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Stiletto:
Let's keep in mind:
if people are really desperate for a large 4:3 display, cut holes in the side of the cabinet and build boxes to mask the edges of a 16:9 widescreen LCD monitor. With your typical 2560x1600 30-inch widescreen LCD, you should be able to get a 4:3 diagonal of 26.5" at a resolution of 2133x1600 (almost 4:3). Or build the cabinet to fit a widescreen LCD, and then mask the edges.

- Stiletto
Todd H:
Yep, that was my thinking when I decided to go with the 25.5". The width was just a hair under 24" so it was a perfect fit for my Dynamo cabinet.
Stiletto:
Here's something weird:
Sharp makes a LCD panel designed for Air Traffic Control. It's not 4:3, it's actually 1:1 with a native resolution of 2048x2048.
http://www.sharpsma.com/Page.aspx/americas/en/part/LQ281L1LW14/
And the response rate is 25ms so it's not designed for gaming - but the size: 28.05-inch is massive! :)

Also: Sharp has a massive 28.3" LCD Panel, again designed for industrial use. PN is LQ283G1TW11. It's 5:4, not 4:3, and has a native resolution of 2560x2048 (2x 1280x1024!) but... viewing angle is small (170deg/170deg), brightness is low (225 nits), contrast ratio is low (400:1) and response rate is 25ms...

For both of these, pricing is approx. $1000 or more per diagonal inch. Yeah, that's right.

- Stiletto
Necro:
Hehe.  I can see it now, forget CP based wings...now it's widescreen LCD wings!

Honestly, if I could fit a decent size widescreen into my cab, going that route might be worthwhile.  As it is, I don't think it's possible...although the potential for the LCD dying eventually and me not being able to replace it (even a 19" or 20" 4:3) is worrisome. 

I'm retrofitting an older cab, so I only have 24" of internal space to work with, best case....(just checked dimensions of a 24" monitor, and they seem to come in a tad under 24 even with bezel, at around 22 3/4" wide).

Did some quick calculations, and if I'm right, it seems that these should be the dimensions. 

24in 16:10 - 12.7 x 20.35
22in 16:10 - 11.65 x 18.65
20in 4:3 - 12 x 16
19in 5:4 - 11.84 x 14.8
19in 4:3 - 11.4 x 15.2 (don't exist as far as I can find).

So.  With a 22 inch WS monitor, your basically losing height over both the 19" and the 20" monitors that are actually available, though it should be under half an inch.  For that, you'd basically have a setup (mounting, etc.) that could easily have the monitor swapped out in the case of a failure or problem.  With a 24" monitor (which some are available for cheaper than a 20" 4:3's are now....), you'd beat out both the 19 and the 20 'standard' res monitors.  Interesting.

I have some hard thinking to do about what I'm going to use in my cab now...and possibly may bring my desktop 22" monitor down to the cab to see how it looks reflected in the cabs mirror...

 
Stiletto:
Note that with LCDs, if you're planning to rotate the screen, make SURE it's a S-IPS (pref.) or PVA panel. TN panels tend to have shorter viewing angles in general, and specifically much shorter vertical angles. Rotating 90-degrees turns this into the horizontal angle, which is (broadly) judged to be more important.
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