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| rampy:
--- Quote from: Aceldamor on June 13, 2003, 01:56:46 pm ---Very nice improvement Rampy!! I do have a question about the plexi thing.... My cab doubles as a TV (thanks to my all in wonder card) and a DVD player. Would the smoked plexi make those images look darker or distort color?? --- End quote --- thanks! I don't honestly know. It will make images "darker" er... less bright, but I think it doesn't mess up the colors too radically... (probably depends on the quality of the plexi you use to -- regarding color transmittability/color shift... but i'm talking out my arse there...) Mines a PC monitor so I can really tell... I do watch the occasional DIVX clip on it and aren't freaked out by the smoked plexi if that's what you mean... =P rampy |
| Aceldamor:
Hmmm..... I would assume it would be ok, I'm usin' a WG D9200. I suppose if it was a problem, I could make it removable. Anybody else out there play movies on thier cabs?? |
| IceCold:
--- Quote from: Aceldamor on June 13, 2003, 05:31:17 pm ---Hmmm..... I would assume it would be ok, I'm usin' a WG D9200. I suppose if it was a problem, I could make it removable. Anybody else out there play movies on thier cabs?? --- End quote --- I plan on playing movies on my cab once I get it working. |
| Shieldwolf:
What's the difference between smoked plexi and non smoked? I understand the smoke has some sort of tint or cloudy look but how does that make your machine look better? |
| rampy:
--- Quote from: shieldwolf on June 24, 2003, 11:35:55 pm ---What's the difference between smoked plexi and non smoked? I understand the smoke has some sort of tint or cloudy look but how does that make your machine look better? --- End quote --- Well smoked plexi is tinted, non smoked is well clear. A good discussion about why it can be a a good thing here 1. it helps hide monitor mounts or obscure cheezy poster board bezels. 2. Aside from vectors it does kinda make games look a little better 3. If you are playing a vertical game on a horizontal monitor it hides that fact a little bit (aside from the reduced size) as the black borders =--- just look black 4. It amkes the games seem like they kinda glowing in empty space 5. on an old arcade monitor it's a trick to obscure/minimize the ovbiousness of burn in. 6. When the monitors off it just looks dark and cool... I guess would you rather have your cabinet look like this? or this? (actually after pic here more pics in half arse gallery ) Granted adding the laminate and t-molding on the CP coupled with the smoked plexi helped make Ubercade look more finished... they were nice semi-smallish touches that made a big difference in appearance IMHO -- which was the whole point of the beginnin of this thread... *shrug* Rampy |
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