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Arcade Cabinet Glass - Tint or No Tint?

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Knievel:
This has been my experience..

I had tinted glass over the PC monitor on my Neon machine initially but I ended up changing it. I found it took away too much color/vibrancy. With all the picture controls on a PC monitor the tint isn't really required. You can get the same effect by fine tuning the monitor.

On a real arcade monitor the controls for the picture are usually quite limited. To get the nice bright colors you want you need to start cranking the contrast/brightness, then everything starts getting fuzzy and harsh. That's where the tinted glass really shines, gets rid of all that.

BORIStheBLADE:
so do you guys turn up the brightness on the monitors alot or does it not take much to make bright enough with tinted glass?

rockin_rick:
Another benefit of tint, IMO is that it hides the non-image stuff behind the glass, like the bezel of the monitor.  Makes it seem as if the image is the only thing under there.

Rick

superbigjay:
real tinted glass too!

Also, like rockin_rick said, it will hide minor imperfections behind the glass.
Jay

TOK:
Tinted, regardless of monitor type.

I also used the auto tint trick on an original non-tinted glass bezel that I wanted to save (due to the screened-on art). It's tricky to apply, but it has looked great for 2+ years.


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