[POLL] - What do you use for your display?

[kelemvor]

This post isn't to discuss monitor or displays, I just want to see what everyone is using so hopefully it's OK in the Main forum.

If you have more than one cab, pick your favorite or the one you use most or whatever criteria you want. 



Personally, I haven't decided yet.. I have a 20" LCD to use but if I get a full-size cabinet from an arcade place, I may throw a bigger TV in there since it'd be designed for something larger...

[metahacker]

might i suggest splitting up TV into S-Video, Composite and Component?

[tikbalang]

is this only for cab owners?

[javeryh]

I like the look of an actual arcade monitor but I used an LCD in my last one and it looks OK.  I'm the only one who actually notices a difference.

[Neilyboy]

I am going to be using a 27" flat tube crt tv in my mame machine. I picked it up for 50 bucks last night. good find off craigslist.

Neil

[ChadTower]

Can we assume this is MAME cabs only?

[kelemvor]

is this only for cab owners?

Well, don't vote for someone else's cab if they post here but I guess it doesn't matter.  Not like this is official or anything.

And as for other cabs?  Doesn't matter to me.  If you built it, what'd you use?  Just post the details in a post if it's something other than Mame.

[leapinlew]

what if I'm using two types in a jukebox?

[Malenko]

arent TVs technically CRTs?

anyways, Im using a 27" VGA CRT based monitor. the kind you find in bowling alleys above the lanes that display the frame and score........

I know this because some of the other ones for sale had bowling score burnin. I bought it 5 years ago for like $125 and I still <3 it.

[kelemvor]

TVs are CRTs but they aren't Monitor.  TVs have tuners in them and monitors don't.  However in this post I was referring to a CRT computer monitor.

[gonzo90017]

!7" Lcd WideScreen Monitor.

[danny_galaga]

15" pc monitor in my cocktail. would like to build an upright some time and ill go 21" but not sure what ill use. 21" pc monitor is dirt cheap. until i do anything new, ill just run a 10M AV cable from my pc to my bedroom tv so i can play mame in bed (",)

[Anubis_au]

20" gen-you-ine arcade monitor.

Purist all the way, baby!

[Havok]

20" 4:3 LCD. Next cab just might go widescreen!

Less weight, less heat, less energy and I don't get a irradiated when I play arcade games...

 

[xmenxmen]

s-video to tv in one and a 21in crt nec in another.  overall I prefer the pc monitor as things are much clearer espeically vertical games.  On the other hand, the tv is huge and things don't look blocky. 

Next cab will probably be lcd, woody style.

[Herk]

Hey,

I use a 22" widescreen 16:10 LCD

Herk

[bigh4th]

I'm rockin a 19" curved CRT monitor in my cocktail.  Main reasons for this is because i got the monitor for free, it was less than 5 years old, it was free,  I didn't have to buy a special adapter to use it, and it was free.

I removed it from its case and mounted it to the top of my cabinet so I can open it and get to stuff that I need to, so I could easily move the cabinet without needing to re-position the monitor afterwards, and so I could use a bezel.

Just an FYI, Even after you properly discharge a CRT, you may need to do it again if you leave it laying around for a few days.  I had mine apart for a week or two (tube sitting on a towel) and had a couple of thunderstorms roll through.  I dont know if it was static from handling or from the t-storms, but that thing nipped me twice.  It wasn't anywhere near full blast, but it didn't feel good either.

-Harry

[ChadTower]

It happens because the first discharge wasn't 100% of the buildup, it was only most of it.  Over time the remaining charge gathers itself and looks for a way out as well.  That is the second zzzzzap.  Think of it like water.  You can dump out the bucket by throwing all the water out... but if you don't let it drip for a minute afterwards, you'll still have a little water in it.

[bigh4th]

I dunno.  I understand what you're saying and you're right.  However, I discharged it 3 times in 20 minutes before I removed the lead from the tube.  Monitor had been unplugged from the wall for a few days before I did it as well.  It still could've held a charge I guess.  Stranger things have happened.

Either way, you gotta be carefull.  I'm just lucky the tube was secured before it happened, because I flinched both times and very possibly could've dropped it.

-Harry

[severdhed]

Im using a 19" LCD monitor in my cabinet.  it originally had a 20" arcade monitor, but it was really burnt when i got it, i wanted to change the monitor angle and fitting a CRT at the angle i wanted just wasnt going to work...so an LCD seemed like the perfect choice.  i am very happy with the way it looks.

[ChadTower]

I dunno.  I understand what you're saying and you're right.  However, I discharged it 3 times in 20 minutes before I removed the lead from the tube.  Monitor had been unplugged from the wall for a few days before I did it as well.  It still could've held a charge I guess.  Stranger things have happened.

It takes far longer than 20 minutes for that leftover charge to gather itself.  Always discharge the monitor before you touch anything to that anode.  Even if the thing has been unplugged for months you still pretty much have to discharge it... for every 50 that don't shock you the one that does is the problem.

[Anubis_au]

I use a 22" widescreen 16:10 LCD

Bit of a thread highjack, but could you post a pic of your cab, Herk. I've haven't yet seen a cab with a widescreen monitor... wouldn't mind seeing how it looks...