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Question for MAMErs with large CRT televisions as their display
leapinlew:
I used a 32" Television. I built a stand for it:
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I was paranoid that anything less than it's own support structure wouldn't provide enough support. I see plenty of people using 27" and smaller televisions mounted inside a cabinet using 2x4's.
I guess it depends on the size of your television. I have a 36" Sony Wega that weighs nearly 400lbs. I can't imagine using it - but I may try. >:D
DJ_Izumi:
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--- Quote from: DJ_Izumi on April 19, 2008, 04:30:43 am ---I think the question would be what are you using to drive the TV? Composite can be pretty greesy. S-Video can be a fair bit better, but if you can, will the TV let you do component? Component gets you some damn nice 480i video. :)
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It depends on the video card I can find. I don't want to spend too much on it, but my TV is capable of component, composite, and S-video, so I'm shooting for a card capable of component out.
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Yeah, don't even THINK about anything other than Component if your TV supports it. Component is the closest you can get to an actual arcade CRT due to the distinct color signal separation that Component is able to provide. Everything else is just icky in comparison.
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A great many graphic cards have component output support, you just need to get the output adaptor for it as they usually don't come with the card. For ATi based cards you can generally get the adaptors from their site or on eBay. If you notice, many Video cards with 'S-video out' actually have 7 pin svideo jacks rather than 4 pin in the card, meaning it can do a lot more than Svideo if asked too. :)
tophatne1:
I'm almost ready to hook up my 27" Toshiba CRT television to my new MAME cab but I don't know what graphics card to get.
My computer that I want to hook up to:
Dell Dimension 8300HT
P4
2.6 GHZ
1GB RAM
120G HD
The graphics card slot is AGP. I know I can find a card with S-video easy enough but I want to have the best quality possible on a CRT TV. I have S-Video and a ton of the red,white, and yellow audio video jacks. Is there a card that can hook up to the TV with the red,white,and yellow jacks? Would the quality be better?
I'm confused on the whole thing. I want to get this up and running! Please give me some much needed advise.
Thanks!
DJ_Izumi:
Quick run down of video signal quality! :D
First of all, as I hope we all know, the red and white jacks together are just left and right stereo audio.
The 'yellow jack' is composite video, this is the lowest possible quality. Especially noticeable on a 27" TV that in an arcade situation you're only 1-3 feet from. This is cause it's jamming an entire video signal down a SINGLE line.
'S-video', also called Super Video keeps the video seperated into two different signals. It's basicly like two cables built into one, that's why it has 4 pins. This allows for more signal bandwidth and thusly higher quality video. If you have the option to use S-video over composite (yellow jack). GO FOR IT.
Component Video is when you see at trio of red, green, and blue video jacks. This is the best analog video for a standard TV usually. You could get RGB but most TVs won't take that. Like S-Video the signal is seperated, but not into 2 seperate signals but 3, allowing even more bandwidth and a much better video signal. If you can go for component, go for it. It's as good as an RGB signal, but you probably won't tell the difference. :)
For those of you with ATi cards with a 7pin Svideo output port, you can get this output adaptor instead and get compontent. http://www.shopati.ca/product.asp?sku=2550138
That would be for most cards, my X800 however is 9pin, that woudl be this adaptor: http://www.shopati.ca/product.asp?sku=2766464
tophatne1:
That all made since to me. Thanks!
S-Video for me it looks like.
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