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southpaw13:

This might have been covered, but I see monitor manufactures no longer selling CRT screens.  Any advice for someone that wants to restore a couple Williams cabs?  They are going to run Mame, but should I be trying to pick up a few VGA CRT's now or just get LCD's?   

Thanks for any suggestions,
SP

Beretta:

thats hard, because neither will look like the original.

the lcd will be lighter and easier to work with, lcd's dont like resolutions different then their native, anything larger then say 21 inches is gonna be wide screen.. infact now days almost ALL are wide screen, this means some way some how you're not gonna get the full screen out of most games unless you destroy the games aspect ratio.. it also means fitting a smaller screen then normal in a cab since it's wider then a standard 4.3 arcade monitor.

the vga crt on the other hand are heavier, harder to mount, but can handle different resolutions better..
they come up to 19 inches without much trouble.. can even find them in 21 inch.. anything larger then that is very difficult to find.. you can probably get a vga crt cheap or free.

manufactures are ramping down production so it's becoming harder and harder to find new ones, once they go out it's difficult to get them repaired i had a 21inch go out on me and none of the shops would touch it, they're all repairing lcd's these days.

again neither will look like the original.. for that i suggest you get a arcade monitor.

or my 2nd choice would be a crt tv, also on it's last leg, but at least they look a lot closer to an arcade monitor then the lcd or vga, you can get crt tv's free or for cheap.

GaryMcT:

I would suggest trying to find a Wells Gardner D9500.  They are great for this sort of thing, but they aren't made anymore (they no longer have a source for the tubes.)


GaryMcT:

. . and LCD is going to look WAY different!

At some point I'm going to get the highest DPI LCD I can find and see about putting better CRT emulation in Mame.  I think you should be able to get pretty close as the DPI gets higher and the contrast ratio (specifically the black levels) get better.

Avinitlarge:

I replace my old tube with one from a CRT TV without any major issues

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