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Wells Gardner U3100 vs PC-monitor -worth it?
Frobozz:
Yea, I thought long and hard about that, but in the end, I reasoned that:
1) I didn't want to dink around with DOS, which in my book is a "dead" operating system.
2) I didn't want to have some crazy sequence of powering up my cabinet, or have to solder togeather some funky circuit to let the monitor know the video card is now in the right mode for it.
I suppose a true arcade monitor is the only way to go, but when I got my U3100, I was willing to live with a compromise. When I got it, I was so impressed, I now consider it the "best of both worlds". Side-by-side with a real arcade monitor running the same game, I'll probably notice the difference, but I'm not that much of a videophile and I don't believe it's worth the hassles mentioned above. :)
Lilwolf:
Quick note. Not my pictures! They have been going around here for a bit. Great for showing the differences.
and to compair two different screens, as long as the digital camera is decent, and you use the same one on both, it should be fine. Not perfect, but they should both be off about the same.
I want to see someone with both an ArcadeCRT and SVid setup and take pictures.
Carsten Carlos:
Of course, different digicams would show different colors, sharpness and so on. But it would help either if the photos are so close that you can see how the scanlines-effect is provided.
Guess what, I have found a third possibility where I may get a WellsGardner! It's not sure if they have some left, but when I'm lucky I could get one from the Netherlands, which is nearer then the UK, and also there isn't so much water between ;)
I hope tomorrow I get the callback from them, they don't sell WellsGardner furthermore, but still have some in stock. So wish me all luck!
When I'll get ever through to this, I'll like to make some pictures. Anyway, I'll try the TV, but you'll never see me make a TV rotable, also I hate to adjust picturesize on TV, there are some tools around that make the Geforce-S-Video-output somehow bigger, but all at all it never works perfectly.
Frobozz:
OK! I FINALLY got some pictures of my WG U3100's display.
I got 9 of them, each about 800K High-res JPEGs (6.8meg all together). Problem is, I have no web-space to put them.
How can I get them to you Carsten? Got a mailbox big enough? I really don't want to shrink them down if I don't have to.
Carsten Carlos:
Hi Frobozz!
:)Glad to here that! I have a (nearly) unlimited mailbox for this pictures, but please use the following email-adress: Carlos@Mittelalterlicher-Markt.de
Better copy&paste, it isn't so easy to type this when you are not familiar with german ;-)
I like big pictures, so don't shrink them, quality is always a good thing! I'm still working on it, but you don't mind if I take some of them on my arcade-section of my homepage? This section is still to build, but as soon as I make progress and have something to show, I would like to show the world outthere what this stuff is all about. I also would like to make some comparisons TV->WG, so this would be very handy!
My Netherlands-dealer seems to be in easter-vacation, I still know they have TWO and they would most likely sell me both of them. Unfortunately I'm only waiting for the phone-call which price I've to pay. But I'm pretty sure I'll take them (if the price is really good both of them), at least when they are half so good as you mentioned! :D
So bomb my mailbox, I once receiver 12MB and that worked :)
Many thanx!
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