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SavannahLion:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on January 02, 2012, 04:24:50 pm ---Well I got a 16:10 instead of a 16:9, so that helps a lot.  It equates to the 4:3 size being about 1-2 inches smaller diagonally as opposed to 16:9, where it's more like 3-4.  I can live with the slightly smaller screen.

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Quite honestly, I never thought of it like that, that means the bars are going to smaller too.

I wrote an ImageMagick script a few years ago to figure out cross resolutions, I wonder if I apply it in this context whether one can get an idea of useful 4:3 real estate before purchasing a monitor.

Howard_Casto:
A 27 inch 16:10 equates to a 24.5 inch 4:3

I took a cab that should have a 25 inch tv in it and crammed in the 27 inch lcd... so the screen size is virtually identical.

A 27 inch 16:9 is much worse, I'm thinking almost 19-20 inches. 

16:10 monitors are hard to find, you can only find them in 24-27 inch sizes and if you don't wait for a deal, you'll pay for the extra space.  I go mine for 220 but it was normally 350.  Had to wait for newegg's xmas sale.

shmokes:
I may have to look at that eventually. I have a 27" decased TV in mine and it is so freaking heavy. I just moved into a 4th floor apartment with no elevator and I had to take my cab apart to move it upstairs (thank god I designed the whole thing to break down). It was a giant PITA, but even with a rented appliance dolly I couldn't get the thing up the stairs. It was just too heavy. Granted, I made some design mistakes along the way that contribute to the weight issue. I used 3/4" melamine when I should have used 5/8" plywood and laminated it myself. That would probably shave 50 lbs. at least off my cab. But still, that TV probably weighs 70 lbs. Just lifting the tube into place to mount the thing is almost too much for two people thanks to the awkwardness of getting it in place.

Hopefully whenever the day comes that I'm rebuilding or replacing my monitor 16:10 will still be an option. Even a 27" 16:10 will cut 2" off my screen real estate. I'd have a hard time losing even more than that.

Howard_Casto:
The weight was the biggest factor for mine as well.  The 27 inch tv inside wasn't completely gone, but it had started expanding the image well beyond the screen limits and simple adjustment wasn't fixing it.  I probably could have fixed it by replacing some parts, but once I started pulling the stupid thing out of the cab I swore that I'd never put it back in.  It's just too damn heavy and too akward to work on. 

Rest assured that the material choice is trivial... the monitor is what adds the weight.  When I built my pacman cab I could move the whole completed thing around just with my bare hands.  I could literally just pick the thing up and I used 3/4 inch plywood!  One puny 19 inch monitor later and it's scoot the thing or risk a hernia. 

I don't think they add that much weight, they just add it in the absolutely wrong place when it comes to distribution. 

On a somewhat related note.. I've now got to use a different lightgun system.  My cab was so old it used the svid act-labs guns.  Hmm... I've got extra wiimotes now. 


Oh btw, I FINALLY got my roms back in order (except chds of course).  And yes, I've been working on this since my first post.  Clrmamepro wouldn't fork over an accurate list of broken sets and romcenter kept freezing due to the massive bulk increase from the EM games.  To top it all off, my favorite romz site was having server issues.  So yeah, it basically took a week.  And I'm still not done.  I've got most of my artwork in sync with 144, but I need to update the flyers, which I'm sure will be massive.  Then I'll go on to vp and fp.  And then it's these oddball emulators that I can't seem to get rid of like daphne, model 2 and supermodel. 

shmokes:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on January 04, 2012, 11:29:50 am ---I could literally just pick the thing up and I used 3/4 inch plywood! 

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I dunno if you've worked with melamine, but it's a lot heavier than plywood. I'd say at least 50% heavier. Trust me, even if I went LCD, my cab is WAY heavier than it ought to be. The wood I used is adding substantial unnecessary weight.

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