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A 286 machine with no sound card and needing a costly external monitor, while the Amiga could just be hooked up to a household TV (it's not like you could tell the difference in quality at VGA 320x200 resolution). That's hard to describe as a high-end or multimedia-capable PC. It seems that you're proving the point I made.
Did you get colour out of a TV on the A500? I know the original A1000 had amazing colour composite output, but I don't think the other models did.
European TVs had RGB inputs since seventies.