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Monitor Question Betson or Wells?
rdowdy95:
Thanks guys.
Shoegazer:
I had a WG D9400 which I had to exchange THREE times due to major screen warping issues, and never had a monitor that looked right. Eventually I took a full return - thankfully, their customer service was top notch.
I looked at the Betson monitors but in the end decided on Bil Labs. They are just better monitors all-around - first of all, they support 1024x768 resolution (the other two I believe are still limited to 800x600) which makes navigating Windows/MAMEUI much easier, and also makes vector games and game artwork look much cleaner, as you can imagine. They are also much lighter, which made mine a lot easier to fit into my cabinet, and mine had no warping at all from the first unit I was shipped.
I'm not sure what happened to Bil Labs - I can't find them online anywhere (did they go belly-up?). If you can find one of theirs though, either on Ebay or perhaps even here somewhere, I'd highly recommend it. Do a search for their monitors on this forum - other people have mentioned and praised their monitors as well.
Hope it helps. Good luck..
Shoegazer
wbassett:
Bil Labs is strange... when I go to their site all I get is-
"Why are you here?"
It's a white screen with just plain text in the upper left corner. At first I thought maybe someone hacked their site but I just checked it again.
Anyway, this sounds like a similar monitor
http://www.happcontrols.com/monitors/49271700.htm
It's also 1024x768 native.
retrometro:
--- Quote from: wbassett on August 24, 2008, 08:34:31 pm ---Anyway, this sounds like a similar monitor
http://www.happcontrols.com/monitors/49271700.htm
It's also 1024x768 native.
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I guess in this case you're trading a higher resolution for the inability to go below 30KHz horizontal freq.
Ummon:
Yeah, that's a VGA monitor - does VGA/SVGA.
Don't know what happened to Billabs - though it doesn't matter, as they stopped making 27" digital multisyncs a year ago.
--- Quote from: retrometro on August 24, 2008, 09:21:46 am ---The cab I have now had a WG D9200 that lasted about 6 years or so. I think something went wrong w/ one of the boards so I sold it for parts and got about $100 out of it for parts.
I've replaced it with a WG D9400 and it's been used weekly for a year and has had no problems. The D9400 has a few upgrades from the D9200 and is a direct replacement model.
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I remember you saying this but you hadn't before said when you got your D9400. A year is a decent testing period.
--- Quote from: Shoegazer on August 24, 2008, 06:56:02 pm ---I had a WG D9400 which I had to exchange THREE times due to major screen warping issues, and never had a monitor that looked right. Eventually I took a full return - thankfully, their customer service was top notch.
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...however, this was recent, right?
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