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Title: inclined screens
Post by: Stormdemon on October 17, 2003, 04:58:01 pm

Most Arcade cabinets have inclined monitors. The reason for this is ergonomics: it's more confortable, specially with upright cabinets. With sitdown cabinets, I don't consider much angle is necessary, specially with large screens. In fact I've noticed that japanese sitdown cabinets force the users to a posture that is not very natural, too straight, coming close to the excessively inclined screen. Do you think that the inclination of monitors in cabinets has also to do with avoiding straight radiation to the player? If you notice, although the player can see the screen, his head is not on the way of the screen radiation, supposing that it's parallel to the screen. I don't know if I've explained this well, so, if it's not clear I can add some pictures.

Title: Re:inclined screens
Post by: Ghoward on October 17, 2003, 08:00:01 pm

pictures please

Title: Re:inclined screens
Post by: hooded_paladin on October 17, 2003, 09:13:53 pm

Do people get cancer by sitting in front of TV's?  No I don't think so.  (Just obesity, illiteracy and heart attacks...)

Monitors are definitely not inclined to avoid radiation.  Just bad ergonomics I bet.

Japanese people aren't even that tall on average.  why point it towards the sky?  I dunno.

Title: Re:inclined screens
Post by: Serpent on October 18, 2003, 03:58:38 am

Please read my post: Ergonomics of Arcade cabinets, where I try to explain these problems and how I'm studying the desing of my cabinet.

Title: Re:inclined screens
Post by: Serpent on October 18, 2003, 04:01:56 am

BTW, this is my new nickname (previously Stormdemon). I'm the the same person :)