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Any good reasons to hang onto a CRT monitor?
epicfatigue:
i Guess i must be a Crt junkie,
I have used a 29inch Samgung Gen9 3d Computer monitor at 120Hz (Gaming Screen)
Aswell as a standard LED and i didnt find anything looked as good as my refurbished WG-k7000 using calamity drivers.
Side by side i liked the CRT much more ( all the effects were enabled on MAME)
And side by side an original arcade machine running the same game i could not tell the difference (AVP)
I just find there is a smoother effect and i love the rounded edges you get to a CRT.
It might just be because as a kid i never played a LED game.
Mainly because they were not around neither were CDs!
Howard_Casto:
--- Quote from: epicfatigue on May 15, 2013, 07:59:06 pm ---i Guess i must be a Crt junkie,
I have used a 29inch Samgung Gen9 3d Computer monitor at 120Hz (Gaming Screen)
Aswell as a standard LED and i didnt find anything looked as good as my refurbished WG-k7000 using calamity drivers.
Side by side i liked the CRT much more ( all the effects were enabled on MAME)
And side by side an original arcade machine running the same game i could not tell the difference (AVP)
I just find there is a smoother effect and i love the rounded edges you get to a CRT.
It might just be because as a kid i never played a LED game.
Mainly because they were not around neither were CDs!
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Just enabling them isn't enough, you've got the tweak the heck out of the default settings to get a reasonable simulation, and then you've got to put it behind smoked plexi. I'm not saying that you can't tell the difference if you got both monitors running side by side but if you DON'T have them running side by side you would be hard pressed to tell much of a difference.
My guess is we are all about the same age as you if not older (check the age thread) we didn't play games on lcds either.
But silly arguments aside.... there are still a very select few reasons to keep a crt. If you want some true light gun action be it on a console or via mame, you'll need a crt. Crt's are also brighter than lcds, so if you have a setup where you want to reflect an image via a mirror (older cabs with overlays) then a crt works better. If you ever want to build a CNC machine or something else that might be in a hazardous environment then a crt would be more durable. If you like to haunt for Halloween take a crt, hook it up to a pc or media player, put it in a chair facing up, get some plexi and put the whole thing in a window for a floating head illusion. They also make great boat anchors I'm told.
I'm about to get rid of a buttload of crt tvs this summer but I'll probably keep a small one. Why? Because if I want to use R.O.B. or a Zapper again, I'll need to hook my nes up to a CRT.
epicfatigue:
:) thanks for the lesson sorry to hijack the thread, i have spent the last 6 months hunting for a replacement CRT for when mine fails (which it will one day or another) now i can just say to myself go a LCD.
i didnt use smoked plexi !
Vigo:
One point in favor of CRTs. Good luck finding a 4:3, 27 inch LCD.
Howard_Casto:
You can't find 4:3, but 16:10 monitors are fairly easy to find and you can get a slightly larger one and it should still fit inside your cab.
That's what I did... I think mines a 32 inch 16:10.... something like that?
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