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opt2not:


--- Quote from: HarumaN on December 08, 2010, 02:11:42 pm ---Nix the wife and use the 32" CRT...   >:D

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:lol

newmanfamilyvlogs:

I'll be willing to bet that the 4:3 has a higher resolution than the 16:9, and thus will look better at closer distances. The higher resolution an LCD the better things like scanline emulation is going to look.

mattmayhem:

Sell the 21.5 inch for about $60 and buy a 25inch crt with svideo for about $25, then with whatever money you have leftover take the wife out for dinner. Problem solved.

If your putting anything in a midway cab, nothing looks as good as a 25" crt. Its was a easy choice for me and it looks almost OEM. The resolution in the long run will be better then if you put a LCD in there. 99% of mame games are older and look to pixeled on a lcd, they need that slight image blur to make them look nice. I thought about throwing a 26" lcd in my KI cab, and I just couldnt get past the crisp flat picture for all the old games, The lines were to sharp and there was too much motion blur caused by the lcd that it actually made it look worse! Trust me on this one, CRT is the way to go and if you look, you can find a 25" tv with svideo for like $25 on CL or Ebay or at local garage sales, flea markets, etc!

Good Luck.

Donkbaca:

The CRT thing is pretty much out of the question.  I have to go LCD and make a slim cab.  The cab is going in our office so she doesn't want it taking up huge amounts of real estate.  Not going to fight her on it. 


Going to use it primarily for mame.  Can't even run SFIV on my rig. 

mattmayhem:

Oops, sorry man, I though you mentioned you had a KI2 cab it was going on and I realized that you were mentioning someone elses cab. I change my vote to the 21.5, it will look better in a cab then a 16x9.

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