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Author Topic: any large 4:3 LCD's?  (Read 1755 times)

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any large 4:3 LCD's?
« on: December 01, 2007, 11:17:02 pm »
would be much nicer than moving this giant crt in my cab.
though i dont think the market ever got that big of lcd before the widescreens took off.

and pc or tv lcd's, doesnt matter.

edit, and i mean larger than 19"
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Re: any large 4:3 LCD's?
« Reply #1 on: December 02, 2007, 01:31:55 am »
ok i've found 20's, a 20.1 and even a 21, but i guess its safe to say there is nothing larger than that :(. not as cheap as i was hoping either. apparently 4:3 isn't quite that dead yet.

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Re: any large 4:3 LCD's?
« Reply #2 on: December 02, 2007, 05:31:58 am »
the largest i have seen 4:3 is 23",looks like everything is gonna be 16:9 soon

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Re: any large 4:3 LCD's?
« Reply #3 on: December 02, 2007, 11:46:18 am »
i wonder about using a splitter type thing. 15" lcds are cheap and using 4 could fill the entire space in the cab.
need to look them up though. anyone know how well they work and prices?
have to find just the right screens to take apart for no seam though.

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Re: any large 4:3 LCD's?
« Reply #4 on: December 02, 2007, 12:38:34 pm »
i wonder about using a splitter type thing. 15" lcds are cheap and using 4 could fill the entire space in the cab.
need to look them up though. anyone know how well they work and prices?
have to find just the right screens to take apart for no seam though.

By their very design, I don't think you're going to find LCD's with pixels all the way to the edge. I spent weeks looking for just such a panel and all I wanted was a small 10" panel.  The glass has too much of a tendency to chip around the edges. So any pixels at the edge are going to be ruined. Most LCD's are going to be mounted in a frame, so there's no real incentive to have pixels run all the way to the edge when they're going to be covered.

Solutions to bridge the seams are going to be too expensive or overly complex for an arcade cab.

I think it ---smurfing--- blows that everyone is doing widescreen LCD's. I was all Wal*Mart last night and only about half the wide screens were actually 16:9. The others were some sort of unmentionable widescreen format. Probably like my 16:10 laptop screen. I get letterboxed regardless of what I play.