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Re: Update
11/05/12 07:00 AM
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I've done quotes on these a few times. Completely possible to do, but nowhere near cost effective any time I checked. Just to get the monitor thorough a bulk run and sell it at cost was $400+ per, and you were basically buying a larger screen and having it cut down. It isn't a cheap process to cut existing LCD's, and nobody was producing them direct in a comparable size.
I always suspected the cost would come down if the market for higher res marquees ever picked up.
> Per their sales rep: > > "Thanks for your enquiry for our EW007, 19” stretched LCD monitor. > > We are currently in the process of reissuing part numbers for our stretched displays, > and the EW007 is soon to become the MO-190-001-EW-1000. > > These displays are made by laser cutting larger panels, in order to gain this unique > aspect ratio." > > Upon telling them I only wanted a price on one: > > "Unfortunately we cannot support the project, they are custom built and cannot be > made for a single unit, we have to order in multiples of 10." > > So good news and bad news. The good news: krick, it looks like they CAN make ANY size > of panel monitor you need. The bad news: I won't be able to get one of these any time > soon unless some arcade distributor orders a bunch of them and resells them. Maybe > when my inheritance comes in, I can buy ten and keep five or six for my own use and > sell the other four. > > They DID give me another follow-up email that I've contacted. We'll see what they > say. Maybe it's a reseller that already has them in stock.
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