Jolt Country

I sent my 13" monitor to a guy who couldn't fix it. The flyback was smoking on it. I'm tempted to just put an LCD screen in it. The thing doubles as my JAMMA test cabinet.

I don't know why, but the LCD arcade screens I've seen look soooooo shitty. Due to the inability to put black together. It's not like that on my monitors for my computers, why are "arcade" ones so shitty?

I dunno. Buying a 13" over the Internet would be agony.

They're probably TN panels, which have notoriously shitty black levels. They have less ghosting issues than other LCD panel types though, which I guess is why they're used for arcades.

It's frustrating, definitely. CRTs are so expensive, too. A guy was selling some new old stock 13" monitors on the KLOV arcade site for $250 plus shipping and they went quickly. Nnnngh.

It might be impossible to find an LCD that's actually decent at that size. You'd need to get one that:

* Is not using a TN panel.
* Does not have severe ghosting.
* Is able to sync with non-standard timings.
* Doesn't frame-skip when using non-standard timing.

You can find such monitor in 19" and up sizes. But for 13", well good luck with that :-P

Well, if I can get a "new" Vision Pro (meaning, it could be used, but Vision Pro were the monitors everyone was going to before CRTs stopped being produced) then it's worth .... I don't know. $200 shipped, I guess? Someone might have one locally.

It's like, what would I pay to have Ghosts n' Goblins running again.

Well, that's cheap then. Because an almost-equivalent LCD would cost you at least twice that much. For an LCD to be "almost equivalent" to a CRT, it needs to have a panel type with good colors, good contrast, low response times, and offer backlight strobing. Like the Eizo FG2421.