[M_Infinity]

As the title suggests. I need a monitor of the description above for a Cocktail cabinet (sit-down), so the viewing angle needs to be good as I will be sitting at a fairly steep angle to the bottom of it.

I have heard of a trick where you can upside down mount the lcd giving you a better viewing angle but would rather get one with a decent viewing angle straight out the box. Anything anyone can recommend?

I don't want to use a CRT and arcade monitors are stupidly overpriced.

[dperque]

What did you end up with? I'm in the same position. My CRT trinitron crapped out and want to go LCD, but wasn't sure about refresh rates and if I could just use a 16:9 and it would crop instead of stretch.
thanks.

[EndlessWaves]

Originally Posted by dperque

What did you end up with? I'm in the same position. My CRT trinitron crapped out and want to go LCD, but wasn't sure about refresh rates and if I could just use a 16:9 and it would crop instead of stretch.
thanks.

Resizing depends on the monitor but many will offer you the option to use 1:1, aspect scaling or stretch.. If in doubt you can usually find the manual detailing the monitor's controls on their websites.

What are the concerns you have about refresh rate?

[dperque]

I don't know. I remember something about older games having a slow refresh rate and the newer monitors not handling that well.
I guess my main concern is around viewing angle since this is a cocktail.
Was thinking something like this -
Viewsonic 19" monitor - VP930b

Thanks. I was just fishing for a particular spec or menu option if it was to be used for mame.

[EndlessWaves]

Originally Posted by dperque

I don't know. I remember something about older games having a slow refresh rate and the newer monitors not handling that well.

I'm not into the arcade scene but I would imagine the emulator should be able to handle any special rendering requirements. Films are the same, they run at 24Hz so don't easily map to a 60hz monitor but media player software does the jiggery pokery.

The VP930b was an Au Optronics VA screen wasn't it? If so the viewing angles should be decent and I believe that generation suffered fairly minimal black crush.