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| MonMotha:
19" PC monitors (which will do VGA and usually quite a bit higher) are readily available free or nearly free from junk piles at this point. If you tear the plastic casing off, you can mount the tube and boardset onto a frame of your liking (and possibly construction). The dot pitch will be tighter than most arcade monitors resulting in crisper graphics (which is often undesirable at low resolutions like CGA or EGA), but if you intend to use this at VGA, that's not a bad thing. |
| leapinlew:
--- Quote from: MonMotha on March 30, 2010, 01:13:27 pm ---19" PC monitors (which will do VGA and usually quite a bit higher) are readily available free or nearly free from junk piles at this point. If you tear the plastic casing off, you can mount the tube and boardset onto a frame of your liking (and possibly construction). The dot pitch will be tighter than most arcade monitors resulting in crisper graphics (which is often undesirable at low resolutions like CGA or EGA), but if you intend to use this at VGA, that's not a bad thing. --- End quote --- I appreciate the info. The thing is a 19" Arcade monitor is 19" viewable. A 19" computer monitor is 18" viewable. The cabinet I'm using, I need it exactly 19". Javery - I looked on the page and all I saw were CGA monitors. Did I miss something? |
| Ginsu Victim:
--- Quote from: leapinlew on March 30, 2010, 04:12:55 pm ---Javery - I looked on the page and all I saw were CGA monitors. Did I miss something? --- End quote --- Other than LCD, that's all I saw (and obviously LCD isn't an option!) |
| leapinlew:
Here is my jukebox: You can see from the photo that the monitor needs to be exactly the same size. The bezel clams down around it. |
| MonMotha:
--- Quote from: leapinlew on March 30, 2010, 04:12:55 pm --- --- Quote from: MonMotha on March 30, 2010, 01:13:27 pm ---19" PC monitors (which will do VGA and usually quite a bit higher) are readily available free or nearly free from junk piles at this point. If you tear the plastic casing off, you can mount the tube and boardset onto a frame of your liking (and possibly construction). The dot pitch will be tighter than most arcade monitors resulting in crisper graphics (which is often undesirable at low resolutions like CGA or EGA), but if you intend to use this at VGA, that's not a bad thing. --- End quote --- I appreciate the info. The thing is a 19" Arcade monitor is 19" viewable. A 19" computer monitor is 18" viewable. The cabinet I'm using, I need it exactly 19". Javery - I looked on the page and all I saw were CGA monitors. Did I miss something? --- End quote --- Depends on the monitor, what country you're in, etc. In some countries, all displays are marketed by viewable area. You could get 19"s in those, but they were marketed as a "20 inch" in other countries where the bezel size was included in the size of the display. The US of course switched somewhere in the middle, so you can't go by the labels unless you also know the date. Just measure it. They're out there, and usually free/cheap. Oh, and arcade monitor measurements have the same problem. Size varies by region and how they measure. Example: A 29" Japanese monitor is a 27" US size monitor. |
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