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Looking for suggestions for LCD monitors for Rush 2049 project...

Unfortunately it was pretty typical performance for IPS LCDs of that era to be pretty slow. At the time, IPS was just starting to become affordable, and offered much better color accuracy and viewing angle compared to TN, but they suffered from slower response times and mediocre black/contrast level performance (they even had the nickname "IPS Glow" for it). Overclocking and pixel overdriving was sometimes an option (not for 16:10 30" panels, I checked), but that would introduce overshoot ghosting which would potentially cause even worse blur.

The only reason to use 30" 16:10 monitors is for the vertical fit. Just about any modern LCD will blow them out of the water in any other performance metric.

In terms of 30" models other than the U3011, my guess is that performance will be similar, but I never used or tested them before so I can't say for sure.
 
That one Dell monitor you mention as being recent seems to like it could be pretty good, but it's like $600 if you can find one in stock lol.

I also saw there is a 3:2 28" BenQ monitor that seems to have some decent specs but same thing - its like $600.

I may just see about getting one of those 16:10 ones and see how it performs with a PC. There is a guy somewhat local selling that HP monitor and is asking $175 for it but I may ask him if he'd take $100 and just take the gamble.
 
Do they even make a 27" 16:10 monitors? I saw a pic on KLOV someone posted of a 24" 16:10 monitor in a racing cab with the same bezel as mine I believe (Fast and Furious Tokyo Drift) and it looked pretty damn good. I am guessing that he went with 24" since they don't make 27", which I've had no luck finding so far in google.
 
27" 16:10 is not a thing afaik.

You can use something like panelook.com to try and find nonstandard LCDs or other flat panels if you want, although that doesn't mean you will find something you can purchase even if you did.

I've gone down this road before of looking for weird displays many times, and my suggestion to you is to just treat it as a fun mental exercise (in the same way as thinking about what to buy after winning the lottery), and don't expect to find much.

At the end of the day, you have 2 choices: An old 30" LCD that will fit better vertically, or a 27-32" modern display that won't fit right, but is cheaper, more available, and much better performing. Anything else is likely a waste of time, unless you have enough know-how to source your own LCD and design a custom display board. Not an impossible task, after all Unico and Arcooda has basically done this with varying amounts of success. It's just unlikely to ever be worth the trouble and engineering time.

Speaking of which, that reminds me that Arcooda supposedly will offer a bunch of different 4:3 arcade focused displays if you can swing the price and likely long wait times. Unfortunately last I recall they had to cancel several potential products due to parts reaching EOL before they were able to go into production.
 
Zepherino said:
27" 16:10 is not a thing afaik.

You can use something like panelook.com to try and find nonstandard LCDs or other flat panels if you want, although that doesn't mean you will find something you can purchase even if you did.

I've gone down this road before of looking for weird displays many times, and my suggestion to you is to just treat it as a fun mental exercise (in the same way as thinking about what to buy after winning the lottery), and don't expect to find much.

At the end of the day, you have 2 choices: An old 30" LCD that will fit better vertically, or a 27-32" modern display that won't fit right, but is cheaper, more available, and much better performing. Anything else is likely a waste of time, unless you have enough know-how to source your own LCD and design a custom display board. Not an impossible task, after all Unico and Arcooda has basically done this with varying amounts of success. It's just unlikely to ever be worth the trouble and engineering time.

Speaking of which, that reminds me that Arcooda supposedly will offer a bunch of different 4:3 arcade focused displays if you can swing the price and likely long wait times. Unfortunately last I recall they had to cancel several potential products due to parts reaching EOL before they were able to go into production.
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Yesterday someone showed me this example they have, and Fast and Furious Tokyo Drift has the same exact bezel as my Rush 2049 cabinet has:

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This is a 24" 16:10 monitor. That looks very clean and nearly stock IMO. I guess I never really thought about how much wider a larger LCD would be though. I would really prefer to NOT have to do any modifications to the bezel (unless I grabbed the modified ones from CamoYoshi and messed with those, which is still on the table).

I have a 27" monitor I use here for work that is 16:9 and the width of just the screen without the bezel is 23.5" wide, and the width of the bezel on my cabinet is like 21.5" wide, so even with a 27" monitor, the full width of the screen will not fit flush so I'd have to either set it back a bit or modify the cabinet.
 
I was just doing some googling and came across 2 25.5" 1900x1200 monitors that may be solid candidates, if I can find any, as they are old of course.

Asus VW266H
Samsung T260

These are 25.5" and the dimensions make me think that the screen would basically fill the entire area pretty flush. It's kind of hard to measure the bezel with the curved monitor in there to get it super precise, but ballpark it looks like that could be a perfect fit basically. I need to find if the specs I've seen are the measurements of the screen or of the full unit with bezel.
 
Ziggy Cheetos Dust said:
@purbeast have you been following the development of the Arcooda 4:3 LCD arcade monitors? They’ve had some setbacks with supply chain and tariff challenges but it’s the best chance arcade collectors have at replacing CRTs.

https://www.arcooda.com/buy/26-inch...nitor-15khz-24khz-31khz-up-to-1600x1200-20181

The 29” won’t ship until the end of the year though.

https://www.arcooda.com/
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Yeah I had heard about those but the price alone is going to turn me off. Those also don't do 1080p resolution so the modern games wouldn't be in 1080p on there.

I am in pursuit of a 25.5" 16:10 monitor right now and have a few leads. If I end up getting one (or two) I'll update with how they fit and how it went with them.

My laptop here is 16:10 and I was just looking at some 4:3 and 16:9 content on here and the bars on the tops/sides is pretty minimal so I think that would be the best of both worlds.
 
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