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| severdhed:
I am helping a friend build his first cabinet, we are just finishing up the control panel and will be starting on the cabinet soon. We are not quite sure how we are going to do it yet, but he has a 36" CRT computer monitor (800x600) that weighs in at a little over 200lbs. we plan on making a stand for the monitor out of 2x4s and plywood, and then building the cabinet up around it. |
| whoozwah:
--- Quote from: GinsuVictim on April 19, 2008, 03:58:19 pm --- Isn't that TV too low? I would think that you're looking at it from an awkward angle like that. --- End quote --- nah. It's perfect height for me either standing at it or sitting in some barstools. |
| RoninEditor:
If your tv has component, then you don't need a special graphics card to connect it... just use this (cheap) cord: http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10235&cs_id=1023503&p_id=2170&seq=1&format=2 It's a VGA to Component! |
| DJ_Izumi:
That's a VERY misleading piece of cable. All it REALLY does is change the pinouts. The signal going into that would have to be component in the VGA cable. You must note one very important thing 'component' is a misleading title. Anything where the signal is seperated into multiple signals is 'component'. VGA RGB is component and some AV gear takes an RGB signal. But the component video that almost all home televisions take is NOT RGB component, those TVs use YPbPr component rather than RGB component. (Yes, even IF the video jacks re colored red, green, and blue). If you're hooking up your PC to a component television, that cable is USELESS. There is ONE excepton I know if, an ATi All In Wonder Card where they sold a small 'VGA to HDTV' adaptor. But this was misleading. The adaptor has dipswitches on it to select your analog HDTV signal, it communicates with the card and basicly says 'Yeah, you gotta switch from RGB to component output mode now, 480p please.' and the card obeys. I don't even know if this adaptor works on other ATi cards, but basicly the adaptor does nothing except convert the pinout and give the graphics card a command, the graphics card itself switches modes and starts generating a different kind of signal. |
| Paladin:
Now I'm getting paranoid. I bought all the guts from the 38" monitor version of Gauntlet Legends that someone bought so he could use the cabinet for MAME. I'm building a showcase cabinet from scratch, and have been worried about strength. I downloaded the showcase cab assembly instructions from mameroom.com, and their plans look like it's only held together with screw cams. I've been downloading all the pictures I can find online of the Atari/Dynamo showcase style cabs. So far I've only found two photos that show the cabinet with the door open, and it looks like 1x1 reinforcments are all that are used. I downloaded the showcase plans from jakobud's site, but the measurements contradict themselves so I'm pretty much winging it based on that design. I'm using 3/4 particle board with 1x1 reinforcements. I'm gluing and screwing all panels to the 1x1's and crossing my fingers that it's going to be strong enough. I just started assembly today on the monitor pedestal, and I should have it done tomorrow. I'm letting the glue dry on the foot section before adding the front and back panels as well as the top and single shelf. |
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