is this an upgrade or downgrade?

[tony.silveira]

hey guys,

i found an hd crt 27 inch tv, rca d27f750t that has dvi input and puts out 1080i and it has a pure flat screen (which is great for my touchscreen overlay).

i'm currently running a betson 27" monitor, native res 800x600 but running with soft15 and pushing 1024x768 interlaced which kills my act-labs gun support.

so my question is, the tv runs a native 1080i, would that be a better screen for me?  even if the guns still don't work due to the "i", the flat screen would be nice as my touch screen would sit right on top of the glass.

anyone have any thoughts?

thanks

[MonMotha]

If your only "good" metric is "the more pixels the better", then yes, it's probably an upgrade.

However, I've found that a great many CRT HDTVs are actually fixed mode at 1080i.  Anything else gets scaled up.  In this sense it's a major downgrade.  The monitor is essentially unusable at anything other than 1080i except through scaling in one place or another.

Is there any reason you really need 1024x768 or higher?  Essentially no arcade games run at that res.  On the tube used on the Betson monitor, even 800x600 was starting to push the limits of what the tube could resolve.  I wouldn't think 1024x768 (especially interlaced) would actually look any better.  Stuff would be smaller (unless you're adjusting the OS DPI setting to compensate, which I doubt you are considering it basically doesn't work in WinXP), but it would just be blurrier.

[tony.silveira]

should have added, I run all my emu's and FE at my desktop res of 1024x768. 

I also use the pc as a pc and mirror the display via hdmi to my receiver/projector.  if I switch res per game/emu, then the receiver hiccups and I lose video until it resynchs.  I tried running for a while at 800x600 but found the desktop to small.

so with that said, always running at 1024x768, what are your thought?

thanks so much for the input!