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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.