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| Havok:
--- Quote from: loadman on June 30, 2006, 10:51:36 pm ---I tried a LCD in my cocktail table and it was no good, Looking at the LCD screen at extreme angles. It may have been OK if I could afford a really good LCD --- End quote --- That's an issue only with the older (or perhaps cheaper) LCD's - Mine can be seen clearly at up to about 170 degrees. Two people playing side by side have no issues at all seeing the image. Also - the "real" blacks are again only an issue on cheap LCD displays. Plus, since you are putting it behind smoked plexi, it is totally compensated for even if you do have display issues with true black. |
| 97thruhiker:
I have to agree with Havok combined with my own experience. The viewing angle / black is really non issue today with a majority of your decent LCD's. Additionally, I don't know how else to say that when it's behind smoked plex it looks beautiful. The smoked plex cuts down on the brightness and brings the colors out actually (at least it looks that way to me). If you can rotate the LCD playing the classic games are wonderful. I have nothing against using a tv, crt, or real arcade monitor even. If I was building a 90's era fighting cabinet needing a 25 - 27 inch screen then a tv or arcade monitor might be a better choice (even with that said my friend and I love playing street fighter on my cabinet). As I mentioned before an LCD was not my first choice (due to the same concerns I read here from other posters) but I am extremely happy that I went this route. |
| Minwah:
Personally I hate LCD's....they ghost, the colours are not great, poor viewing angle, one fixed resolution (well, for good quality image). The only advantage is space/weight so they are fine for desktop non-gaming use (I just bought an LCD monitor/HDTV combo as I don't have room for both a CRT TV and monitor). I can't think of a single reason to not use a CRT in an arcade cabinet, unless size/weight really is that big an issue. Also one point which people sometimes miss is that running MAME at a high resolution (ie to match the LCD's native mode) can hamper performance considerably. Perhaps not noticable on really fast machines but I suspect demanding games will still suffer. I suppose if you are just wanting to play modern PC games then an LCD would be alright, but for MAME and suchlike LCD's are just not suitable IMHO. |
| vrf:
--- Quote from: Minwah on July 03, 2006, 09:30:37 am ---Personally I hate LCD's....they ghost, the colours are not great, poor viewing angle --- End quote --- Sounds like your experience with LCDs has been limited to what you can find at garage sales. You might rethink this after trying newer ones. |
| RobotronNut:
--- Quote ---one point which people sometimes miss is that running MAME at a high resolution (ie to match the LCD's native mode) can hamper performance considerably. --- End quote --- that is why i like plasmas so much. they have much bigger pixels, a disadvantage for some uses, but great for mame. i get 640x480 pixels in a 33" diagonal area on a 42" widesreen plasma. (a 25" 4:3 plasma would be perfect...) the 20" and largerLCDs are even higher res - 1600x1200. they can take lower-res signals, which they interpolate to fill the screen. is anyone using these lower-res modes successfully with mame? |
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