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Main => Monitor/Video Forum => Topic started by: abispac on April 09, 2020, 02:12:10 pm
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So after a year of searching my Technician star, i finally found him, a 60+ years old guy that can fix any crt arcade monitor with his eyes closed. Ima take my electrohome g07 monitor with him to fix it, but he tolde, he has 7 21inch flat crt monitor that ,according to him , had even better resolution than most regular curved monitors. Since i forgot to ask him for the brand, i just want to ask the experts here, are flat crt arcades a thing? he wants 35dlls for each monitor. So im thinking of even pawning my tablesaw just to get thos emonitors, i just want to make sure, hes not going to sell me tv monitors LOL, thanks for any advice.
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Secretly Jennifer would have no issue using such a monitor, and don't believe the guy is wrong, those arcade monitors have the RGB input...The problem comes as a conversion, they utilized a installation kit, and the bezel doesn't match, and needs to be replaced also...But like I said earlier, Oh heck ya, Jenn would do it.
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Not so sure about pawning my saw however...I love that thing.
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Flat screen CRTs suck big time.
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Not so sure about pawning my saw however...I love that thing.
Ill problably find anotherway
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Flat screen CRTs suck big time.
He says they are better resolution monitor, but i also think ill past if is not the case, i can also get 19 inchs regular monitors for 10dlls each, so ill probably bite on those better.
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Guess it would depend on what the seller means by resolution. Most people think it refers to CGA, EGA, VGA, etc. But some see resolution as how close individual phosphor dots (of the same color) are together, which can make one monitor look a tad clearer (with a smaller dot pitch). I remember buying VGA/SVGA monitors in the early 90's and trying to get the ones with a better (smaller number) dot pitch. I didn't notice a HUGE difference.
Maybe think of what you will use the monitors for. MAME cabinet, older original arcade pcb's, pc games, etc. If all of the above, you'd probably like a higher res, or multi-res capable monitor.
Maybe some real gurus can chime in. But I would think if you're installing them in a specific game, let's say a late 80's-early 90's arcade, you'd probably just like a standard resolution 15Khz monitor to match what they originally came with. A late 90's game, like Gauntlet Legends, you'd want a medium resolution 25Khz monitor. If you wanted to run it in a MAME cabinet to play some older arcade games on an emulator (say with an ArcadeVGA card), while also having the ability to play some pc games, you might want a 31Khz CRT monitor.
I'm no expert, so correct me if I have misled anyone here.