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LCD screens, lets see pics of em!
pinballwizard79:
I am going LCD on my next cab which I should be starting pretty soon.
Considering the 28" HannG
Would anyone like to post pics of their arcade utilizing a fancy LCD monitor?
Yeah yeah, sure I can spend a week looking in the projects page but then we wouldn't have anything to talk about in the forum now would we? ;)
Thanks.
Droler:
Mine is FAR from "fancy" and the cabinet still needs work, but my Dell LCD is a nice hi res 4.3 (not widescreen) and rotates on its stand to horizontal and vertical. I'm actually posting this reply from my cab since it's in my home office and my work PC is tied up right now...
Some day, when gas prices plummet, and I get a raise and a bonus in the same day, I will replace it with a nice HDTV LCD of 27" or larger, so it won't need to rotate, but for now it's a nice enough screen for me and my kids.
It kind of looks lost in that cab, but the Centipede monitor right next to it is the same size (a little smaller actually) and the MAME cab is almost the exact same width as the Centipede. Bezels make a huge difference.
northerngames:
if you use it for mame playing only get a real arcade monitor and run them true.
only good thing to running a lcd is movies and high res pc games but if you dont plan on running them then a lcd would be a waste compared to the real thing.
Hoopz:
Droler, is that the pc version of Golden Tee?
pinballwizard79:
northerngames, you crack me up :laugh2:
:soapbox:
If you want to play games "true" then buy the actual arcade, its still emulation even if its on an arcade monitor my friend, sorry.
Lord knows it would be cheaper to purchase a brand new digital arcade monitor but why should I? It would be even cheaper to do a cap kit with a special graphic card but man does that suck to do.
CRT's are being phased out for a reason, why drop $550+ on a new low res monitor that is plagued with issues & not offered with a service plan?
I am not knocking real arcade monitors BTW, look at my current showcase arcade & you will see a freaking MASSIVE 33" Wells Gardner in it.
BUT
I want to play lots of MAME yes, but also daphne, visual pinball (thats a huge reason there, VP on an arcade monitor just plain sucks) as well as PC titles like TigerWoods08+, virtua tennis, Bikini Karate Babes, updated PC bowling games, new sports titles from EA & etc as well. Dreamcast, SNES & etc are important too.
Whew, anyway.
Thats why I want LCD, been analog, done that & want more than just a MAME machine.
Again, I am not anti analog, I am just defending my position on the LCD's
keep gaming