Reliving the Arcade: Making your own home arcade

[HoloDust]

Pemalite said:

The only *viable* alternative to the venerable CRT in arcades is... Projectors.

You can build a box with a rear-projection-like setup, hardest part would be the calibration and sourcing of an appropriate semi-translucent display that will diffuse light appropriately.
But like the CRT it won't be pixel-perfect, which assists with some of the "tricks" games used to leverage like checkerboard sprites to simulate translucency for water by leveraging the natural blurring of a CRT.

But like LCD will have a degree of input lag... And brightness will be lower, so a high output projector is a must.

Yeah, I was reading fairly recently about laser projectors/TVs and was wondering if that might be the answer in the future.

I've heard there was some new CRTs from China, but haven't figured out if it they were newly produced to meet retro gaming demands, or it was some old stock.

After scouring the net for some time, I found out that, apparently, to produce new CRTs it's not so much tech itself that is the problem, but the lack of people who know how to use it and assemble them.