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mgb:
In my cab I have a 27" multi sync crt in the vertical position because vertical are my main interest and for the room I have for my cab, I couldn't have too wide of a cabinet.
I play horizontals on the vertical screen and they look fine. its actually just a hair bigger than they would be on a regular 19" horizontal arcade machine.
sshaw10:
I'm putting plans together for a first cab and have spent dozens and dozens of hours fretting about a monitor.  I will digress a bit from your original question but will get to it after a quick vent.  I appreciate the purists for CRT and scan lines but it's becoming very expensive and difficult to find monitors.  I'm designing a cab to last a long time, LCD's will be around for replacements.  A good LED backlight source will last a long time as I plan to leave my cab on all the time.  They use a lot less power.  The ASUS monitor I got has a 1ms response time, there is zero noticable blur.  I prefer the image.  I was amazed when I first started looking at rotating displays and started designing a direct drive setup.  But I just kept thinking if I got a 27" monitor, even at 16:9, I can mask the ends off and still have a  big enough area for horizonatal and vertical play.  There are online porpotion calculators where you input the diagnol and ratio and you will get the x y dimensions.  BUT, for some fighting games that had big screens it might be small.  I have no interest in most of those games, I'm looking for standard v and h games with something square like Defender or Asteroids being my biggest, square games.  These look really good on the monitor.  I'm just deciding to mount it v or h and where to mask.  Most of the posts on this topic I read were older and it's only somewhat recently that these 27" monitors with 1080 resolution (which on a regular pc would not be high enough for me but for this use is overkill) have started selling under 300 bucks.  I will be starting some software setup and config this weekend and really taking a better look at the monitor and will post updates in the projects thread. 
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