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| RandyT:
--- Quote from: dot on August 27, 2004, 12:37:07 pm --- --- Quote from: Warborg on February 05, 2003, 04:56:27 pm ---Hmm, I might have to give this a shot myself... Replace the glass in my Showcase with some smoked plexi, see how it works for an S-Video TV instead of an arcade monitor... :) One question is will it interfere with the IR signal of the remote? Only time will tell... --- End quote --- Holy crap! I hadn't thought of that. I'm just about to start my cabinet and am planning on using a ~25" TV w/S-Video input. I really hadn't thought about how I was going to turn that thing on. Now've I've got some planning to do. I don't want to have to keep track of a remote. SHAZBOT! --- End quote --- IR can pass through materials that allow no visible light to pass. I was using a remote with mine (before the RGB monitor) and had no problems. So don't worry, it'll work :) And if you are worried about losing the remote, velcro it just out of sight on the top of your machine, or tether it inside the coin door. Better yet, find a TV that remembers that it was on and set to S-video ;) RandyT *edit* spelling |
| patrickl:
--- Quote from: RandyT on August 27, 2004, 12:13:44 pm --- --- Quote from: patrickl on August 27, 2004, 09:49:15 am ---He,he, no, but are you that insecure that you need to claim "I have been in this business for x years" on just about every subject. If I add them all up you should probably be 100 years old now, but more importantly "precision optics" is quite a bit away from the "glass industry" or comparing smoked plexi vs glass. --- End quote --- But as usual, you've convoluted a thread full of good, simple advice by adding uncertainty and criticism about something you appear not to fully understand. --- End quote --- I only stated an obviously true fact that glass looks better than plexi. For some reason you seem to need to turn even that into a a pissing contest. |
| tcleary:
i'm a little confused. my cab has tempered monitor glass. would it look better if i also used a sheet of smoked plexiglas also? and if so, would I put that in front or in back of the tempered glass? thanks for any help. Tim |
| RandyT:
--- Quote from: patrickl on August 27, 2004, 02:10:21 pm ---I only stated an obviously true fact that glass looks better than plexi. For some reason you seem to need to turn even that into a a pissing contest. --- End quote --- From 6" away, you wouldn't be able to tell. Most of the people where I work have to tap on it to know for sure, and even then some of them have trouble. Yeah, real obvious. As for why we are here, one just needs to look at your posts. (now don't delete them like last time) RandyT |
| RandyT:
--- Quote from: tcleary on August 27, 2004, 02:26:16 pm ---i'm a little confused. my cab has tempered monitor glass. would it look better if i also used a sheet of smoked plexiglas also? and if so, would I put that in front or in back of the tempered glass? thanks for any help. --- End quote --- I wouldn't try to use both. You didn't state whether the monitor glass had a tint to it or not, so I'll assume that it doesn't. Placing the dark plexi in front would be the least offensive, but would have no advantage to using it alone. Placing it behind the monitor glass would just add more stray (distracting) reflections, so it would also not be better than just the plexi or monitor glass alone. If you are looking for the effect that OSCAR documented at the beginning of this thread, you may well like the dark smoke plexi better than what you are currently using. RandyT |
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