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25" tv or 20" computer monitor?
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I am in the process if building a lusid based cabinet and I am ready to mount the monitor and the two options I have on hand right now are right now are a 20" Compaq crt or a 25" tv. I definitely like the idea of the tv for its size but the major disadvantage to it is that it only has a coaxial input so it will need to go through an s-video to rca adapter and an rca to coaxial adapter (all of witch I have on hand) and possibly needing to manually turn it on and off (i haven't checked yet)
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If all the tv has available is coaxial input then definitely go with the PC monitor.
The PC monitor will have RGB input, which will looks miles better than the coax.
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This vote would depend greatly on the TV. If it had component or at least S-video I'd say go for it. But larger screens make composite video look worse and worse, if you could only do composite or RF, I'd vote for the PC monitor.
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thanks for the replies. I will go with the monitor for now but I will make it easily removable so it could put in something bigger later on.
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