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OSCAR:

Eightbit, yes I agree, it makes vertical games on a horizontal monitor not look quite so bad.  It would look even better if I had a larger monitor in the cab, though.

Ashardin, I got mine at a lumberyard.  They had a decent selection of plexiglas there, better than the Home Depot here in town.

BTW, I've uploaded a few more comparison pics.  After playing a few different games now, I see that the Galaga pic isn't the best representation.

www.oscarcontrols.com/smoked



Sasquatch!:

Well, I know what I'm going to use for MY next bezel!  ;)
Thanks for the write-up and comparison pics, OSCAR.

CthulhuLuke:

Wow, that's kind of a bizarre thing to have such a vast improvement on the picture, but it truly does look better, like the colors and such.  I wonder if it would do the same with a computer monitor and an s-video inputed television?  *Hint hint*
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The Man:


--- Quote from: OSCAR on February 04, 2003, 07:59:42 pm ---I knew you would reply anyway, so I figured I'd just get your attention first.  :)


I was getting ready to buy something to go over the monitor on the cabinet I'm working on when I read a post you wrote about using a dark smoked plexi.  I figured I'd give it a shot since you were pretty happy with the results.

I had no idea how good it would look!  I'm pretty happy I decided to go with a smoked plexi instead of just standard glass.  The games & colors looks so much better.  The funny thing is that I thought they looked great before, I didn't know what I was missing, but that tends to be the case unless you actually do a A-B type test....  Check out this link to see what I did, along with a couple more pics.  For reference, the monitor shown here is a W-G 9100 powered by an Asus GeForce 2.  The same exact camera settings were used in the comparison shots.



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Sorry I didn't see the descustion about this before.

My DigDug cocktail machine has tinted plexi on it.  I'm not sure what the original was made out of, but it started to bubble and looked like crap.  I went to a plastic fabricator and had them make me a replica of the original using smoked plexi.

Your pictures are very accurate to the results I got when I removed the original plexi that was in the machine.  That's what prompted me to get something to replace it.

Sorry I didn't see the post before or I would had said something.

TM


Rocky:

I'll add my agreement that tinting really makes it look better.  My cabinet came with a piece of smoked glass, so I decided to incorportate it in my plans.  It is hard to describe the difference between just turning down the brightness on the monitor. It cuts the glare. It hides the outline of the monitor case.

Now I just have to seal it a little better so I don't have to keep taking it off to clean the dust off of it  >:(

Rocky


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