Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Monitor/Video Forum => Topic started by: jefftse on April 04, 2007, 11:30:06 am
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Well, here is my story. When I start planning my MAME project, I was sure that I needed an arcade monitor. Then I saw a betson 27" on ebay $200 plus $100. I jumped right on it. I should be getting the monitor tomorrow!!! I also realized I have a 33" sony tube in my bedroom and I was trying to get rid of it for a long time. so I plug my laptop to the s-video input. It didn't look too bad.
I can always save that betson for another project like "Car Racing Cab" or sell it to someone else. Also I will need to buy AVGA in order to make it to work probably (another $100).
Do you think Betson 27" is much better than the 33" sony tube for MAME?
FYI, i"m building a 4 play CP cabinet.
Thanks
Jeff
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An arcade monitor will always look better than a TV. I hope your cabinet is a showcase style because you are going to get a headache with that huge of a TV.
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An arcade monitor will always look better than a TV.
Is that an absolute, even when talking about multi-purpose cabs running things like PC games and console emulators? I would also be wanting to hook up a PS2 and/or Xbox to it seldomly...
As you could probably tell I havent made my monitor purchase yet and I'm STILL going through the pros and cons..
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An arcade monitor will always look better than a TV.
Is that an absolute, even when talking about multi-purpose cabs running things like PC games and console emulators? I would also be wanting to hook up a PS2 and/or Xbox to it seldomly...
Well, if you want to hook up consoles to it, that might be reason enough to use a TV. Otherwise you will have to get some type of converter to feed an NTSC signal (s-video for example) into an RGB arcade monitor as well as a switch of some sort to select the various inputs. As for console emulation, they all look fantastic to me on an arcade monitor (they also looked very good on a TV though).
Here's my general rule of thumb opinion...if you already have a good spare TV sitting around, use that to get started (you can always go for an arcade monitor later). If you are going to have to buy a display either way, spend a little extra and get an arcade monitor. Just my 2 cents.
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I'm surprised at the price of the Betson. Could you post a link to the auction?
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I'm surprised at the price of the Betson. Could you post a link to the auction?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=001&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&viewitem=&item=110105737739&rd=1&rd=1
here u go!
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Thank you. Looks like a smokin deal. He still had the box, I would've gotten him to ship like the way I got my Billabs: set-up a fedex account and they picked it up. He didn't still have the packing but was gracious enough to get some. With that, the shipping came to $90, cross-country. I mighta grabbed this had I been looking. Alas.
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Yea, I got UPS to pick it up.. I got it on thursday but I haven't opened it yet.