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Need an opinion, maybe some suggestions...
« on: January 30, 2009, 12:28:36 pm »
I'm still working on my upright racing cab, hoping to make some
headway in the coming week when my wife's out of town   ;D

I have a 19" PC monitor set aside for this SCI cab, but after
holding the bezel up to it, it looks like the original arcade monitor
(which wasn't sold w/ the unit) was slightly bigger... more like a 20" tv or
something.

I have a 19" tv but it's old... doesn't even have direct inputs,
only has coaxial cable inputs.  I have an RF box for it so I could
hook up a pc if I wanted to but the quality will be much less,
and I'd have to get a different (but cheap) video card to do it.

I'm thinking there are enough high-quality racing games that I will
want the PC monitor, even if it's of a slightly smaller size and that
re-bezeling the monitor is the way to go (adding a second inner bezel)
but I wanted to scope some opinions, maybe even get some
ideas of people's must-have pc-related or emulated racing games
that really should be pc-monitor played.

Or, if I'm off, and need another suggestion, that's good too...


Thanks


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Re: Need an opinion, maybe some suggestions...
« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2009, 12:34:51 pm »
For whatever reason, computer monitors are not measured correctly, unlike TVs, arcade monitors, and everything else.  Most 19" PC monitors are actually 18" or so 'viewable'.  Try craigslist for a 20" or 21" PC CRT, which should be closer to the actual 19" -- they seem to be practically given away on there.  Definitely avoid the RF TV connection.