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OverRide:
Randy's explination is great.

I always thought tinted plexi/glass was only for hiding the monitor edges where there might not be a bezel. Then I acquired a Arkanoid machine with tinted plexi and loved the way the monitor looked through it. I then added smoked plexi to my cocktail machine and it looked a lot better IMO.
Sorry, I don't know the tint %.

Marsupial:

--- Quote from: RandyT on August 15, 2010, 12:51:23 pm ---
The third reason is that on a 27" horizontally mounted monitor, a 19" vertical game (there were lots of them) appears at almost actual size.  But the thing that always spoiled the look of those games was the fact that they looked "pasted" into the center of a monitor that was turned the wrong way.  With the dark acrylic, there is no indication of monitor orientation.  19" vertical games just appear in the center of the view window of the cab, at pretty much actual size.


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I might still be working on my first cab, but I too came to that same conclusion. Altough I am not using a 27 inch monitor, so my 19 inchers are smaller, the fact that you can't (or barely) see the rest of the monitor makes that it looks 10 times better.

The cab I modified into MAME is an operation wolf; the dark glass came from it. Its very dark, but I have no way of knowing how dark... but you barely see the black bezel. Makes great visuals.

BamBam:

--- Quote from: releasedtruth on August 13, 2010, 01:52:54 pm ---I went with 14 several years ago and on my CRT it really was a good fit. The screen is relatively close to your eyes so it relieved strain for long play and pops colors on a bright CRT. I'd consider trying 31 on my next cab

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I think it's a matter of personal taste.  I have had graylite 31 and like it, but always thought something lighter maybe better.  The 31 does, however, do an excellent job of hiding bezels etc. 

RandyT:

--- Quote from: BamBam on August 16, 2010, 07:18:51 am --- The 31 does, however, do an excellent job of hiding bezels etc. 

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Perhaps hiding an actual bezel, but not so excellent at hiding the fact that none is present, or that the monitor is physically in the incorrect orientation for half the games.  It is a matter of preference, but primarily in what one is preferring to accomplish.

31% is actually quite a lot of transmission.  If the monitor face is uncoated (most of the early gaming monitors were) you get a 4% reflection from the polished glass face of the monitor.  So darker tint, because external light  passes through the window twice, is much better at controlling reflections from the monitor glass as well.  The lighter one goes, the more likely it is that these additional reflections will find their way into your view.  Unless your CRT has an AR coating, which will help quite a bit.

RandyT

XNIF:
I am having a hard time finding tinted glass in the netherlands. I mean everyone has it, but nobody knows how much light transmission it has. I cannot just buy these things without knowing what i am buying. The plan is tempered grey tinted glas around 45% for over a trinitron. Anyone knows a company in the Netherlands of ships to me?

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