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Title: Inexpensive, smaller, LCD displays?
Post by: HeadRusch on July 15, 2004, 09:38:17 pm

Guys, does anyone know of a decent source for LCD "monitors" that can be used to make mini-mames?

I'm talking LCD's that do, say, 800x600 and are maybe 10-12" diagonal tops....

Am i going to run into major ghosting issues with MAME games if I were to make a "mini mame" using one of these as a display?

I've seen 12" LCD displays as low as $150......and I suppose I could use one of those, but no sense spending th emoney if the image is going to be abyssmal....

Thoughts?

I've got a small 12" 1024x768 monitor here that I could probably get to be even smaller if I removed the case, but its still on the big and clunky side....

Title: Re:Inexpensive, smaller, LCD displays?
Post by: mohrt on July 15, 2004, 10:32:04 pm

here's a start:

http://www.digitalww.com/b3.htm

Title: Re:Inexpensive, smaller, LCD displays?
Post by: mohrt on July 15, 2004, 10:34:46 pm

and here's a real nice one. not so cheap though.

http://earthlcd.com/XLK5002.htm

Title: Re:Inexpensive, smaller, LCD displays?
Post by: HeadRusch on July 16, 2004, 11:14:08 am

Hmmm.....looks like I'm not going that route ;)

I wonder if anyone has tried any of the 12" cheapie LCD's...the ones with like 100ms refresh rates that you could never use for a FPS but could use just fine, potentially, for MAME......

I mean, my only concern is buying a $150 flatscreen LCD monitor for $150 bucks and finding out its screen refresh is so slow that games are unusable on it, nad its only good for word processing and web-browsing......

Title: Re:Inexpensive, smaller, LCD displays?
Post by: SirPoonga on July 16, 2004, 11:21:33 am

Ebay?  HowardC just picked up a Gamboy Advance portable screen on ebay for a good price.