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Wells Gardner U3100 vs PC-monitor -worth it?
Carsten Carlos:
Hi Zipper! Thank you very much for offering help!
The pdf-document was pretty interesting - many measurement and technical details :)
Have you got a photo of your monitor in action? Maybe only a detail, just to see it in action? You could also email me, doesn't matter what size.
Have you ever tried to install it vertical? I'd like to get it rotable, and that's the second reason (first I'd like to have an original "scanline look") I'd prefer using a professional monitor instead of a PC-one.
Last but not least how long are the VGA-cable and the cable from the remote control? I don't need exact measurements on this one, but as I'm still in construction with my cabinet, at this point I could still change nearly everything in my design.
Many thanx in advance!
Carsten
Lilwolf:
Consider going with a SVid TV (or pal or scart if your in the UK... something other then US composite)
http://www.xiaou2.homestead.com/turbo.html
to see the outcome. Then you will have access to Windows without using a super old video card.
The price of the TV should be about the same as the shipping for the ArcadeMonitor and you wont have to worry about configuration and blowing the arcade monitor because of the wrong refresh rate
Carsten Carlos:
Hi Lilwolf!
Well, I guess I'll hook a TV (got a Sony 21" left) on my PC to just test how it feels. But i wouldn't like to make a TV rotable, doing this with an industrie-style monitor sounds much more smoothly.
I saw the photos on your homepage before - very helpful, thanks to that. I knew about the effect, but it's pretty emberassing to see the differences at the woods located in Spyhunter!
Perfect would be another photo comparing with a Arcade-like SVGA-monitor.
As it is a SVGA-monitor with a similar big dotspace as an arcademonitor, you get the benefits of an arcademonitor and plus it's very easy hooking it up to a PC via the normal VGA-port.
So blowing the monitor wouldn't be a problem here.
I hope anyone could send or show me photos of Arcade-style SVGA-monitors in action, unfortunately I won't find someone hear in Germany where I can simply have a look at the real thing. :(
Zapper:
Frobozz, thanks for the U3100 info. I'm planning to buy one also. The two different versions is news to me. Happs lists the one on their site as a universal mount, it's the M2TS26H version priced at $463 :o. Maybe just the M1GS08K version is horizontal mount only. Can you post some pics of your monitor in action?
Frobozz:
I don't know. I called WG twice, got two different people, just to confirm it. Both told me the same story about the difference in tube grade. Both told me they only had horizontal mounts.
The one guy I spoke to thought for sure there was a model with a universal, but after being on the phone with him for a good amount of time, he confirmed they no longer come in universals.
Maybe Happs has an older stockpile, or their web page hasn't been updated. Dunno.
Man Carsten Carlos, that sucks!! I can't BELIEVE the shipping costs!
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