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DGP:
Yeah you know they are getting hard to find (25") when Clay Cowgill buys my 25" requiring a cap kit + scratches on the tube face (he is a partial owner of THE best arcade in my area... Ground Control, as well as being known for so many other arcade related items). Looking back now I should have kept it since it was a working WG chassis. We just had 4 non-working but complete 25's show up on local CL for $100 but they were gone instantly (within a few hours). :banghead:

I am on the lookout for nice 25's but it's feeling like wishful thinking at this point, especially since I am after a med-res or tri-sync (can't bring myself to spend $600 for a new one when the entire cab is worth under $1K). :dizzy:

Jason

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: paigeoliver on October 28, 2013, 09:34:18 pm ---A 19" 4:3 LCD arcade monitor is a different beast entirely, but one of those costs as much as the game is worth. I basically do arcade monitors for a living and I have yet to even see a 19" arcade LCD anywhere beside the one auction where all the Illinois 8-liner operators dumped their stock when Illinois made them not just illegal but super illegal (there were 4 brand new cabs there that had them). 

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I see them all the time in the arcades.  They are regularly rolling into classic games in arcades here that have large numbers of old games.  I know Pinball Wizard has a bunch of them.  I have even seen them showing up in Atari vector games using the VectorVGA.  Pinball Wizard has one in their Tempest and even Funspot has one that rotates in when a 6100 dies in their Atari row.  I've seen it in and out of their Space Duel over the last couple of years.  Obviously the vector games are using one specific converter.  I'm not sure on the raster games if they are using converters/VGA or straight compatible arcade LCDs.

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