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paigeoliver:
Also, stick with standard classic tv sizes and curved tubes (19", 25" and 27") because the Happ bezels fit those tubes, plus they are usually cheaper anyway.
Trenchbroom:
Pacman, decided to put a TV in your classic Midway cab, eh?  I was in the same boat a few years ago.  Picked up a Panasonic 20" S-Video TV model # CT-20D11E.  22" wide, not a flat tube, S-Video & stays in Video mode when power off. 

Checked the net...looks like it might be a hard TV to find now.  But if you come across one pick it up.  I think it works well.  The only problem I have with it is heat--I put it in at the original monitor angle (not 45 degrees from horizontal but close...you know what I mean) and like most TV's that are in that position the heat doesn't vent properly.  So I have no door on the back of the cab and I have a 6" box fan I found at a yard sale blowing air into the cab to help cool it off.
paigeoliver:

--- Quote from: Trenchbroom on June 02, 2005, 01:58:13 am ---Pacman, decided to put a TV in your classic Midway cab, eh?  I was in the same boat a few years ago.  Picked up a Panasonic 20" S-Video TV model # CT-20D11E.  21" wide, not a flat tube, S-Video & stays in Video mode when power off. 

Checked the net...looks like it might be a hard TV to find now.  But if you come across one pick it up.  I think it works well.  The only problem I have with it is heat--I put it in at the original monitor angle (not 45 degrees from horizontal but close...you know what I mean) and like most TV's that are in that position the heat doesn't vent properly.  So I have no door on the back of the cab and I have a 6" box fan I found at a yard sale blowing air into the cab to help cool it off.

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If you just decase it then the heat problem goes away.
pacmod:
The sharp had a great picture.  I went to every store imaginable to find a 25" without side speakers and s-video.  The shart worked perfectly.  I would spray paint the casing black before you put it in, but other than that, the picture looked good.  It did not have the auto-on feature you see in many of the toshiba's, but there has been plenty of threads about fixing that.  I went with something simple.  Pinhole through the bezel and used the remote to turn it on.
MustardTent:

--- Quote from: paigeoliver on June 01, 2005, 11:20:08 pm ---My giant cocktail has a 27" tv in it. I don't recall the brand, I just bought the cheapest one they had. I decased it for clearance reasons (and so I could use a happ bezel).
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I've heard this a couple of times here.  Why is decasing the TV necessary when using a Happ bezel?
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