Looking at TV's for my cabinet, round tube vs flat ???

[cmoses]

Looking at TV's to put in my cabinet, either a 25" or 27".  When looking at 27's I have seen some in round tube and others as flat.  Any thoughts on which is better for a arcade cabinet?  I see that Happ's offers both rounded and straight plastic bezels for 27".

I am putting it in a old MKII cabinet and will probably have to de-case it if I go 27" as they seem to have the speakers on the side.  Any difference in de-casing a rounded tube as opposed to a flat?

Thanks

[Jack Burton]

I think the difference in image quality is minimal, and would go with whichever television was easiest to fit and secure in the cabinet. 

I don't know about TV's but I some flat screen CRT computer monitors have a nice metal housing around the chassis after you take off the back cover.

[cmoses]

I really want to go with a 27" and it seems that they would all need to be decased in order to fit my MKII cabinet.  I will either build a shelf into the cabinet or if possible use the mounting brackets that are already there.  With a 27" I will probably have to modify the ones that are there. 

If figure flat may be a little better, seems as though it was a big selling point back in the tube TV days.

Anyone else with thoughts or opinions.

[fronty]

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[richms]

Most flatscreen TVs have rubbish focus and convergance at the edges - simply because people buying CRT's dont care much for image quality since they are being cheap

The older sonys and panasonics were good in that respect, the off brand crap is just that.. IMO get curved - more authentic and less places to break since there is no need for the amount of work on the deflection to get a square image on something that is not square from the perspecive of the beam hitting it.

[Blanka]

The flat ones are from Sony (trinitron) and Mitsubishi (diamondtron). Those companies made all the flat tubes, also for other brands. They have a different shadowmask thus a different image. Its not a real mask, but thousands of wires running from top to bottom. As the wires are on tension, these screens do not suffer from distortion caused by temperature differences. The images are more rectangular and a little sharper.
The curved displays are mostly slot mask or tridot mask, which gives more fuzziness.

Both will focus good at arcade resolutions. Trinitron corners will look fuzzier only at 1024x768 or above. Not a big problem here. The curved displays look more authentic, but the flat ones have better blacks, less reflection and easier bezeling.

[TOK]

I used a 27" flat screen Toshiba. This is an old pic from when the cab was still in progress, but it still looks great. Hooked up to component in with ATI Radeon 9550.

[Ummon]

What I've found is that one really has to see it up close an personal to know, especially if inexperienced. I've taken pictures of some of mine, for example where they're in S-video mode, that don't look bad, but having seen the display in person I know it ain't that great.

[cmoses]

I got a 27" flat tube Sanyo that has component inputs.  I will be trimming down the TV case to fit it in the cabinet.  I will be using it with my Nvidia card and the component converter it came with.