I recently just had a rare-gem of a monitor blow out on me (it was a cheap 27 inch CRT VGA monitor I found on craigslist. Typically they're hard to find any bigger than 21") and now I realize it's time to pony-up. And I do mean "pony" since I'm not really into dropping 500+ on a monitor so it can do 31Khz (speaking of which, can you display 60fps on 31Khz or am I stupid on that one?) and I'll likely be going the TV route.
My current graphics card for this MAME cabinet has DVI, HDMI, and VGA. Would you guys recommend using a transcoder to go from HDMI to component (red green blue RCA) or get a new card that does S-video natively? Which do you think would produce better picture on a tube?