using a square screen tv/monitor

[gazz292]

Got a golden tee 98 cabinet to mame, it's got the standard hantarex polo 25 incher monitor in it, but has pretty bad screen burn and a dodgy chassis... keeps cutting out every so often)

i want to play vertical and horizontal games when i mame it, and was thinking of making a rotating monitor mount, but then i thought about another possible way....

So i was thinking about getting a TV with a square screen, usually they are 25 inch screens, there's some sony trinitrons that are like that,

would i be able to easily display the vertical and horizontal games on a square screen like that? i.e. as in widescreen mode with letter boxes at the borders?  or would i have to do something to the signal to make it display properly?? i.e. would the tv try to stretch the picture or owt?

i'm in the uk, so the TV has a scart socket, so i'd shove RGB to it, bypassing the tuner and all that.

to make things complicated, before i make the mame cabinet, i want to use it with a jamma 48 in 1 board in it's origional jamma harness, just adding joysticks to the cp,
i know about adding the resistors to the RGB lines to drop the high jamma video signals, but would a square tube tv mess up with the jamma board which expects to display on a monitor that's got the standard oblong tube?

[DJ_Izumi]

Are you sure that 1:1 ratio TVs exist, outside of screens made for extreamly specific and typically embedded uses?

[gazz292]

not sure if they are true 1:1 ratio jobbies, but they look kinda close.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Sony-Trinitron-25-inch-TV-Video-complete-with-stand_W0QQitemZ290374148654QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_AudioTVElectronics_Video_Televisions?hash=item439ba5e22e is the type of tv i'm talking about,

[DJ_Izumi]

That's a standard 4:3 ratio TV.  o.O

[gazz292]

ahhhhh, just it seems a lot squarer than the acrade monitor i have, or are arcade monitors not 4:3 ratio?

[Ginsu Victim]

That's a standard 4:3 ratio TV.  o.O

+1

[DJ_Izumi]

ahhhhh, just it seems a lot squarer than the acrade monitor i have, or are arcade monitors not 4:3 ratio?

Untill recently, with few exceptions, every arcade monitor has been 4:3.  Or in the case of vertical games, 3:4.

I really, REALLY don't think you'll find a practical 1:1 square TV.

[Ginsu Victim]

5:4 is about as close as you'll find, and that's still not square.

[Jack Burton]

I want this in my cab!



205 Square Inches!

Serious mode: The reason the TV looks squarer than your arcade monitor is because you have probably seen your arcade monitor without it's bezel.  Underneath the whole CRT seems a bit rounder.

Also if your monitor is older it might actually be just a tiny bit rounder than a newer TV.