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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. --- End quote --- 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). --- End quote --- I've heard this a couple of times here. Why is decasing the TV necessary when using a Happ bezel? |
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