Abstract: A monitor control circuit for driving a monitor, operating at a second pixel frequency, on the basis of a digital image signal having a first pixel frequency. The circuit has a first storage device, constructed as a first in-first out storage device, into which the image signal, having a frequency dependant on the first pixel frequency, can be read by means of a first control device. The circuit further has a video storage device in effective connection with the output of the first storage device. To ensure constant updating of the image signal to be displayed, a second storage device, connected to the video storage device and the first storage device, is adapted for reading data words from the first storage device and writing them into the video storage device in such a manner that the reading of the data words from the first storage device is interrupted when data words are being read from the video storage device.