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I Love Craigslist - Found Ultimate Monitor I Have Been Looking For
csnow:
As much as I love arcade cabinets (have several), I really love sitting on the couch or in a comfy bean bag to play my retro games. I have always wanted a mix of retro consoles and MAME at my figertips but outputting MAME to a TV has always been very blah to me I have been searching CL and found this wonderful gem last night. I know it probably won't impress many, but I feel like a kid at Christmas time. Nice big 36" CRT TV with (2) SVGA ports and a plethora of other goodies on the back. This beast will allow me to connect a MAME PC via VGA, Dreamcast w/VGA, PS2, and Wii. Here is a picture of the massive TV sitting in the back of the Excursion this morning.
Malenko:
PC input with RCA connectors, and a PC input with a headphone jack connector? Thats awesome.
I like the speaker outs too.
RandyT:
The thing to be careful of with some of these "Presentation" monitors is that they often just used an inexpensive scaler inside to display VGA. This is fine for most purposes, but the quality might not be very good. If you were lucky enough to find a true multi-scan (usually a Mitsubishi), then you hit the jackpot. I found three of them for close to no cost about a decade ago, two 36's and a 27. They are a nightmare to store and move, but I would never give them up :)
DeLuSioNal29:
Wow, nice find! What brand of TV and model is it?
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csnow:
It is a RCA MM36100. I hope the picture looks good via VGA but I have to wait for my son to get back into town this evening to get it out of the Excursion. Luckily, there was a construction worker at the apartment complex where I bought it at that helped me load it. There is no way I could have come down the stairs with it. Well there is, but it would have elbows and legs rolling in fast succession all the way down:). This thing feels like it weighs a ton. If it turns out to be a crappy internals on the VGA, I am only out $50 for the TV and $10 that I paid to the guy to help me load it. I will still make use of it regardless for my old consoles. Fingers crossed.
Update - Very positive threads about the VGA quality on AVSforums. I am hopeful.