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LCD display for marquee, anyone ever done that?

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RandyT:

I understand that this would costs some bucks to do, but I have always wanted to use a widescreen format TV wide enough to stretch across most of the width of the cab. 

The way I was thinking about doing it was to de-case the unit, cut a slot in the top of the cabinet and slide the screen into the marquee area.  You would then just use the bottom portion of the screen to display your marquee images.  Of course, the rest of the screen is still sticking up above the cab, so put it to use!  You can display the instruction cards for the game, run arcade related animations, use it to display the name of your cab, whatever.  If you do it right, it would look like a narrow LCD sign sitting on top of the cab, while the marquee would look like a marquee, but changeable!

Aside from that, I think the projector Idea is cool if the logistics can be hammered out. :)

RandyT

ChadTower:

Interesting concept... if you decase it, you end up having to make a custom case for just the exposed bit.  You'd also have to account for the width of the ceiling of the cab being "unusable space" on the LCD.

RandyT:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on June 25, 2007, 10:20:27 am ---Interesting concept... if you decase it, you end up having to make a custom case for just the exposed bit.  You'd also have to account for the width of the ceiling of the cab being "unusable space" on the LCD.

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That's true.  De-casing would probably be required though, in order allow for closer placement to the bottom of the marquee area, etc...  Perhaps the case could be cut to create the frame for the upper section?  Honestly though, I would just make a new frame and save the original parts just in case I decided I needed the screen for something else down the road. :)

The unusable area of the screen would just be one of those things that would be necessary to complete the effect.  The operation of such a thing would also require a second video source that was controllable via a front end, but that's something that will be common to all normal video methods.

RandyT

ChadTower:

Maybe you wouldn't need a second video source... you could make your own custom content instead that took into account the gap and the two different "screen areas", one source feeding both with merged source material.  Possibly more work than two individual sources, though.

If you wanted the factory case to stay on you could route out the appropriate insets in the marquee area to move it forward some.  A little creative woodworking could probably get it quite close.

RandyT:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on June 25, 2007, 12:13:17 pm ---Maybe you wouldn't need a second video source... you could make your own custom content instead that took into account the gap and the two different "screen areas", one source feeding both with merged source material.  Possibly more work than two individual sources, though.

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That's the whole idea.:)   I meant a second video source overall in order to drive the monitor.  2 sources required, one for the game and one for the top screen.  But as I stated, it would be no different than any other method employing an actual video screen.

RandtyT

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