Look what arrived today...

[stigzler]

That's certainly a nice price + nice resolution. Yerp - if you were designing your cab around it - that would be a boss acquisition. At 29:9 - it's a little off common marquee dimensions, but there'd be ways round that - concealing part of it somehow. Bit lower on brightness at 250, but steams ahead on contrast ration at 5M:1 (!?!)

If I ever do another - that's a winner.

[dkersten]

That was the nice thing about Blip!.

Blip used a scanpixel too though, not a 21:9 off the shelf model.  I don't think he shared the purchase price of the monitor either.  Only prices I have seen online were out of Taiwan but came to around $850.  Still tempting...  But then I wouldn't do that unless I was doing a 55" for the main display turned sideways and using full sized virtual bezels too.  Doesn't everyone have $4k to blow on a single mame cab?

[yotsuya]

That was the nice thing about Blip!.

Blip used a scanpixel too though, not a 21:9 off the shelf model.  I don't think he shared the purchase price of the monitor either.  Only prices I have seen online were out of Taiwan but came to around $850.  Still tempting...  But then I wouldn't do that unless I was doing a 55" for the main display turned sideways and using full sized virtual bezels too.  Doesn't everyone have $4k to blow on a single mame cab?

I meant the nice thing about Blip was that he integrated it well, not the type of screen is used.

[dkersten]

Yes, it was integrated VERY well.  Even if you planned to use a 21:9 I can't see it looking well integrated.  Just because it is fairly wide, it is still too tall to fit the stereotypical arcade cab aesthetically.  Scanpixel seems to be the only company you can find online who sells screens that fit the aesthetics.

[yotsuya]

Yes, it was integrated VERY well.  Even if you planned to use a 21:9 I can't see it looking well integrated.  Just because it is fairly wide, it is still too tall to fit the stereotypical arcade cab aesthetically.  Scanpixel seems to be the only company you can find online who sells screens that fit the aesthetics.

I think it can on a scratch build, if planned around it. But since it's a gimmick I have no interest in attempting,  we'll leave it at that.