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| FrizzleFried:
--- Quote ---CAUTION NEVER use LCD Flat Screen TELEVISIONS to play classic arcade games. Do not be fooled - DO THE RESEARCH. LCD "Televisions" are made to watch Television - NOT play demanding classic arcade games that all have different sizes and refresh rates. BEWARE! Arcade games over time will DESTROY LCD Televisions. You will have to replace the TV many times over the life of an arcade cabinet. DO YOUR OWN INDEPENDENT RESEARCH PLEASE. Ask yourself the question - why do commercial arcade cabinets use ARCADE MONITORS and not televisions. There must be a good reason...the Professionals have done the research for you. --- End quote --- http://cgi.ebay.com/Dual-Video-Arcade-Game-2-Player-Cabinet-for-PC-MAME-tm_W0QQitemZ110365538823QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item110365538823&_trksid=p4011.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A2|65%3A10|39%3A1|240%3A1308 Oh Really? While I agree that an authentic arcade monitor is the way to go, the rest of this quote what I question... Opinions? |
| pinballwizard79:
Yeah I sent them a message back in the day asking if their systems are PC based. When they said yes I reminded them how a TV out graphic card will not send damaging signals out to the TV & LCD based displays connected to a PC via VGA have been working fine for the rest of the world as is so I have to question the integrity of such a statement. They said "oh we now offer them in LCD" I said "send pics". Never heard back. |
| Xiaou2:
A CRT will generally outlast an LCD by at least if not more than 2x its lifetime. LCDs backlights are only rated for so many hours, and even the ratings can be inaccurate... as bulbs can and do fail prematurely. (that and todays electronics seem to have a very short lifespan due to shoddy worksmanship and poor components + non-lead solider which is causing too many electrical shorts from hairs/burrs that form in the manufacturing process) I question the fact that games will destroy an lcd. The only thing that can occur is a sort of stuck-image.. but it can be undone with certain procedures. The poor refresh however will be the biggest issue. |
| SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: FrizzleFried on March 22, 2009, 02:31:08 am ---Oh Really? While I agree that an authentic arcade monitor is the way to go, the rest of this quote what I question... --- End quote --- Didn't some of the early cabinets use modified television sets? Even the Atari vector manual mentions using "Standard" CRT tubes. Besides, have these fools actually tried to pump a signal into an LCD TV that the TV didn't like? Not like anything actually happens with those limiting circuits. Like X' mentions, I'd probably be more worried about a burned bulb than a burned out LCD. --- Quote ---why do commercial arcade cabinets use ARCADE MONITORS and not televisions. There must be a good reason...the Professionals have done the research for you. --- End quote --- I don't suppose it has anything to do with the last time anyone actually saw a television set that accepted a straight 15KHz RGBS signal? |
| FrizzleFried:
--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on March 22, 2009, 02:47:35 am ---A CRT will generally outlast an LCD by at least if not more than 2x its lifetime. LCDs backlights are only rated for so many hours, and even the ratings can be inaccurate... as bulbs can and do fail prematurely. (that and todays electronics seem to have a very short lifespan due to shoddy worksmanship and poor components + non-lead solider which is causing too many electrical shorts from hairs/burrs that form in the manufacturing process) I question the fact that games will destroy an lcd. The only thing that can occur is a sort of stuck-image.. but it can be undone with certain procedures. The poor refresh however will be the biggest issue. --- End quote --- But X, you and I both know an average arcade machine in the home isn't going to see enough usage to have any issues with an LCD for a decade or more... The quote is disingenuous.... and the ebay ad in it's entirety (with the super huge fonts, and colors, etc) is absurd. These people are being less than truthful trying to sell there wares. IF they'd have simply explained that CRT's are more authentic and provide the ability to run many of the different games at their correct resolution, they'd be good as gold. As soon as they try to explain that arcade machines kill LCD's, they're stepping in to douchetastic territory IMHO. BTW: I found this link at KLOV where the guys there were laughing at it and going on about "What's AUTHENTIC about a MAME cab", etc. ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- like this, while minor for sure, does put punch a black eye on the MAME community (in the eyes of truly "AUTHENTIC" arcade machine collectors). |
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