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MKtrill
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Has anyone tried out 8liners.com?
Any good monitor recommendations?
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Hows a 28" wide screen monitor supposed to fit in a 25" cabinet? You can just barely shoe horn a 27" CRT in there. I dont think theres enough room for a 28". Then you have to deal with the signal and how to modify it so that the 28" LCD will display it.
Snarly
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28" lcd monitor size just fits in the space of 25" crt
But you need to measure your cabinet.
I have one cabinet that is just over 25" wide and won't fit this...but the other is 27.5" wide and will fit. The 28" lcd is 26.5" wide and will fit.
I bot a 25" lcd 16x9 for the smaller of the 2 cabinets because it would not fit the 28". I got it at Geeks.com for $149 shipped. This cabinet is being converted to a 1315 in 1 and the lcd looks great with these games. You just have to set the display source type and no converter needed.
I did buy a converter for $40 from jammaboards.com. The larger cabinet will be a single game featuring Tekken 3, Street Fighter, or Mortal Combat boards I will rotate.
But you need to measure your cabinet.
I have one cabinet that is just over 25" wide and won't fit this...but the other is 27.5" wide and will fit. The 28" lcd is 26.5" wide and will fit.
I bot a 25" lcd 16x9 for the smaller of the 2 cabinets because it would not fit the 28". I got it at Geeks.com for $149 shipped. This cabinet is being converted to a 1315 in 1 and the lcd looks great with these games. You just have to set the display source type and no converter needed.
I did buy a converter for $40 from jammaboards.com. The larger cabinet will be a single game featuring Tekken 3, Street Fighter, or Mortal Combat boards I will rotate.
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RetroHacker
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If you do a search here, there was a review of the 8liners chassis. General consensus was that it works OK, but the picture has a softer focus than a better monitor, and there was a fair bit more blooming[1] than some other monitors. So, it would be OK for some games, but more annoying for others.
If you're dead set on buying a brand new monitor, I'd say just go and buy one of the Makvisions from gamefixer. It won't be as nice as a K7000, but, I think it's probably as good as you're going to get if you really, really must have new.
-Ian
[1] blooming - when the picture changes size depending on how bright the image being displayed is. So, when the game goes from a light scene to a dark scene, the whole picture changes size. It's caused by insufficient regulation in the B+ supply.
