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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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