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| evitagen:
I'm located in Jackson, MS. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm very excited about undertaking this project. So far the cabinet is complete and now I'm waiting on my controls and electronics to come in so I can begin the fun work. I've tried craigslist somewhat, but most of the time I'm not sure if the TV pictured has an S-video input or not... and most people do not even know what that means if I even attempt to ask them. But thank you guys for attempting to help me. I honestly cannot believe it is this difficult to find an old 25" CRT television. Specs on my cabinet are around 26.5" wide and 19.5" high. You people know better than me... I might even have to go smaller than 25 with those numbers, but I'm honestly not sure. Thanks again guys. As soon as I'm finished I plan on posting some pics. I'm a virgin to all of this. |
| Jack Burton:
You should be able to barely get away with a cased 25" monitor if you space is 26.5" wide. My 25" TV is exactly 24" wide. I believe one of these would be the best thing for you to get short of an arcade monitor: http://www.broadcaststore.com/store/prod_detail.cfm?eq_id=500690 Look around, you may be able to find one cheaper with shipping online than the TV's that are listed on the Jackson Craigslist. |
| Blanka:
What was the dominant connector in the USA for hooking up VCR's and DVD players to a TV? Here every TV has 2 scart plugs, and they handle composite, S-video, RGB and sound in one plug. |
| richms:
Thankfully the scart diesese didnt spread outside of europe much, there are some cases of TVs coming to Aus/NZ with scarts on them, but that has stopped now that everyone is demanding HDMI and component inputs. HDMI is just as bad as far as connectors go but is free of a lot of the problems that scart had. Older tvs would have a svideo socket beside the yellow RCA for video on at least one of the AV inputs, then that was largly replaced with AV1 being composite and AV3 being component, with AV2 being on the front of the tv and being composite and svideo |
| cmoses:
I was recently in your same situation with slightly different circumstances. I have a NVidia 9400GT that I will be using that has a component break out cable. So I was looking for a 27" TV that had to have component inputs. I decided that Craigslist was the best option as I didn't want to pay shipping and wanted to be able to see the TV in action before buying. It took a lot of patience and a lot of emails but I was able to find a Sanyo 27" flat screen with component inputs. I started out by sending an email to the person posting the ad asking for the measurements and if it had component inputs. Most people would reply with very vague answers - about 26" wide and I think it does. Information that didn't make me feel real confident. So I quickly learned that the best thing to do is to email asking for the manufacturer and model number. You will usually get a good reply. I would then go to the manufacturers web page and go to the support area and look up the model number. Most of them have the manuals in PDF form for each model. They have exact measurements and what inputs are on the back. This way you know what you are getting. Then it was just going to look to make sure the picture quality was good. By the way, you may want to go to your local WalMart as they do still carry a 24" CRT TV that might work for you. I am sure it will have S-Video inputs. |
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