From: pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net
bitrex wrote:
> On 2/18/2026 7:47 PM, Don Y wrote:
>> On 2/18/2026 5:09 PM, John Robertson wrote:
>>> On 2026-02-18 11:54 a.m., Don Y wrote:
>>>> On 2/17/2026 11:21 PM, John Robertson wrote:
>>>>> On 2026-02-17 9:05 p.m., Don Y wrote:
>>>>>> Is it (are they) WG monitors? I would assume there is aftermarket
>>>>>> support
>>>>>> for these as they were *so* common.
>>>>>
>>>>> Electrohome monitors.
>>>>
>>>> Canada?
>>>
>>> These were the best of the 19" monitors and were used extensively by
>>> all US arcade manufacturers. Wells Gardner seemed to be the 2nd choice
>>> monitor and then others when they couldn't order enough of those two.
>>
>> I only recall using EH for vectorscan monitors. They made one that
>> was fast enough that you could actually emulate a raster! (but noisey
>> as hell when you were hammering on the deflection amplifiers)
>>
>>>>> It's the aftermarket that looks like it is stopping production of
>>>>> all flybacks...
>>>>
>>>> If you are doing this to maintain machines on a route, then
>>>> a fix may just be to pick up scrap arcade pieces and part
>>>> them out.
>>>
>>> Nah, this is for collectors and home owners.
>>
>> Then money is less of an object.
>>
>>>> If you are doing this to cater to "home sales", then LCD
>>>> upgrades may be a better route (as they likely won't shit
>>>> the bed and need future servicing)
>>>
>>> Yes, LCDs will work if you can find any 4:3s any more! They are
>>> getting expensive...
>>
>> You could always make a bezel that crops the displayed area.
>
> That plus there are GPU shaders that can emulate scanlines, color bleed,
> and other CRT artifacts pretty well, run the video output through some
> post-processing for that "tube" feel..
>
>
Eric the LCD!
“I picked him out of thousands. I didn’t like the others, they were all
too flat.“
(Apologies to John Cleese.)
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
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