I did open this up and inspect it thoroughly. I did replace/upgrade a few capacitors that are recommended to replace on the neckboard as well.
One thing to note is these 1950's don't quite fill the entire screen horizontally when in 240p. It's not a problem, it's just the way they were made. There is a horizontal width adjustment coil inside, and I adjusted it all the way, to make it fill the screen as much as possible. When in 480p mode, it fills the entire screen. You have a large range of adjustment vertically, so getting the correct aspect ratio is easy with a turn of the pot.
Check out the photos. The Soul Calibur, and Mario Sunshine photos are all in 480p while the other photos are in 240p. It's just an incredible monitor, and it's so cool to see one working perfectly out here.
