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DJ_Izumi:

So uhh, why not just mount a 16:9 monitor in your cab, but have it so the sides are covered behind the bezel or whatever, feed it a 4:3 signal and set the TV to not resize and instead pillar box?  It seems to me that'd be a HELL of a lot easier, though you'd need to spare some space on teh edge of the wood going around the monitor so it could cover up those edges.

If I was repairing active use coinops from older years and wanted to move to LCDs, I'd look into that option instead.

Or heck, just pillar box without covering the pillars.  Those 16:9 screens are gonna come in handy for newer things, SFIV for example.

Blanka:

I did it already, without much succes:
http://www.petitiononline.com/43lcdtv/petition.html

To refurbish old 4:3 vertical cabs with 19 inch screens, THANK GOD, we still can buy the excellent gaming-proof HP LP2065.

Blanka:


--- Quote from: J.Max on January 01, 2010, 03:44:50 pm ---Even 10,000 customers wouldn't be a blip on their radar.

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10000 pieces is a solid market and is good enough to set up a line. How many NEC 2690Wuxi's are sold you think?

I think the focus should not be on cabinet builders, but on console-lovers. Within 5 years, nobody will be able to hook up a composite, scart or S-video (or even a antenna-input!) cable to a new TV or monitor anymore. They will only offer HDMI and DP. Yet thousands of NES-es are traded every day around the world.
What we need then is good 4:3 LCD TV's with hookups for all our old consoles, fast enough to work with Nintendo ZAPPERS! So we should get help at the Nintendo 8-bit, Genesis and Atari 2600 communities.

I vote for an
- H-IPS 1200x1600 screen of 27 inch
- input lag <10ms
- inputs: 5x cinch, 3x S-video, 2x component, 2x scart (RGB/S-vid), 2x antenna, and 2xHDMI for those retro-modernists.
- Selectable blocky, XSAL, trinitron, and tridot upscaling.
- Minimal black flat bezel, for clean looks in house, or for easy mounting.
- Automatic input selection and remote controllable


DJ_Izumi:

I'm not ENTIRELY sure it'll disappear THAT quickly.  Many models of Xbox 360 and all models of Wii will only use component/S-Video/Composite.

But even if that IS the case, I'm pretty sure that a few companies will start producing RF/Composite/S-Video/Component to HDMI converters that will fill a need for a lot of people using legacy hardware on newer TVs.

Blanka:


--- Quote from: DJ_Izumi on January 02, 2010, 09:06:23 am ---But even if that IS the case, I'm pretty sure that a few companies will start producing RF/Composite/S-Video/Component to HDMI converters that will fill a need for a lot of people using legacy hardware on newer TVs.

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Sure, but that means extra boxes, and especially converters are among the ugliest. Not to mention they never include the AC brick, so that means another box!

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