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Blanka:


--- Quote from: Jack Burton on December 11, 2009, 02:30:46 am ---4:3 monitors are easy to find these days.  Especially old TV and PC CRTS.

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Maybe there is not much room in the cab. 4:3 LCD's are very hard to find (unless you don't mind 5:4). A widescreen LCD looks fine if the black level is dark enough.  And we want out portion of Darius now and then. Widescreen is very welcome for that game :D

If you want to mount an LCD vertical, check the panel type first. TN panels can't be put vertical, as it will look horrible. Make sure you have a IPS, MVA or PVA panel.
Also check the mame-version. Some don't work well with rotated windows-desktops. Sometimes you get borders on all sides (shrinked image), sometimes MAME rotates again, resulting in a rotated desktop after Mame use.

robC:

Problem with 4:3 monitors are that I couldn't find one larger than 20" or so. I would have loved to have like a 24" 4:3 monitor, but couldn't find anything.

My thoughts on widescreen LCDs: I wanted to have a screen large enough that my vertical games would still be a good size, so I went with a big 28" HannsG monitor. It has a lot of real estate even on cropped vertical games, and is especially large for horizontal games. You can set your preferences to crop games or not in horizontal mode. Personally, (I am not a total purist) I have been running all my Horizontal games at fullscreen so they are stretched a bit. I play mainly on my own cab, so I don't even notice it anymore, and it certainly does not affect gameplay. I like how they fill that huge amount of real estate with no black bars.

After upgrading my computer, I also now play all my PC (mostly FPS) games on the cab, and they do take advantage of the widescreen. So now I am especially glad to have gone with the big monitor in there.

Dizzle:

I run a 32" widescreen on my pedestal setup and I have no regrets.  Some games I'll run with black bars, but most of the other ones I play on it I stretch.  To be honest, the stretching doesnt bother me at all.  I'm not a purist either though - if I was, I probably wouldn't be using an LCD display to begin with.



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