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| evitagen:
I've been searching for an old tube TV for my cabinet in the range of 25-27" but I'm having zero luck finding one locally with an S-video jack. I do have a perfect sized 25" that only has a coax connection. It doesn't even have composite inputs. My question is, is this usable for MAME using the appropriate S-video card with some kind of adapter? I assume there is some kind of RF adapter that converts to S-video, but I'm really not very knowledgable about all of it. Assuming it can work, would the image quality be horrible? I just want an average picture and am having no luck finding a TV appropriately sized for my cabinet that also includes an S-video input. Any help would be greatly appreciated. |
| Ginsu Victim:
Just keep looking. Don't even settle for composite. S-video is the minimum quality you want. |
| evitagen:
Is composite that terrible in comparison? This will be my first cabinet, by the way, so I won't have anything to really judge from. I will keep looking though. If anyone has a working 25" TV with an s-video input that they wouldn't mind selling, let me know because I would be glad to purchase it. Even Wal-mart doesn't sell CRTs anymore. At least on their website. Up until doing this project I never really noticed how sparse a CRT TV was. Now that I'm looking I'm finding that literally nobody sells them anymore. I'm going to check out Best Buy tomorrow, but I have a feeling if they have any they will all be overpriced. |
| Jack Burton:
Where are you located? I'll help you look online for something that works. |
| Blanka:
What about Craigslist or something like that. Our Marktplaats has tons of S-vid capable TV's available for a tray of beer bottles, a postcard or a free hug. |
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