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CRT Vs LCD for driving cabs
Malenko:
--- Quote from: dkersten on August 27, 2014, 12:11:24 pm ---If your cab is 25" or wider you can get a 27" LCD and then you are splitting hairs as the difference in height is negligible, and quality and availability are worlds better.
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Nooooooooope. I have a 28" LCD in my MK Cab, and even though it fill more horizontally by like 4 inches, its still smaller vertically than the 25" CRT that came with it from the factory:
The bezel lines up almost perfectly with the wood on the sides of the cab for the glass rest.
http://www.nicetaco.com/tv.aspx
generically speaking:
25" 4:3 TV is just under 20" wide and a ball hair over 15" tall
28" 16:9 TV is about 24 1/2" wide and about 13 3/4" tall
Also, it means my 28" LCD will display a 4:3 source at 18.2" wide and 13.7" tall, which is smaller than a 25" monitor (mathematically speaking, its about the same as a 23" 4:3 monitor)
so that means even though its over 4 1/2" wider its still over an inch shorter. All that being said, I went LCD for this build for a ton of reasons. Takes up less room in the cab, I can fake the CRT effects close enough with some filters , lighter, and the LCD was easy to find cheaply. I have a medium res 27" arcade monitor I *almost* put in there. But its just going to live its life as a spare for the faster than speed cab. peep the nicetaco link, it really makes the math easier.
dkersten:
Sorry I was referring to strictly LCD's, the Planar 23.1" is negligibly taller than the 27" 16:9 LCD, and I think you can find 27" 16:10 screens that are taller.
I agree that you can get a taller 4:3 when you go CRT, but for that argument I default to what Howard is saying about racing games in particular. The only optical game I will spend any time playing is Championship Sprint, and I don't have any nostalgic memories of playing it with scanlines.. When I build my sit down racer, I will primarily play more modern games that take advantage of higher res monitors, widescreen, and even 3 screen setups. Anything I play with that setup that looked better on a CRT will still be "good enough" for me.
But then I am not a hardcore CRT fan. I see them as heavy, expensive, and unreliable. Sure, I would love to build one cabinet exclusively for the "ultra classic" arcade games that uses a CRT, but aside from that I am perfectly happy with using LCD's.
Malenko:
I need to stress again that Im actively using a LCD in my MAME rig ,lol.
As for racing cabs, I think if you can use an LCD and it doesnt affect the game much, then great, use it. I cant use on in my faster than speed cab because I'll loose a bunch of vertical real estate. And while its true a lot of games support widescreen format (like the model 2 stuff and even virtua racing) if you have one of those cabs like mine that are dedicated you'll have large bezels to hide the difference in screen height. If you are rolling your own cab (PUN!) then I sya go for the LCD
I have a sim driving rig (cheapie Playseat and a Fanatec Forza Wheel and Pedal combo), that I also use to play MAME/Model 2 on, its hooked up to a wide screen TV. Its great, but its not a cab :(
flash951:
In my Final Lap cab, it's only 19" inch originally, the original monitor had a good picture so I suspect it must have been replaced once because of the bad state the rest of the cab was in. So a 16:9 widescreen had been an easy fit in that particular cab, if the original monitor went broke. But I went for the biggest CRT I could fit, and it was a struggle to mount, because of the limited space, in addition the first 25" CRT TV tube I mounted was bad and had to be replaced. I had to make custom mount for the TV picture tube and make the "behind the glass" bezels and cut out a new glass with an outside bezel anyway, in my case.
Howard_Casto:
--- Quote from: Malenko on August 27, 2014, 12:25:29 pm ---
--- Quote from: dkersten on August 27, 2014, 12:11:24 pm ---If your cab is 25" or wider you can get a 27" LCD and then you are splitting hairs as the difference in height is negligible, and quality and availability are worlds better.
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Nooooooooope. I have a 28" LCD in my MK Cab, and even though it fill more horizontally by like 4 inches, its still smaller vertically than the 25" CRT that came with it from the factory:
The bezel lines up almost perfectly with the wood on the sides of the cab for the glass rest.
http://www.nicetaco.com/tv.aspx
generically speaking:
25" 4:3 TV is just under 20" wide and a ball hair over 15" tall
28" 16:9 TV is about 24 1/2" wide and about 13 3/4" tall
Also, it means my 28" LCD will display a 4:3 source at 18.2" wide and 13.7" tall, which is smaller than a 25" monitor (mathematically speaking, its about the same as a 23" 4:3 monitor)
so that means even though its over 4 1/2" wider its still over an inch shorter. All that being said, I went LCD for this build for a ton of reasons. Takes up less room in the cab, I can fake the CRT effects close enough with some filters , lighter, and the LCD was easy to find cheaply. I have a medium res 27" arcade monitor I *almost* put in there. But its just going to live its life as a spare for the faster than speed cab. peep the nicetaco link, it really makes the math easier.
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Going by your own math that you posted. That's a difference of 1.25 inches or two diagonal inches, which is negligible. Also that's a 16:9... you were supposed to get a 16:10. ;) If you put a 30 inch 16:10 in a 27 inch space the difference is only half an inch. Also if you can manage to find an inch and a quarter extra space in the width you can cram a 32 incher in there and it'll actually be slightly larger in 4:3 mode than the 27 incher. I'm not saying that 16:10 displays are easy to come by, you have to hunt around, but they are worth the extra effort.
From your comment I also think that you don't get what I meant about widescreen mode. When a game supports both modes, widescreen mode doesn't crop the sky and foreground to make the 16:9 aspect, rather it extends the left and right of the horizon. So no, even if the screen is physically smaller, you see MORE in widescreen mode.
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