Has anyone tried an LCD monitor for a 48 in 1?

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Or has anyone tried an lcd monitor for any arcade game? I am just wondering how it worked out. Were the characters nice and crisp or shadowing as they moved? Does the viewing angel come into play in a normal upright game maybe 15 degrees like in a frogger cabinet? Does it look to artificial? I am looking into this as an option and I do not want to be dissapointed with the out come. Thanks in advance.
 
Very crisp. Very sharp.

And, as a result, makes the classic games look like crap.
 
Crap because they are to good? or fake? All the crt monitors I have left have alot of screen burn. It is not as easy to find monitors like previous years. And my local supplier of new crt's does not carry them anymore. I am just looking for other options.
 
Crap because they are to good? or fake? All the crt monitors I have left have alot of screen burn. It is not as easy to find monitors like previous years. And my local supplier of new crt's does not carry them anymore. I am just looking for other options.

get regular monitors and repair them. if they need tubes , swap the tubes out from old tv sets
1980's vintage woodgrain tvs from junk dealers, free in alleys on garbage days and from sally ann thrift stores are a great source. simple frame and yoke swap , and you are there
 
The new digital CRT in the Missile Command (beating a dead horse here since I've already spoken about this way too much) made me see what's up with LCD vs CRT.

The natural screen glow from a CRT softens big pixels in a way that no artificial anti aliasing or screen masks can do in MAME and I don't even know if that's an option for multi boards.

MAME can kind of sort of slightly mask the problem, but a bright, clean CRT has a halo/glow effect due to the nature of shooting electrons at phosphorus that cannot be accurately emulated (yet).

That said, I will stick with LCD for my MAME cabinet (scratch built - no classics killed) for the time being as it's cheap and plentiful - but for anything in a classic cabinet I have become a convert for CRT's. As long as we can still buy them or repair them, that is.
 
Very crisp. Very sharp.

And, as a result, makes the classic games look like crap.

Ditto. The new LCD's have limiters to keep the brightness uniform and blah. If used in a game that is designed for LCD (or even VGA) output, then they look okay. For a game that was designed for CRT's and the brightness of those type of monitors, they look blah in my opinion.

But I have seen them done for the 48-in-1. In fact, i had to fix a broken LC in a 48-in-1 POS custom job some guy bought off the internet...
 
I seen LCD in xx- in 1. I think they are nice. You gave to be really anal to complain over the difference. xx-in-1 is about a fix to play the classics in 1 cab. LCD is perfect for them. Save CRT's for the real games :)

Kevin
 
Put one in a 60-1 I built since I didn't have a spare CRT at the time. Lame to the experienced person - otherwise yes they work and are a cheap way to get your rig built and up and going. Your normal Joe wouldn't know the difference.
 
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