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should I buy this monitor for my arcade build?
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Paul Olson:
A 25" arcade monitor mounted horizontally is 15.75" tall, which is about the same height as a 19" arcade monitor mounted vertically. I have a 24" LCD on my Desktop, and it is just a hair under 13" tall. So the one you have will be quite a bit smaller for vertical games than a 19" vertical arcade monitor. The widescreen LCDs really make it hard to get a comparable image cheaply. You would need a 32" 16x9 LCD to get the same 15.75" height.

It is up to you and your wallet how close you want to get to that. :)

Hope that helped a little.

Paul
shateredsoul:
 Yeah that definitely helps. It's going to be a lot more expensive than I thought =(
Blanka:
Try to grab a 1920x1200 screen instead of a FullHD one. They are significant larger vertically, and with good looking not more expensive.
BadMouth:
I snagged this chart from somewhere here on byoac, but don't remember who to give credit to.  ???

It will give you an idea of how much shorter a screen smaller than 25" would be.
The 19" vertical CRT is shown in purple.
Blanka:

--- Quote from: BadMouth on March 21, 2010, 06:27:11 am ---but don't remember who to give credit to.  ???
--- End quote ---

Thank you  8)
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