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shorthair:

I'm not sure this is worth posting due to the quality of my pictures, but I'll post and  update the pictures, later.

I just today got this 27" Monivision presentation monitor. I got it for $50 on ebay. The shipping was about twice that, but as this thing is (supposedly) 140 lbs (wasn't able to carry it from the car, but hoisting it from floor to desk was less problem than I thought, though not necessarily recommended), it was actually cheaper (and easier) for them to send it freight on a pallet and me pick it up several miles away in town, than it was to have UPS or Fedex ship it.

The first thing about it is that it's in superb shape. No scratches, very little dirt. (I cleaned it, of course, anyways.) Turn it on. Nice picture...but, though it's set at XGA, same as the arcade monitor, the picture isn't as sharp. Everything in the menu except convergence. Hmm.  I look closely...compare it with my Billabs. Hm - the Billabs is actually a finer dot pitch. Curious. As I like very high res graphics, I prefer using this monitor with Mame D3D with bilinear filtering off. Then it's about as crisp as the Billabs - in Mame - but, of course, the color is different. An arcade monitor, or at least mine, even outside of native resolutions appears to present richer colors. Lighter, yes richer. Greater depth, perhaps.

Next we have the audio. For anyone using a TV outside of a cabinet, this is a feature one might like. Not only does this have stereo speakers. It has a sub - as well as bass and treble controls in the menu. Kicks decent ass. The fidelity is pretty good...though I tend to fancy my Harman-Kardon 2.1 system that came with my old Dell.

On the back, it's a little circumspect in it's video-in features. VGA in (and out), S-video, and composite (A/V). There's also inputs on the front behind the little door below the display.

What's really funny is the viewable area looks smaller than the tube of the Billabs. But it's actually a half inch or so bigger. Something about a flat display, I think. But the image is noticably bigger to me cos of the slightly larger dot pitch.

Anyways, all-in-all, a good buy so far. Worth it just for the experience. (Of course, I now have two large monitors....)

fjl:

So what is it? An arcade monitor?  :dunno

Shmup-o:

holy carp, no wonder you're excited  :o...

Monovision Presentation monitor

shorthair:


--- Quote from: Shmup-o on May 09, 2007, 10:49:50 pm ---holy carp, no wonder you're excited  :o...

Monovision Presentation monitor

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Except mine is a little older, as it's a curved screen. But it's pretty neat. It doesn't do a lot of resolutions through my avga, though vector games with 'switchres' look cool...Tempest and Black Widow are pretty brilliant...though vectors look pretty good, regardless. Raster graphics are just slightly undefined with DD - RBG sharp. Some of you might really like it for that reason, especially without it. Hopefully will have a better camera soon to show some decent screen shots.

Havok:

Nice find. Perhaps you can make a vector only cab? Vector games are my personal favorites, with the exception of Robotron...

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