2 person bartop cabinet
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I have plans for a 2 person bar top cabinet. I wanted to get everyone's thoughts on whether i should put a HD tv in or a computer monitor. I will be playing mostly NES, SNES and MAME roms on it.
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whether i should put a HD tv in or a computer monitor.
Typically computer monitors are better suited for bartop arcade cabinets (especially monitors with 1ms response times) but there might be few HD tvs that will work as well.
I will be playing mostly NES, SNES and MAME roms on it.
Most of those games that you'll be playing are going to be a 4:3 ratio so you don't even need a wide screen monitor. You could just use a full screen monitor. My friend put a nice CRT monitor in his arcade cabinet. He swears games look more "authentic" on those old CRT monitors and they usually have better response times vs the average LCD.
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Computer monitor, for the sold reason that TV's only come in 16:9 ratio anymore, and old games are 4:3 and look best on that shape of monitor (so you don't get weird stretching or black bars). You can get really nice 4:3 and 5:4 ratio monitors on PCliquidations.com for pretty cheap.
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