ZXman1000 Posted June 19, 2020 Share Posted June 19, 2020 So I managed to get my hands on a Stretch bar LCD for a a good price. Problem is its a pretty decent size one. 38" wide. Its a 1920X540 I think (had it hooked up but have since put in back in the box). The outside dimensions of it are 38 1/16" W by 11 1/8" H. Picture of it running DK marquee attached. My question is what the proper TV size should be for screen size to match up to the Marquee properly. I found a TCL brand 43" 4K TV that has a width of 38.2". If I drop to a 40" TV its 35.6" wide but also only 1080P. Not sure what would be better for setting up the cabinet. Cost wise they are only $30 difference. Obviously not trying to make it look exactly like a cabinet from the arcade but want to make sure it has the basic look. I am running an optiplex 9020 with an i5 and 16gigs of RAM. I have a GTX 1050ti GPU running the monitors. Is a 4K TV even needed? Worth it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro808 Posted June 19, 2020 Share Posted June 19, 2020 14 minutes ago, ZXman1000 said: So I managed to get my hands on a Stretch bar LCD for a a good price. Problem is its a pretty decent size one. 38" wide. Its a 1920X540 I think (had it hooked up but have since put in back in the box). The outside dimensions of it are 38 1/16" W by 11 1/8" H. Picture of it running DK marquee attached. My question is what the proper TV size should be for screen size to match up to the Marquee properly. I found a TCL brand 43" 4K TV that has a width of 38.2". If I drop to a 40" TV its 35.6" wide but also only 1080P. Not sure what would be better for setting up the cabinet. Cost wise they are only $30 difference. Obviously not trying to make it look exactly like a cabinet from the arcade but want to make sure it has the basic look. I am running an optiplex 9020 with an i5 and 16gigs of RAM. I have a GTX 1050ti GPU running the monitors. Is a 4K TV even needed? Worth it? Proper would likely be what fits best in the cabinet size you build. There is no standard to the marquee image size that users create so there is no way to properly size based of those dimensions. Just like the marquees used on real cabinets varied in size as well. If you can get a 4K for a good price go for it. There are not a ton of 4K marquee images flying around so I do not see a need for it. With the exception of 1 marquee (21:9 4K) all my others are 1080p stretched lcd and visually they look just a nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZXman1000 Posted June 19, 2020 Author Share Posted June 19, 2020 The marquee size is 38 wide. I think it's 1080p equivalent. It is the main screen I'm asking about. I have not built the cabinet yet trying to get the internals first. Just trying to figure out if I want to add little bit of bezel to the sides of main screen to match width of marquee or go with TV that's already same. Also is a 4k main screen better or worse then 1080 keeping in mind my hardware. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro808 Posted June 19, 2020 Share Posted June 19, 2020 Dang, I completely misread the sentence you specified that in. I would recommend a screen just slightly smaller that way you have some sort of bezel. It gives it that arcade cabinet look/feel. The screen was always smaller width wise than the marquee. I would say the same with 4K for a main screen, not necessary, but if you can get one at a good price. Old consoles and arcade games were not 4K. There are some emulators pushing 4K on games like Cemu and there are even 4K patches in Teknoparrot for some modern pc based arcade games. Oh and of course pc games that can run in 4K. So it has its uses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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