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DaveMMR:
I'm of the "Viva la CRT" camp as well. I have my arcade monitor sitting in my parent's basement, waiting for a new home in a freshly built cabinet. This is partially why I abandoned a full-size slim.  I'd rather stand in front of a CRT than an LCD, even if I am saving space, and save the LCD for a bartop.

When it comes to classic consoles, however, I'm all about "go CRT or don't bother." I tried hooking up an NES, et. al. to a new LCD and it looked horrid. This is original hardware so there's no emulator tweaks to use. Besides that - I can find old TVs at yard sales, thrift stores and sometimes just sitting curbside with a sign that says "it works!" so there's little excuse not to use one for old consoles.
ZeroPoint:
@ Paul Olson

Thanks for reminding me. That DK with the artwork looks like the real deal. Just forgot to tell you two years ago.  :banghead:

New version for 0.152  available here:

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,113151.msg1413508.html#msg1413508

My choice for a lcd-monitor is the Eizo fg2421. This is probably the best crt-like LCD around right now, and hlsl looks really amazing on this monitor.
Warborg:

--- Quote from: 8BitMonk on February 28, 2014, 11:18:50 am ---@Warbog: I agree about that it can be subjective, I probably should've said 'clearly inferior in my mind'. My unscientific and completely subjective opinion is that the difference is so dramatic that if you did side-by-side comparisons with the average person off the street nine out of ten of them would pick the arcade monitor as having markedly better display quality.

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I understand, although I'm still not sure about "better" as opposed to "different"...  But then again, CRT did certainly have a quality to it that is hard to replicate on other types of displays.  I guess my personal view is maybe that LCD isn't "better" or anything, just that I'm willing to accept it with some tweaks (and at times don't mind setting up some additional filtering/blending/etc.) for some of the other conveniences it affords such as weight, energy consumption/heat output, and space savings...  Oh and cost vs. size...

Living in an apartment, building a smaller pedestal and sticking a flat panel on the wall in front of it is certainly a plus when you are trying to make the most out of the space you've got...
RandyT:

--- Quote from: pbj on February 28, 2014, 12:17:41 pm ---You know, I read the other day that CRT light guns will actually work on LCDs if you can get them to display the signal in the native resolution (480i).

I'm extremely skeptical of this claim but have no way of testing it.

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No need to test.  CRT lightguns rely on the scanning of the electron beam gun in a CRT, and use timing to figure out the location of that single point of light.  LCD's don't work even remotely similar, so it's not possible.
Warborg:

--- Quote from: DaveMMR on February 28, 2014, 12:22:55 pm ---I'm of the "Viva la CRT" camp as well. I have my arcade monitor sitting in my parent's basement, waiting for a new home in a freshly built cabinet. This is partially why I abandoned a full-size slim.  I'd rather stand in front of a CRT than an LCD, even if I am saving space, and save the LCD for a bartop.

When it comes to classic consoles, however, I'm all about "go CRT or don't bother." I tried hooking up an NES, et. al. to a new LCD and it looked horrid. This is original hardware so there's no emulator tweaks to use. Besides that - I can find old TVs at yard sales, thrift stores and sometimes just sitting curbside with a sign that says "it works!" so there's little excuse not to use one for old consoles.

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I still have some of the older consoles sitting around, but at this point I'm not even really bothering trying to hook them to the LCD...  I already have an HTPC hooked to the TV, so at this point I'm just going to focus on setting up emus on it...  Going to try to cover Genesis, SNES, PSX, PS2, GC/Wii, some arcade, and even use ScummVM w/wiimote to play some of those awesome old point-and-clicks...  :)
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