Just started looking a little at how to actually make the content for LCD for a custom pinball machine, and thought of asking here;
What type of program are people using, and how do you put it all together?
Also, I guess the ratio and size is very important to decide before starting so no to having to do much extra work,
are there some "standard" LCD sizes which people here often use?
Any tips or guides are greatly appreciated 
Depends what framework you are using, but I can provide some insight from experience with Buffy and some other things...
The most popular LCDs used are the same physical LCD panel used in Color DMD sized at 15.4", with a resolution of 1920x1080 --the common usable aspect ratio based on the speaker panel cut (visible space) is 2
--a standard dmd cutout is 4, so just route the opening to be twice the height my increasing by about half the height above and below.
Your resolution depends on the framework. In the case of SkeletonGame/PyProcGameHD the limiting factor tends to be the gpu and available VRAM. People use it scaled up using hardware pixel doubling (eg, Buffy runs at 450x225 with a 4x scaler), I believe Eric said ironman HD runs at full HD. You find lots of options in between. Doom is running half of 1920x1080 (running at 2x scale). I don't recall what resolution Josh is running on Casino but it might be the same as doom.
If you don't want a standard sized head/translite, Scott's Total Annihilation is running the full sized panel, as is Nightmare before Christmas.
I have a post on the pinballcontrollers forum which documents my media tools and workflow but that's old and I'll bet what Eric is doing with Ironman HD might be smarter
I am planning on trying mission framework, dunno if that hs something for working with the video content? Will have to read some more of their documentation.
Is it standard 15.4" lcd monitor or is it some special lcd panel? On ebay i only find lcd panel for laptop, looks like a replacement screen only.
Quoted from Edenecho:Is it standard 15.4" lcd monitor or is it some special lcd panel? On ebay i only find lcd panel for laptop, looks like a replacement screen only.
http://www.pinballlife.com/index.php?p=product&id=4179
http://www.pinballlife.com/index.php?p=product&id=4006
http://www.pinballlife.com/index.php?p=product&id=4175
Thanks! It seems like the second link contains the items in the first and third link?
What is Eric's username, i cant seem to find the iron man thread again :O
Those links seem broken.
Here's one that shows a generic displays search page
http://www.pinballlife.com/index.php?p=catalog&parent=18&pg=1
Can you not just use a 27" monitor like JJP does? Was hoping to use that and clips from the tv show for my own project.
Quoted from GotAQuestion:Can you not just use a 27" monitor like JJP does? Was hoping to use that and clips from the tv show for my own project.
Of course you can. It just depends how custom your head is and what you want to do.
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