Safe to rotate an LCD

[dmsuchy]

Would it be safe in the long term with rotating a 19" LCD? And is it true that a 19" LCD is the same viewing size as a 21" CRT monitor?

[dmsuchy]

Cool, thanks Guru! About the resolution, if I'm just playing games from Donkey Kong to Metal Slug would an LCD be fine, I doubt I'll be playing any vector games on it.

[Jess--]

my mame cabinet currently has a 19" acer panel in it (my 20" arcade monitor died and I am waiting for parts to fix it) the 19" tft is slightly larger image size than my 20" arcade monitor.

I can say that although the image is pin sharp on the tft and the colours are strong it just doesnt look right. I cant put my finger on whats wrong with it but I would not recommend it for cabinet use. also remember the problems with viewing angle on tft screens (look from too low down and its dark, from too high and it washes out, if you rotated the monitor this would happen as you moved from left to right)
 my thoughts... save your money and get yourself a proper arcade monitor and one of ultimarcs arcadevga cards.

[elvis]

But the problem is LCD's have ONE fixed resolution. It cannot resize the pixels to fit another resolution

One thing to consider:

Some large LCDs that have native resolutions of 1600x1200 can run stretched 800x600 modes and not look too bad, as the stretch is a clean integer ratio.

Of course, 1600x1200 LCDs are expensive, and I would consider them a waste to throw in a cabinet when a 21" TV can be had for so cheap, and a 1600x1200 LCD would look just super on your home PC instead.

[dmsuchy]

Thanks guys! It is just that LCDs now are so cheap, Tiger has a 19" for 199 bucks now.