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Arcade Cabinet Glass - Tint or No Tint?
Jimbo:
S'cuse my ignorance, but can you get different grades of tint? If so, what's the recommendation for an arcade monitor? I'd kick myself if I went too dark...
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Wienerdog:
How does tinted glass look on an LCD? I can understand turning the brightness up on a CRT, but that's proably not good for and LCD. I've always liked the idea of tinted glass because then you can't see the side bars when you run a vertical game on a horizontal screen. However, now that I'm using an LCD, I'm thinking it would be crazy to use tinted glass.
javeryh:
--- Quote from: Wienerdog on October 08, 2007, 01:53:52 pm ---How does tinted glass look on an LCD? I can understand turning the brightness up on a CRT, but that's proably not good for and LCD. I've always liked the idea of tinted glass because then you can't see the side bars when you run a vertical game on a horizontal screen. However, now that I'm using an LCD, I'm thinking it would be crazy to use tinted glass.
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I'm using tinted glass with a 19" Dell LCD on my current project and it looks amazing.
fixedpigs:
--- Quote from: Knievel on October 07, 2007, 11:04:10 am ---Arcade Monitor - Tint
PC Monitor - No Tint
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what about a television for a monitor...?
Level42:
--- Quote from: spacies on October 07, 2007, 03:37:08 am ---
It probably is the worst option but I was just answering his question on how to tint plexi glass.
Glass is the best option but in some instances its not practical.
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Indeed, and plexi comes in more colors, and even more important more grades of tint. So there's no real need to do tinting yourself, I guess the results will always be less quality then pre-tinted.
I would have chosen glass to replace my bezel on my Star Wars, but when I went to the glass dealer they told me that it would be impossible to get glass that is that darkly tinted. And I wanted it to stay as original as possible.
I guess it's also what your local supplier is carrying of course....