Re: Answers within For everyone else: Why TV's are the way to go.

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: : I believe most of the "classics" use a 19" monitor. My cabinet is an old Missile Command cabinet (1981) and its monitor is 19". However, a 19" PC monitor is not the same size. A 19" arcade monitor as well as tv are 19" corner to corner. A pc monitor however is different. To actually have a 19" viewable pc monitor you'd probably need a 21" monitor. Very costly$$$. Another thing to consider is this: pc monitors are more square than a tv or arcade monitor meaning the width to height ratio is not the same. I don't know anything about cocktails. Don't think I've ever even seen one in person. Consider this: If I were to start from scratch I would have went with a TV. Why? : : 1) TV's cost less (especially used) : : 2) Because of this you are likely to get a much bigger tv than arcade monitor for the same price (i.e. Wal*Mart has a RCA 25" TV for $200. Wells Gardner 19" arcade monitor - $300. You can actually get a 27" TV cheaper than a 19" monitor.) : : 3) A TV has the look of a real arcade monitor. Both have resolutions of 320 X 200 and will virtually look the same. The only difference is in the fact that arcade monitor are pure RGB and TV's are different. Not much of a difference in my opinion. : : 4) You can run Windows on an arcade monitor with any video card w/tv out. This isn't even possible with arcade monitors (if it is it's rare). : : 5) Volume control. Another advantage. : : 6) Way easier to handle. Who wants to worried about getting zapped? Gotta worry about hooking up transformers and this and that and blah blah blah. : : 7) Brightness, Contrast, etc, etc, much easier to manage. : : 8) Hook up stereo sound, playstations, dreamcasts, etc., etc. : : Get the picture? : I'd have to agree with Fultra and Prophet, TV's do not look quite like an arcade monitor even though they have roughly the same resolution. There are TV's which when hooked up look more like an arcade monitor though. If you get a TV with a digital comb filter in it the filter will help to clear up some of the bleeding and noise you get between lines that Prophet is talking about. The drawback to this is that any TV manufacturer that offers a digital comb filter generally only puts it into models with dual tuner picture in picture. This becomes a disadvantage due to the price increasing because of the extra features that you wouldn't use in a cab. So the advantage of TVs being cheaper for the size goes away when you have a TV with a fairly comparable picture quality. Prophet might disagree with this picture quality being comparable though (I never hooked my consoles up to monitor for better quality). Hope this helps : Odie

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