Using a professional video monitor for arcade

valexv

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I have a plan to buy a professional monitor (like one used in the broadcast industry), decase it, and put it in my arcade cabinet. Since these monitors have RGB and sometimes even VGA inputs, I assume they will work great as arcade monitors. My question is, will this actually work or will I be wasting my time and money? These seem to be cheaper than arcade monitors these days, so I figured it might save me a lot of money. A specific one I'm looking at right now is a 25" Sony PVM 2530. Anyone have experience with these monitors? Will they work in all three (CGA/EGA/VGA) modes?
 
This should work out great for you. you may want to check out the monitor/video section at B.Y.O.A.C. forum as they deal with a lot more of this sort of thing over there.
 
JROK makes an awesome video encoder that does Component output, but I think it's for standard resolution games only.

stay away from that bogus Jammaboards CGA/EGA/VGA converter.

if you run standard res with a JROK board, it'll look nice on one of these setups, but as mentioned, this kind of falls more in line with those freaky deaky MAME people at: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php ;)

where do you get one of these btw? I have a little 13" TV hooked up to my comp for previewing my video editing, got anything that size that's portable to rig up to a video camera?
 
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