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What is the best Arcade Monitor to get?

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Circo:

I have said this a million times but I will throw in my two cents again as I have owned the wells gardner, betson, and now the billabs, what is that $1800 in monitors over the years??? My wife would kill me if she knew :dizzy: but I digress.

WG - Great picture, but it did die within 2 years

Betson - I know many people are happy with this POS, but if you search you will find many threads about issues with the picture, specifically how it bunches up on the sides giving a fish eye effect on scrolling games, it drove me crazy and I had to bring the picture in over an inch on each side to use it.  Betson wouldn't help and I ended up selling it for a huge loss because it drove me crazy.  I absolutely despised this monitor.

Billabs - Wonderful product, have never been happier and everyone who sees it is amazed.  Also with it's 1024x768 resolution it allows you to have some stunning layouts and play PC games as well.  Also it leaves you enough vertical lines to play vertical Mame games at full original resolution with an arcade VGA card.  ***** 5 stars!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I have owned this monitor for over 3 years and have never had an issue with it.

Having spent a minimum of at least one year with each product I can ONLY recommend the billabs, it is a few dollars more, but is worth it.  If you are going to go all out and get a true multisync monitor the billabs is the one to get.

Did I mention that the betson was complete crap???  :angry:  And they didn't stand behind their product... :censored:

Lakersfan:

I loved my Betson until about 4 days ago when it started going spastic on me. Now I have a thread in the monitor section looking for support. :(

PS- I've only had it since September and have actually been using it since beginning of this month.

Spaced Ace:

Just bought a 32" Gateway Destination 2000 computer monitor for $50.00.  Best investment as far as arcades I have ever made.  The picture is simply put, awesome.

But if you can find one, I suggest a Monivision.  Cant go wrong, reliable, low maintance, durrable.

They have them here:

http://www.psism.com/svgamoni.htm

But the shipping will be atleast $300.00 or more in the US.

I suggest looking local first.

rdowdy95:

If I have ArcadeVGA will I still need to use PowerStrip or will I have to have both of these items.

ahofle:


--- Quote from: rdowdy95 on December 14, 2007, 01:39:13 pm ---If I have ArcadeVGA will I still need to use PowerStrip or will I have to have both of these items.

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No you won't need it.

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