Monitor Resolution questions

Mike7599

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Hey everyone I have a question about how monitor resolutions work. Does resolution depend on the picture tube or just the chassis that outputs the picture? For example, I have a EGA monitor that has killer screen burn. I was thinking of doing a tube and yoke swap. But I just wanted to make sure that any picture tube will do? Is a picture tube just simply a tube and will output whatever the chassis is capable of? Or is there anything internally that deals with the refresh rate?

Another question speaking of refresh rates, I have a moral kombat cabinet, which I believe is 24k (ega) resolution. If I wanted to add an additional jamma board to this cabinet am I limited to a game that outputs ega resolution, or is it ok to put in a regular 15k game? Any advice would be great thanks guys.
 
Chassis is what you need to worry about with resolution. You cant put any chassis on any tube... Definitely not for a beginner

All MK's are standard res
 
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Yes, a TV tube is Std. Whereas many Arcade games were better IE Medium

But a tube from a TV will work with a 24KHz chassis, it will not be as good a picture, due to the screen only capable of displaying a lower dot per inch (IE: Standard)

A yoke swap will certainly mean an advanced level of skills is needed to converge the 3 guns again, if that's what you do
 
Chassis is what you need to worry about with resolution. You cant put any chassis on any tube.

Chassis AND yoke. You can't put a medium-res chassis on a standard-res yoke - or vice-versa - and get it to work.

And I've read that some tubes ARE made as medium-res compatible (the med-res 19" K7000, for instance, has a tube number that starts with M to distinguish it), but I'm not sure if it is definitely incompatible with standard-res, or whether it just needs a standard-res yoke swapped on...
 
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